Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Jul 1999 11:05:47 +0300 | From | Ville Herva <> | Subject | Linux cd eject bug |
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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@image.dk> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 00:18:09 +0200 Subject: Re: ejecting a mounted CD (linux 2.2.10; vmware 1.02)
> On Sun, Jul 04 1999, Weasel wrote: > > [1.] One line summary of the problem: > > I could eject a mounted CD. The problem occurs iff vmware has been > > run at least once. > > Take it up with the VMWare people first, then let me know they > point the other direction. > > - -- > * Jens Axboe <axboe@image.dk> > * Linux CD-ROM Maintainer
I had a quite opposite problem with 2.2.10 (stock). I was playing an audio cd with xmms, and after a while xmms hung. Xplaycd still play the cd as would just pressing play on the cd drive, too. I could even extract data with cdda2wav.
But the cd would not eject.
I looked at the listing fuser /dev/cdrom gave to me, it showed a few of the xmms prosesses (it launches 4-5) were using the device. Nobody else.
So I kill -HUP'ed the xmms prosesses. I killed them. I even killall -KILL'ed xmms as root dozens of times. One xmms process was still using the device, and another xmms process was in zombie state. eject -f or hitting the eject button on the drive anything I tried did not help.
So basicly I could not get the cd out without reboot.
I realise this report is of poor value as such, the situation is propably impossible to reproduce for you, and possibly hard to produce for me, too.
However, I would like to know if there is something I could do to debug this if it reoccurs.
The drive is a crappy Cyber Drive 24x with which I've had other difficulties. While playing audio it sounds like it was crunching stones ( the audio signal -- although the drive itself sounds like that too. The sound can sometimes be remedied by tapping and shaking the drive, which would suggest a mechanism fault or something. This weird, because cdda2wav usually rips quite well -- never these kind of noises.)
This time, though, I don't think it was the drives fault, since it happily ejected the cd as soon as I rebooted the machine.
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