[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#705020: gvfs automaticly close cd tray

[Michael Biebl]

Am 10.04.2013 19:23, schrieb Michael Biebl:
> reassign 705020 udisks
> severity 705020 normal
> thanks
> 
> Am 10.04.2013 18:45, schrieb Klaus Ethgen:
>> Hello again,
>>
>> Am Di den  9. Apr 2013 um 12:33 schrieb Michael Biebl:
>>> The component responsible for that is udisks.
>>> Does it help when you disable polling via "udisks --inhibit-all-polling".
>>
>> After this I investigates the problem a bit more and tried "udisks
>> --enumerate" after uninstalling gvfs and the bug also appears.
>>
>> So it seems to be a bug of udisks that is somewhat triggered by the
>> gvfs, I don't know how.
> 
> Well, gvfs uses udisks as backend, so this is not surprising. Doesn't
> make it a gvfs bug though.
> As said, most likely a firmware bug of the CD-Rom drive, so I'm not sure
> if there is a lot that can be done about this.
> 
> Re-assigning to udisks and adjusting severity.

Fwiw, I know such hardware related bugs suck.

As a workaround, you can disable polling for that device.
See man 7 udisks : UDISKS_DISABLE_POLLING

You can set that via a udev rule [1].

Michael

[1]
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/udisks/commit/?id=fb86ef144bad470b3d8ed761c7bdbe94886e5edd

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