Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Mar 1999 20:05:53 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: CDROM ioctl errors in 2.0.36 |
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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???
-- * Jens Axboe <axboe@image.dk> * Linux CD-ROM Maintainer
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