[nflug] Question about a process accessing my cdrom

[Michael Phillips]

the command lsof my help

Michael

--- JJ Neff <jjneff at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I know I asked this before but I can't seem to find any of my previosu
> postings.
> 
> My dvdburner is /dev/hdc and it seems that when I use it (not sure if using
> it
> to burn or mounting it to read data is the culprit) it decided to keep
> getting
> accessed.  The drive works in all ways in my apps, but when I open it or type
> "eject cdrom" the tray opens and immediately slides closed.  I have to be
> quick
> popping in those DVD's!
> 
> In dmesg I have a continuous stream of "cdrom:open failed" messages.  An
> fuser
> /dev/hdc, fuser /media/cdrom, fuser /dev/cdrom etc shows nothing.  
> 
> Some ideas on how to find what is trying to open or close the cdrom would be
> helpful.  I disabled automount from the Gnome control panel and am using
> Debian
> testing 2.6.X kernel (with udev).
> 
> I had this before and I believe only restarting was my option then.  I'm
> hoping
> to find a better way?  I'm assuming someone will ask what is in ps -ef but I
> am
> not at machine at the time, so please let me know what specifically may help.
> 
> JJN
> 
> 
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Michael D. Phillips - A computer science enthusiast
I do not hate Windows, I just like the alternatives better.
Linux is my primary choice.


	
		
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