Bug#705020: gvfs automaticly close cd tray

[Michael Biebl]

Am 09.04.2013 00:36, schrieb Klaus Ethgen:
> Package: gvfs
> Severity: critical
> 
> Sorry for the high severity but it breaks the system in a very hard way,
> breaking the hardware cdrom tray and harming humans.
> 
> The problem is that when I open the cd tray to insert a cd, gvfs has
> installed triggers to automatically close it. Unfortunately, it do
> ignore if the cd is fully mounted or if there is a finger in the way
> that is just insterting the cd.
> 
> Unfortunately there is also other software like for example
> virt-manager, that depends indirectly on gvfs, even if gvfs is not
> needed or even wanted. As I have to uninstall the gvfs to not harm
> myself or other, such software as virt-manager is not installable too so
> it is broken.

My guess is, that this is due to broken firmware, where polling the
state of the CD drive (media inserted) causes it to close.

The component responsible for that is udisks.
Does it help when you disable polling via "udisks --inhibit-all-polling".

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