[lug] Repeating cdrom log message

[Gary Hodges]

Hugh Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 09:52:32AM -0700, Gary Hodges wrote:
>> I just discovered this repeating in my log files.  Doesn't seem to matter 
>> if I mount a disk or not, or comment out the entry in fstab. Just keeps 
>> repeating every second.
>>
>> Mar  4 09:50:58 space kernel: [17180143.444000] cdrom: This disc doesn't 
>> have any tracks I recognize!
>> Mar  4 09:50:59 space kernel: [17180144.452000] cdrom: This disc doesn't 
>> have any tracks I recognize!
>> Mar  4 09:51:00 space kernel: [17180145.460000] cdrom: This disc doesn't 
>> have any tracks I recognize!
>> Mar  4 09:51:01 space kernel: [17180146.468000] cdrom: This disc doesn't 
>> have any tracks I recognize!
> 
> Memory says that there's a process trying to automagically do something with the CD and it can't figure out what to do, but it keeps trying, used to be magicdev under gnome but it's probably udev now.
> 
> Is there a physical CD in the drive?  Does "fuser /dev/cdrom" (or whatever device the log is complaining about) return any processes (e.g. something that got hung)?

I get the error with or without media in the drive, and with or without 
mounting said media.  I didn't know about the fuser command.  It did 
return a process and I killed it and that stopped the error messages 
stopped.  Thanks for the tip.

Cheers,
Gary