Stewart B Lone on 8 Feb 2006 00:07:56 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] CD tray keeps opening randomly


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Art Alexion wrote:
> Stephen Gran wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 08:37:57AM -0500, Art Alexion said:
>> 
>>
>>
>>>It is getting worse and worse.  It used to only happen when there was
>>>media in the tray, but now it happens sometimes when it is empty, too. 
>>>It happens in the middle of ripping a CD.  It doesn't yet happen in the
>>>middle of an audio burn, but it does happen during the 'verify' phase of
>>>a data burn.
>>>   
>>>
>>
>>What wm/desktop environment are you running?  I know several of them now
>>do helpful things behind your back like poll for new hardware or poll
>>for new cd media.  Perhaps hal or one of those is confusing your cd into
>>opening?
>>
>>Just a shot in the dark,
>> 
>>
> 
> I think this is it because it started happening when I updated KDE to
> 3.4.3.  I can install 3.5.1, but I'm not sure whether it will fix more
> 3.4.3 problems or break things that are currently working.
> 
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Just a thought. Should be trivial to swap out the drive if you have an
extra lying around. Sounds like its random, so maybe hardware?

Stewart Lone
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