trouble uploading on ubuntu 12.04

Mine matches:

$ ls -l /dev/ttyACM*
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 166, 0 Sep 16 09:41 /dev/ttyACM0

What happens when you start the Arduino IDE from the command line? Do you see what I see, or do we have different RXTX versions?

$ ./arduino 
Experimental:  JNI_OnLoad called.
Stable Library
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Native lib Version = RXTX-2.1-7
Java lib Version   = RXTX-2.1-7

This is very frustrating! I don't know what to do!