Bug#607304: dosbox: locks up because SDL tries to access cdrom

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

tags 607304 + moreinfo
stop

(For the dosbox maintainer, I think that #487811 can be closed, I will
do it myself if SDL's #607304 is closed as well)

Hello,

Thank you for your interest in improving Debian, and sorry to keep the
bug unattended for so long.  There's now an effort to review the open
bugs related with SDL packages.

In line ~282 of the .c file mentioned there's the following:
  /* Look in the environment for our CD-ROM drive list */
  SDLcdrom = SDL_getenv("SDL_CDROM");     /* ':' separated list of devices */

It then proceeds to try to open each CDROM in turn.

So for those with the faulty driver, could you please try to set the
environment variable with SDL_CDROM="/dev/null" or any other
non-existing path to see if this fixes the problem?

If this fixes it, I think that introducing another piece of code is unnecessary.


Regards.