[nflug] Question about a process accessing my cdrom

JJ Neff jjneff at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 19 19:32:25 EDT 2005


No it is fine right now - I think it's either when I mount or when I use
burning software - of course the errors are way after I'm done and ahve closed
all apps and have umounted and removed any media...

JJ

--- Josh Johnson <joshj at linuxmail.org> wrote:

> Will you cdrom still do that at the bootloader? If it does, then I'd think 
> its a bad cdrom drive.
> 
> -JoshJ
> http://lotuseaters.no-ip.com
> 
> On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, JJ Neff wrote:
> 
> >
> > /dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   iso9660 ro,user,noauto,users,exec  0      
> 0
> > #/dev/hdc       /media/cdrom0   auto
> > umask=0,user,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,users,noauto,ro,exec      0
> > 0
> > /dev/hdd        /media/cdrom1   iso9660 ro,user,noauto,users,exec  0      
> 0
> > #/dev/hdd       /media/cdrom1   auto
> > umask=0,user,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,users,noauto,ro,exec      0
> > 0
> > /dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,users,noauto,exec  0      
> 0
> >
> >
> >
> > The commented lines are those that were in during setup - the non-comment
> are
> > those I put in myself.  Yes I have no-auto in there.  Please let me know if
> > anything looks crazy...
> >
> > JJN
> > --- Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:
> >
> >> That would make perfect sense if you don't have the noauto option.
> >>
> >> JJ Neff wrote:
> >>
> >>> I will have to check that out tonight when I am back at PC, I did have to
> >>> reboot for an unrelated event this AM.  (Needed to boot into newest
> kernel
> >> and
> >>> update Nvidia kernel mods) Error stopped upon reboot -- one thing I
> noticed
> >> was
> >>> that the cdrom:open failed was on every console whether I logged in or
> not!
> >>
> >>>
> >>> JJN
> >>>
> >>> --- Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> just an offshoot but do you have the "noauto" option in your fstab?
> >>>>
> >>>> JJ Neff 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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