Subject: Re: freeze starting MOL with audio CD in drive
From: Samuel Rydh (samuel@ibrium.se)
Date: Wed Apr 18 2001 - 15:02:46 MDT
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 05:04:36PM -0700, David W. Etherington wrote:
> I'm running MOL 0.9.56 under linux 2.2.18pre21, on a Wallstreet.
> Whenever I forget to eject my audio CD before launching startmol, the
> computer hangs in the worst way (hangs linux, only fn-ctl-shift-pwr
> will get its attention).
>
> This has been the case thru several versions of MOL, and I seem to
> recall that it also happened with 2.2.18, but I haven't seen any discussion
> of the problem.
Unfortunately, this is (almost certainly) not a bug in MOL but rather
in the kernel driver. You ought to get the same result if you do a
'cat /dev/cdrom' or 'dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/dev/null count=20000 seek=1000'.
You can always comment out the /dev/cdrom line in /etc/molrc
to prevent MOL from accessing the CD.
/Samuel
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