With our without a CD in the drive, my system is accessing the CD every second or so. Does this sound familiar? How do I stop it? If you don't know that, how can I find out what process is accessing the CD?
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This used to happen to people occasionally back in the days of the early 2.4 kernels, but I haven't seen it since. I've also forgotten what caused it, if I ever knew.Does this sound familiar?Use "top" from a konsole, or ksysguard from the gui. Then kill the offending process.how can I find out what process is accessing the CD?
My guess would be that it's trying (unsuccessfully) to automount. In which case, the villain is something in the ivman, hal, or udev family. -
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Thanks for the reply. I tried top and ksysguard and can see the list of proceses, but I don't know how to determine which one is accessing the CD. What am I missing?Comment
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Some process will be taking up a LOT of time. Usually the top process in top in an idling machine switches between two or three different processes (one of which may be top). If you've got the same process at the top of the list every time that's a good candidate for the bad guy. Also, did you see hald, or ivman among the most active processes?Comment
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There are 5 processers with hald-*. When I killed a process called hald-addon-stor, it stopped acessing the CD. What next?Comment
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Frankly, I don't know enough about either hal (the Hardware Abstraction Layer) or ivman (Ikke's Volume MANager) to suggest a fix. I can tell you that the only hal config file I found on my system was /etc/ha/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi. There are also four configuration files in /etc/ivman. All five of these files are filled with examples of how to control mounting or playing media. I suspect that the real solution to your porblem is in one of those five files. I wish I could be more positive.Comment
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When I have a little more time this weekend, I will dig into the files and see if I can fix it. You were a great help in narrowing the search. If I find a solution, I will post it in this thread. Thanks.Comment
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I don't have a process called ivman in the process table. I don't think that has anything to do with my problem.
I have two processes call hald-addon-stor. Based on feedback in this thread, I killed those processes and the constant accessing of the CD stopped. I am not sure how to determine which of the two is the problem. I looked at the fdi file mentioned in the previous post, but an answer did not jump out at me. I am going to do some more searching and if I don't find anything, I guess I will open a bug report.Comment
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I too have the same issue...and temporarily resolved it by killing the two hald-addon-stor deamons. Of course, I lost my CD/DVD capability. I went wading through config files, but since I am new to Linux, dont know exactly what to look for. Here is my log entry:
11/11/2006 08:41:37 PM localhost kernel [17180494.912000] hdc: error code: 0x70 sense_key: 0x02 asc: 0x30 ascq: 0x00
To start with something simple, here is my /etc/fstab entry:
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
a person on the kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com suggested a laptop-power issue, however when I disabled the service in KSysV editor, it did not stop the issue.Comment
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I went surfing the forums and discovered that someone mounted their cd/dvd drive using this line in the fstab:
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,atime,noauto,ro,dev,exec,suid 0 0
rather than:
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
I implemented it and it worked for me. Try it and hopefully you won't need to pull your hair out anymore.Comment
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For anyone accessing this thread, if you own an HP/Compaq with a lightscribe disk, go to this thread in the Ubuntu forums:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ighlight=cdrom
this should help resolve the issue.
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