Re: [PLUG] Optical drive driving me crazy

John, Rebooting showed that it wasn't a hardware problem. It could be a kernel bug, or other software problem. Next time it occurs,... things that might help... I suspect the need is to find what app still has an open file on that filesystem. Id use lsof, to weed the noise try the following --

Re: [PLUG] Optical drive driving me crazy

On Thu, 31 Dec 2015, John Jason Jordan wrote: > I used 'umount -l' to get rid of it. Right after that is when I got the: > [410083.768178] VFS: busy inodes on changed media or resized disk sr0 John, That makes sense. The umount man page has this description for the '-l' option: "-l

Re: [PLUG] Optical drive driving me crazy

I finally got to a point this morning when I could reboot. After doing so everything is back to normal - after closing the drive door with media in it the media appears, although not mounted, and dmesg no longer ends in the dreaded "inode busy" message. While rebooting solves the problem, all

Re: [PLUG] Optical drive driving me crazy

On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 21:53:28 -0800 David dijo: >On 12/30/2015 09:39 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: >> On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 22:16:42 -0800 >> Russell Senior dijo: >> "John" == John Jason Jordan writes: >>> >>> John>

Re: [PLUG] Optical drive driving me crazy

On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 11:28:23 -0800, in message 20151231112823.7a66eb61@Devil-Bonobo, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 21:53:28 -0800 > David dijo: > > >The device /dev/sr0 is typically the first CD/DVD device found by > >the operating system (and /dev/sr1 would

Re: [PLUG] Optical drive driving me crazy

> "John" == John Jason Jordan writes: >> The device /dev/sr0 is typically the first CD/DVD device found by the >> operating system (and /dev/sr1 would be the second). All it's saying >> (loosely) is that the device wasn't cleanly closed before eject and >> an inode is

Re: [PLUG] Optical drive driving me crazy

> "John" == John Jason Jordan writes: >> How are you removing the disk? Do you "unmount" it before pushing >> the button on the disk drive? John> In the past I always ejected the media from the optical drive John> either by right-clicking on the drive as listed in

Re: [PLUG] Optical drive driving me crazy

Russell Senior wrote: >> "John" == John Jason Jordan writes: >>> How are you removing the disk? Do you "unmount" it before pushing >>> the button on the disk drive? > John> In the past I always ejected the media from the optical drive > John> either by right-clicking on

Re: [PLUG] Optical drive driving me crazy

On Thu, 31 Dec 2015, John Jason Jordan wrote: > I take note of Keith's suggestion to eject from the command line in order > to avoid the mount point remaining. The command 'eject /dev/sr0' does this > well. Unfortunately, while the command opens the door, at this point I > cannot mount anything

Re: [PLUG] Optical drive driving me crazy

On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 13:39:39 -0800 Russell Senior dijo: >>> The device /dev/sr0 is typically the first CD/DVD device found by >>> the operating system (and /dev/sr1 would be the second). All it's >>> saying (loosely) is that the device wasn't cleanly closed before >>>

Re: [PLUG] Optical drive driving me crazy

On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 15:58:05 -0800 Ken Stephens dijo: >Did you notice the "busy inodes problem"? Wonder if you ran out of >inodes? You might want to check out this webpage >(http://blog.scoutapp.com/articles/2014/10/08/understanding-disk-inodes) >for an explanation of inodes

Re: [PLUG] Optical drive driving me crazy

On 12/30/2015 09:39 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 22:16:42 -0800 > Russell Senior dijo: > >>> "John" == John Jason Jordan writes: >> >> John> However, at this point the optical drive won't mount anything. I >> John> tried

Re: [PLUG] Optical drive driving me crazy

On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 22:16:42 -0800 Russell Senior dijo: >> "John" == John Jason Jordan writes: > >John> However, at this point the optical drive won't mount anything. I >John> tried half a dozen different DVDs, the light on the drive flashes

Re: [PLUG] Optical drive driving me crazy

On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 22:29:41 -0800 Keith dijo: >I'm running Linux Mint 17.3 and have the same effect with my DVD drive. >If I open a CLI terminal and type 'eject' then the folder is removed >from /media/USER/DVD-NAME If I can get the drive working again I'll try that

