Re: 'eject' process stuck in "D" state

Jens Axboe
2001-12-20T11:39:27Z

On Thu, Dec 20 2001, A Guy Called Tyketto wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 12:23:25PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 20 2001, A Guy Called Tyketto wrote:
> > >
> > > Hate to be an old bugger and bring this up again, but I just had this
> > > old problem show up again, with 2.5.1-dj3. The scoop:
> >
> > Were you using sr or ide-cd when this happened? There seems to be stuff
> > missing from the kernel messages you included, could you please check
> > dmesg for all of it.
> >
> > Don't worry, it's no shocker if eject isn't working :-)
>
> Sorry.. forgot to include that as well. Here's my lsmod output
> revelant to the problem, at the time of it happening:
>
> ide-cd 26816 0 (autoclean)
> sr_mod 13524 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> cdrom 29344 0 (autoclean) [ide-cd sr_mod]
> scsi_mod 71544 1 (autoclean) [sr_mod]
>
> I manually tried the CD drive's eject button, and of course,
> it didn't work. The kernel hadn't freed up the device, so
> there's no reason why it wouldn't have worked.

Great so it could be either, you're really not giving any new
information here :-)

Please tell me what /dev/* is opened by the cd player program and please
include the kernel message as asked, thanks.

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Jens Axboe