[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#563451: hal: CDs and DVDs report errors in dmesg

[Jonathan Steel]

Package: hal
Version: 0.5.14-1
Severity: normal


DVDs and CDs seem to take a long time to spin up. In dmesg the following errors/messages are reported. I assume this is related to HAL as stopping the HAL service gets rid of these errors.

I've tried various CDs and DVDs, a new DVD-RW drive and two laptops (both Acer TravelMate 290) and these errors always show. The discs usually work fine once GNOME has mounted them, but sometimes it doesn't respond properly and I have to eject and try again.

[30951.630122] hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
[30951.630133] hdc: command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }
[30951.630141] hdc: possibly failed opcode: 0xa0
[30951.632442] ATAPI device hdc:
[30951.632447] Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05)
[30951.632454] Read of scrambled sector without authentication -- (asc=0x6f, ascq=0x03)
[30951.632458] The failed "Read 10" packet command was: 
[30951.632460] "28 00 00 3f 67 cc 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "
[30951.632477] end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 16621360
[30951.632484] __ratelimit: 122 callbacks suppressed
[30951.632489] Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 2077670
[30951.693072] hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
[30951.693083] hdc: command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }
[30951.693090] hdc: possibly failed opcode: 0xa0
[30951.696429] ATAPI device hdc:
[30951.696433] Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05)
[30951.696440] Read of scrambled sector without authentication -- (asc=0x6f, ascq=0x03)
[30951.696444] The failed "Read 10" packet command was: 
[30951.696446] "28 00 00 3f 67 cc 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "
[30951.696462] end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 16621360
[30951.696468] Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 2077670
[30952.207586] UDF-fs: Partition marked readonly; forcing readonly mount
[30952.238237] UDF-fs INFO UDF: Mounting volume '<DVD>', timestamp 2008/05/04 03:56 (1000)

Sometimes this error is repeated numerous times:

[ 1138.409306] VFS: busy inodes on changed media or resized disk hdc


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages hal depends on:
ii  adduser                      3.112       add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                         1.2.16-2    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  hal-info                     20091130-1  Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi f
ii  libblkid1                    2.16.2-0    block device id library
ii  libc6                        2.10.2-2    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                  1.2.16-2    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2             0.82-2      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1                    2.0.1-6     XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.22.3-1    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libhal-storage1              0.5.14-1    Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libhal1                      0.5.14-1    Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libusb-0.1-4                 2:0.1.12-13 userspace USB programming library
ii  lsb-base                     3.2-23      Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mount                        2.16.2-0    Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  pciutils                     1:3.1.4-4   Linux PCI Utilities
ii  udev                         149-2       /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  usbutils                     0.86-2      Linux USB utilities

Versions of packages hal recommends:
ii  consolekit      0.4.1-2                  framework for defining and trackin
ii  eject           2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-7 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
ii  pm-utils        1.2.6.1-3                utilities and scripts for power ma

Versions of packages hal suggests:
pn  gnome-device-manager          <none>     (no description available)

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