[nflug] Question about a process accessing my cdrom

[JJ Neff]

Thanks, my nose is bleeding reading the man page
(http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/lsof.8.html)  

:-)

JJN

--- Michael Phillips <linux478 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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
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