[Bug 283316] Re: CD-ROM tray closes automatically after eject

[Erick Brunzell]

Sorry Brian, wasn't thinking clearly ;^(

I had just completed an installation with http://cdimage.ubuntu.com
/daily-live/20111007/oneiric-desktop-i386.iso and after clicking on
restart now (rather than continue testing), the reboot process appeared
to work as normal, but when the disc ejected the tray just automatically
closed.

My first thought was, oh no (with expletives), but I just let the reboot
complete then hit a key to display the boot menu and selected boot from
first hard disc. I then just ejected the disc using the icon on the
desktop and thought all would be fine, but as I continued to try more
tests (this time with Lubuntu images) my optical drive would no longer
consistently eject or retract as it should :^(

I've previously only seen this with Intrepid (which released with this
bug) and Fedora perhaps a year or so ago (don't remember the version,
but I believe I was trying some grub 2 dual/multi-boot scenarios, I
don't commonly use Fedora and I'd think that info is irrelevant here
anyway).

I notice however that there has since been a new release listed on the
iso-tracker: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20111007.1/oneiric-
desktop-i386.iso, so I need to formulate a safe testing plan. After
leaving my testing box shut down nearly all day yesterday the optical
drive seems to be working OK again so I hope I got lucky.

Regarding the "drive breakage", what seems to happen is that something
electronic gets "confused" following this. I don't understand
electronics well enough to understand, but I have both Sony and Lite-on
SATA drives in the closet that no longer work properly after
encountering this with Intrepid and Fedora some time ago. I have a
number of old IDE CD-ROM drives so I may just swap one of those in to
see what happens. I'll report back after more testing.

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Title:
  CD-ROM tray closes automatically after eject

Status in The Linux Kernel:
  Invalid
Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “udev” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “linux” source package in Intrepid:
  Invalid
Status in “udev” source package in Intrepid:
  Fix Released
Status in “udev” package in Fedora:
  In Progress
Status in Gentoo Linux:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: hal

  Ubuntu intrepid ibex beta (updated)

  Problem:
  When I try to eject a cd/dvd, Ubuntu intrepid inserts the cdrom right back in the cd/dvd drive

  Steps to reproduce:
  1) Either by pressing eject button on the device or using the "eject" command or using the eject icon in nautilus sidebar
  2) The dvd is ejected successfully
  3) The dvd is loaded back in right after being ejected. This happens after the message "eject: CD-ROM eject command succeeded" of "eject -v" command.

  Note 1: The cd/dvd-rw drive is a SATA device
  Note 2: This happens while in tty and ubuntu gnome desktop manager

  $ apt-cache policy eject hal
  eject:
    Installed: 2.1.5-9ubuntu2
    Candidate: 2.1.5-9ubuntu2
    Version table:
   *** 2.1.5-9ubuntu2 0
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
  hal:
    Installed: 0.5.11-4ubuntu2
    Candidate: 0.5.11-4ubuntu2
    Version table:
   *** 0.5.11-4ubuntu2 0
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  $ eject -v
  eject: using default device `cdrom'
  eject: device name is `cdrom'
  eject: expanded name is `/dev/cdrom'
  eject: `/dev/cdrom' is a link to `/dev/scd0'
  eject: `/dev/scd0' is mounted at `/media/cdrom0'
  eject: unmounting device `/dev/scd0' from `/media/cdrom0'
  eject: `/dev/scd0' is not a multipartition device
  eject: trying to eject `/dev/scd0' using CD-ROM eject command
  eject: CD-ROM eject command succeeded

  $ sudo lshw -C disk
  [...]
    *-cdrom
         description: DVD-RAM writer
         product: DVD-RW  DVR-212
         vendor: PIONEER
         physical id: 0.0.0
         bus info: scsi at 2:0.0.0
         logical name: /dev/cdrom
         logical name: /dev/cdrw
         logical name: /dev/dvd
         logical name: /dev/dvdrw
         logical name: /dev/scd0
         logical name: /dev/sr0
         logical name: /media/cdrom0
         version: 1.21
         capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram
         configuration: ansiversion=5 mount.fstype=iso9660 mount.options=ro,nosuid,nodev,utf8 state=mounted status=ready
       *-medium
            physical id: 0
            logical name: /dev/cdrom
            logical name: /media/cdrom0
            configuration: mount.fstype=iso9660 mount.options=ro,nosuid,nodev,utf8 state=mounted

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