Bug#432015: whichwayisup: Strange access to CD ROM

[Helge Kreutzmann]

Package: whichwayisup
Version: 0.7.0-1
Severity: normal

I "backported" your game to Etch and (after understanding the key
usage) like it. However, the game somehow wants to access my CD-ROM
drive, resulting in (/var/log/messages):
Jul  6 19:33:22 remaxp kernel: hda: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Jul  6 19:33:22 remaxp kernel: hda: packet command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }
Jul  6 19:33:22 remaxp kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Jul  6 19:33:22 remaxp kernel: ATAPI device hda:
Jul  6 19:33:22 remaxp kernel:   Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05)
Jul  6 19:33:22 remaxp kernel:   "42 02 40 01 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "
Jul  6 19:33:22 remaxp kernel: hda: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Jul  6 19:33:22 remaxp kernel: hda: packet command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }
Jul  6 19:33:22 remaxp kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Jul  6 19:33:22 remaxp kernel: ATAPI device hda:
Jul  6 19:33:22 remaxp kernel:   Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05)
Jul  6 19:33:22 remaxp kernel:   "42 02 40 01 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "

Since it is running as normal user, this should cause no harm, but 
nevertheless the game should not even attempt to read from CD ROM[1] (or
this should be configurable). At least a warning on the shell should
be printed.

The CD ROM is usually not mounted.

[1] As most Debian users won't have the appropriate CD ROM and the man
    page does not talk about a CD ROM at all, nor does any documentation
    in /usr/share/doc/whichwayisup

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.19.2-grsec-cz01
Locale: LANG=de_DE at euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages whichwayisup depends on:
ii  python                  2.4.4-2          An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-pygame           1.7.1release-4.1 SDL bindings for games development
ii  python-pyogg            1.3-1.1          A Python interface to the Ogg libr
ii  ttf-bitstream-vera      1.10-7           The Bitstream Vera family of free 

whichwayisup recommends no packages.

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