-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Michael Nottebrock said the following on 10.01.2007 19:07: >> 3. Press eject button on cdrom/dvd drive >> 4. Insert another cd/dvd media >> 5. You won't see new files- you'll see previous cd/dvd files and when you >> doubleklick on some file to open it- you'll experience kernel panic and >> reboot. > > I suppose this really is, for now, a case of "don't do that". It's pretty > similar to just unplugging USB-storage devices, FreeBSD doesn't cope. I am a > bit surprised the drives aren't getting locked at all, but even if they were, > it wouldn't really solve the problem for a number of laptop drives, which > often don't have a lockable tray. > > That said, I think an on-eject event does trickle back up from dbus, so maybe > the drives are actually locked, but unlocked as soon as someone presses the > eject button. For me (on 5.5), pressing the eject button on the drive just > crashes kded, regardless whether the volume is mounted or not. I haven't > heard that reported from anyone else yet, so I suspect it might be a > 5.x-specific issue. > > I'm not sure this can really be fixed on any higher level than in the kernel > itself. FreeBSD probably will have to bite the bullet and just do like > Windows does - if a mounted drive goes missing, discard all open files hard > and somehow cope with it (i.e. don't panic, don't hang). HAL/DBus can then > detect this and berate the user for not "safely removing" the medium and > remind them to better remember next time. IMO it wouldn't be so bad overall - > the unix userland is usually pretty good in handling suddenly disappearing > files and devices, especially if they were read-only in the first place. > >> Same problem happens if you select Eject menu from drive icon without >> unmounting it first. > > For me, the eject context menu entry (in the media:/ view) doesn't work at > all > before unmounting the volume. >
On my 6.2-PRERELEASE box with KDE-3.5.5 i have a total system freezing on 5th operation. And cdtray is not locked. - -- Best regards, Simon Phoenix (Phoenix Lab.) - --------------------------------------------------------------- KeyID: 0x2569D30B Fingerprint: 78FC 5C40 07CC D331 148E CC79 84B8 D514 2569 D30B - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFp+ZRhLjVFCVp0wsRCjleAKDdO9tbOkwOLU7r1jKFw2SOTzyb7ACdHvZy ZwDQbaowHMkhTRYC0/wzZ9I= =ouPb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ kde-freebsd mailing list [email protected] http://kf.liquidneon.com/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd
