Bug#551101: still exists

2010-06-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk [2010.06.21.0120 +0200]:
  I am running 2.6.32 and am faced by exactly this problem on
  a machine I cannot just reboot:
  
% ps aux | egrep -c '\D\.+vgdisplay'
37821
  
  lsof or strace on existing processes don't show anything, but strace
  on a new vgdisplay process shows that it blocks on opening
  /dev/cdrom, which seems to be defective.
 
 Was this a version before or after the libata transition?

I have not really followed the transition, but this is on a lenny
system with a 2.6.32 backports.org kernel. How can I check?

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Bug#551101: still exists

2010-06-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 11:33 +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
 also sprach Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk [2010.06.21.0120 +0200]:
   I am running 2.6.32 and am faced by exactly this problem on
   a machine I cannot just reboot:
   
 % ps aux | egrep -c '\D\.+vgdisplay'
 37821
   
   lsof or strace on existing processes don't show anything, but strace
   on a new vgdisplay process shows that it blocks on opening
   /dev/cdrom, which seems to be defective.
  
  Was this a version before or after the libata transition?
 
 I have not really followed the transition, but this is on a lenny
 system with a 2.6.32 backports.org kernel. How can I check?

We switched from IDE drivers to libata-based drivers in 2.6.32-10.  My
suspicion is that this is a bug in ide-cd which will no longer apply.

Ben.

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Bug#551101: still exists

2010-06-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk [2010.06.21.1211 +0200]:
 We switched from IDE drivers to libata-based drivers in 2.6.32-10.  My
 suspicion is that this is a bug in ide-cd which will no longer apply.

This could very well be. I was running
linux-image-2.6.32-bpo.2-amd64 2.6.32-8~bpo50+1 at the time. With
linux-image-2.6.32-bpo.5-amd64 2.6.32-15~bpo50+1, the problem seems
to have disappeared.

Thanks,

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Bug#551101: still exists

2010-06-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 13:27 +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
 I am running 2.6.32 and am faced by exactly this problem on
 a machine I cannot just reboot:
 
   % ps aux | egrep -c '\D\.+vgdisplay'
   37821
 
 lsof or strace on existing processes don't show anything, but strace
 on a new vgdisplay process shows that it blocks on opening
 /dev/cdrom, which seems to be defective.

Was this a version before or after the libata transition?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.


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Bug#551101: still exists

2010-05-17 Thread martin f krafft
I am running 2.6.32 and am faced by exactly this problem on
a machine I cannot just reboot:

  % ps aux | egrep -c '\D\.+vgdisplay'
  37821

lsof or strace on existing processes don't show anything, but strace
on a new vgdisplay process shows that it blocks on opening
/dev/cdrom, which seems to be defective.

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