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JoeMac42
May 8th, 2010, 01:09 AM
I have a dual-G4 Mac with a recent clean install of Lucid. When I hit the keyboard eject key or try to open the drive door from the command line with "eject /dev/cdrom" to try inserting a CD, the drive door opens then immediately closes before I can insert a CD. I didn't have this issue in Jaunty. Any ideas?
B_Free
May 8th, 2010, 01:39 AM
Mine too. Just another something to fix. Glad it is just not me.
JoeMac42
May 8th, 2010, 06:17 PM
Could anyone recommend tests to narrow down the issue?
linuxopjemac
May 8th, 2010, 07:59 PM
what happens with :

eject
and

eject -t

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1456481&highlight=cd+eject
JoeMac42
May 8th, 2010, 08:53 PM
eject
causes the drive to open and immediately close



eject -t
does nothing



eject -T
causes the drive to open and immediately close
linuxopjemac
May 8th, 2010, 09:11 PM
There is something wrong with this, I have no idea how to solve this. It has to come from upstream (udev).
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/546373
JoeMac42
May 8th, 2010, 10:56 PM
I posted to the launchpad bug, but I'm not sure it is the same issue. The problem there appears to be difficulty ejecting a disk.



There is something wrong with this, I have no idea how to solve this. It has to come from upstream (udev).
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/546373
linuxopjemac
May 8th, 2010, 11:05 PM
can you give the link to the bug report you posted ?
JoeMac42
May 8th, 2010, 11:09 PM
It's in the thread that you provided the link for:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/546373/comments/17



can you give the link to the bug report you posted ?
linuxopjemac
May 8th, 2010, 11:13 PM
It's all with Pioneer drives....
JoeMac42
May 8th, 2010, 11:18 PM
If so, that might be good news for me. There are lots of Pioneer "Superdrives" out there, especially among Macs. Perhaps this might draw some attention for a fix upstream.



It's all with Pioneer drives....
Frobber
May 8th, 2010, 11:20 PM
I'm running a dual boot on an Imac G5. I have a similar problem where the cdrom/dvd cannot be mounted. I have found that is the disk is installed from OSX side then reboot into linux the disk will be recognized and can be mounted.
Unfortunatly, if the cd or dvd is ejected and replaced with another the disk displayed onscreen will contain the name of the disk that was in during boot. When mounted the files will reflect what is on the 'new' disk.
linuxopjemac
May 8th, 2010, 11:22 PM
the problem existed before (also Pioneer, but many other types too):
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/280931
linuxopjemac
May 8th, 2010, 11:29 PM
people are working on it:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453095#c26
JoeMac42
May 9th, 2010, 10:45 PM
I followed instructions there to edit sysctl.conf and add
ev.cdrom.autoclose = 0
to the end. I can now successfully load a cd into the drive, but it does not mount. What should I try next?
linuxopjemac
May 9th, 2010, 10:50 PM
I go to bed now. Maybe I can help you tomorrow. I would ask an2ne. He knows how to do this.
http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=250019
JoeMac42
May 9th, 2010, 11:48 PM
Thanks for the help. I will check back tomorrow.
linuxopjemac
May 11th, 2010, 01:59 PM
I have Lucid Lynx myself now on a spare partition on my PowerBook. When I have the time, I will dive into this.