Mailing List Archive: CDROM Locked

CDROM Locked

Jan 25, 2006, 5:33 AM

Post #1 of 4 (1510 views)

Hi All,

I'm running KnoppMyth (R5A26) with a PVR-150 on an EPIA M10K system. It
is all relatively happy, except the DVD drive seems to lock itself on
occasion.

Myth is running but Xine isn't. You press the eject button on the drive
and it doesn't open. I can force it by ssh'ing in and doing "eject
/dev/cdrom" but thats not so ideal for my other housemates. Thing is, it
doesn't always do it!

Anybody else run into this, before I start digging deeper?

Thanks,

Rob :)

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Re: CDROM Locked [ In reply to ]

robert at fisher

Jan 25, 2006, 10:15 AM

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On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 2:33 am, Robert Coup wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm running KnoppMyth (R5A26) with a PVR-150 on an EPIA M10K system. It
> is all relatively happy, except the DVD drive seems to lock itself on
> occasion.
>
> Myth is running but Xine isn't. You press the eject button on the drive
> and it doesn't open. I can force it by ssh'ing in and doing "eject
> /dev/cdrom" but thats not so ideal for my other housemates. Thing is, it
> doesn't always do it!
>
> Anybody else run into this, before I start digging deeper?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rob :)

I experienced this behaviour and at the same time Xine seemed to "lock-up".

I put it down to my box not being able to handle recording and juggling xine
at the same time.

--
Regards, Robert

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Robert Fisher
(aka - Rob, Bob, Robbie, Robbo, Fish)
FishNet Computer & Electrical Services
www.fisher.net.nz
Phone: 03 383 5807
Mobile: 027 477 3356

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Re: CDROM Locked [ In reply to ]

zilla at paradise

Jan 25, 2006, 11:46 AM

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I recommend doing the following:

To /usr/share/mythtv/dvdmenu.xml (or opticalmenu.xml - I can't remember which
OTOMH) add
<button>
<type>DVD_EJECT</type>
<text>Eject DVD</text>
<action>EXEC eject</action>
</button>

You could also map the Eject button (if there is one on your remote) in lircrc
to irexec

begin
button = EJECT
prog = irexec
repeat = 0
config = eject
end

Quoting Robert Coup <robert2@coup.net.nz>:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm running KnoppMyth (R5A26) with a PVR-150 on an EPIA M10K system. It
>
> is all relatively happy, except the DVD drive seems to lock itself on
> occasion.
>
> Myth is running but Xine isn't. You press the eject button on the drive
>
> and it doesn't open. I can force it by ssh'ing in and doing "eject
> /dev/cdrom" but thats not so ideal for my other housemates. Thing is, it
>
> doesn't always do it!
>
> Anybody else run into this, before I start digging deeper?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rob :)
>
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Re: CDROM Locked [ In reply to ]

nick at rout

Jan 25, 2006, 12:33 PM

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If you want to find out what program is accessing the drive you could
ssh in and run:

lsof |grep /dev/cdrom

lsof= list open files.

On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 02:33:07 +1300
Robert Coup wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm running KnoppMyth (R5A26) with a PVR-150 on an EPIA M10K system. It
> is all relatively happy, except the DVD drive seems to lock itself on
> occasion.
>
> Myth is running but Xine isn't. You press the eject button on the drive
> and it doesn't open. I can force it by ssh'ing in and doing "eject
> /dev/cdrom" but thats not so ideal for my other housemates. Thing is, it
> doesn't always do it!
>
> Anybody else run into this, before I start digging deeper?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rob :)
>
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