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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.

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Simon Phoenix (Phoenix Lab.)
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