Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Oct 2008 08:48:19 +0100 | From | "Tom Spink" <> | Subject | Re: CD tray closes spontaneously after opening it |
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2008/9/30 Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote: >> On Tuesday 30 September 2008, Kay Sievers wrote: >>> Does: >>> /sbin/udevadm monitor --env >>> print something while you see the tray closing? >> >> I was somewhat lucky to reproduce it with that running and there was no >> output during the open or close. I guess that rules out udev? > > I think so, yes. > >> I still don't know how to reliably reproduce this. It seems that after it >> has occurred once, it will not occur again unless the system is rebooted. >> But I'm not 100% sure of that. >> >> Most times I've seen it was after playing a DVD when ejecting the disc to >> put it back in its box, but not when the DVD was inserted earlier. >> But I've also seen it shortly after the system is booted when just opening >> the tray with no media inserted. >> >> Just to be clear: until recently the drive has always behaved perfectly in >> the same situations. >> >>> Does this also happen when you set: >>> /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/autoclose >>> to 0? >> >> I'll set that on boot using /etc/sysctl.conf and will report if I can >> still reproduce with that setting. I've checked that the "normal" value >> is 1. > > That will prevent the closing, when something tries to open the device > in blocking mode. If that solves the issue, you should start looking > which process tries to access your drive. > > Kay > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
Hi Kay,
If you can manage to reproduce this, can you try/have you tried different kernel versions?
-- Tom Spink
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