Re: [PLUG] Optical drive driving me crazy

On 12/29/2015 8:18 AM, Don Buchholz wrote: > On 12/29/2015 12:06 AM, Russell Senior wrote: >>> "johnxj" == johnxj writes: >> johnxj> The computer is otherwise running fine. From past experience the >> johnxj> only way I know to fix this problem is to reboot the >> johnxj>

Re: [PLUG] Optical drive driving me crazy

On 12/29/2015 12:06 AM, Russell Senior wrote: >> "johnxj" == johnxj writes: > johnxj> The computer is otherwise running fine. From past experience the > johnxj> only way I know to fix this problem is to reboot the > johnxj> computer. Please don't tell me I must always

Re: [PLUG] Optical drive driving me crazy

On Tuesday, December 29, 2015, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > > If I plug in the USB drive the mount command adds a line: > > /dev/sdd1 on /media/jjj/128GB type ext4 > (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks2) > > And the drive works perfectly. > > However, at this point the

Re: [PLUG] Optical drive driving me crazy

On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 12:15:03 -0800 Russell Senior dijo: >> "John" == John Jason Jordan writes: > >John> On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 00:06:29 -0800 Russell Senior >John> dijo: > "johnxj" == johnxj

Re: [PLUG] Optical drive driving me crazy

On 12/29/2015 12:15 PM, Russell Senior wrote: >> "John" == John Jason Jordan writes: > > John> On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 00:06:29 -0800 Russell Senior > John> dijo: > "johnxj" == johnxj writes: >>> > johnxj> The computer

Re: [PLUG] Optical drive driving me crazy

> "John" == John Jason Jordan writes: John> On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 00:06:29 -0800 Russell Senior John> dijo: >>> "johnxj" == johnxj writes: >> johnxj> The computer is otherwise running fine. From past experience the

Re: [PLUG] Optical drive driving me crazy

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 10:16:42PM -0800, Russell Senior wrote: > > "John" == John Jason Jordan writes: > > John> However, at this point the optical drive won't mount anything. I > John> tried half a dozen different DVDs, the light on the drive flashes > John> briefly,

Re: [PLUG] Optical drive driving me crazy

> "John" == John Jason Jordan writes: John> However, at this point the optical drive won't mount anything. I John> tried half a dozen different DVDs, the light on the drive flashes John> briefly, then stops. The mount command does not see it, nor is John> there anything

Re: [PLUG] Optical drive driving me crazy

On 12/26/2015 05:59 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > My laptop has a Bluray drive. When I insert a DVD Xubuntu 14.04.3 > automatically mounts it and usually opens a file browser window in > Thunar. In so doing it creates a mount point > in /media/jjj/. The problem is that when the DVD is >

Re: [PLUG] Optical drive driving me crazy

> "johnxj" == johnxj writes: johnxj> The computer is otherwise running fine. From past experience the johnxj> only way I know to fix this problem is to reboot the johnxj> computer. Please don't tell me I must always reboot the computer johnxj> in order to change an

Re: [PLUG] Optical drive driving me crazy

On Sat, 26 Dec 2015 21:36:07 -0600 Richard Owlett dijo: >On 12/26/2015 7:59 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: >> My laptop has a Bluray drive. When I insert a DVD Xubuntu 14.04.3 >> automatically mounts it and usually opens a file browser window in >> Thunar. In so doing it

[PLUG] Optical drive driving me crazy

My laptop has a Bluray drive. When I insert a DVD Xubuntu 14.04.3 automatically mounts it and usually opens a file browser window in Thunar. In so doing it creates a mount point in /media/jjj/. The problem is that when the DVD is removed, whether by pressing the button on the drive or

Re: [PLUG] Optical drive driving me crazy

On 12/26/2015 7:59 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > My laptop has a Bluray drive. When I insert a DVD Xubuntu 14.04.3 > automatically mounts it and usually opens a file browser window in > Thunar. In so doing it creates a mount point > in /media/jjj/. The problem is that when the DVD is > removed,