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SubjectRe: CDROM ioctl errors in 2.0.36
On Tue, Mar 30 1999, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> Every time I use KDE's CD player, my system is constantly giving
> CDROM errors every time I use the CD for anything else.
>
> Scenario: I run KDE, use the CD player to play an audio CD. If
> I eject the CD with the program, or with the actual button, I end
> up getting a stream of errors printed on my console. The only
> way to stop this is to put an AUDIO CD into the thing. I'm
> assuming that KDE's CD player is the thing that needs repair
> here. Nonetheless, it is annoying that a user mode program can
> dump tonnes of error messages to my console, as WELL as my
> syslog, which IMHO opens the doors for DoS attacks.
>
> If this is a kernel issue, let me know how to fix it. If it is
> an application issue, how can I fix it at the kernel or syslog
> level? I really could not care less if there is no CD in the
> CDROM and the CDplayer software insists on telling me that there
> is no CD every 5 seconds or whatever - even though I never told
> it to look for a CD in the first place...
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Could we see what gets dumped to the logs???

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* Jens Axboe <axboe@image.dk>
* Linux CD-ROM Maintainer

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