On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Jean-Yves Migeon wrote:
George E Sollish wrote:Further, I see that turning off the hal-daemon unlocks the drive. So one is locking the other and I can probably live without hal. Is it possible that the cd1 error is preventing hal from releasing the drive?This reminds me of an issue with HAL and CD-ROM drives, a few weeks ago: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-desktop/2009/04/15/msg000098.html Maybe it is related. -- Jean-Yves Migeon jeanyves.migeon%free.fr@localhost
It does sound similar. Unfortunately, I'm not a programmer so more knowledgeable minds than mine are needed.
Thanks. George E Sollish Chief Engineer Auto Gear Company