[gentoo-user] cdrom: open failed

[gentoo-user] cdrom: open failed

[Carl Flippin]

I've recently done an install based loosely on the 1/3 method but
using 2005.1 as the base. Everything works fine except for an error
message which I get on bootup. Every time I boot, I get the message:

cdrom: open failed
cdrom: open failed

I get the message twice as shown. I'm guessing I get the message twice
because I have 2 optical drives in the system. Based on when the
message pops up, it appears that the message is coming from /sbin/rc.
When I looked at the script, however, I can't find anything trying to
open a cdrom drive.

Some potentially relevent info:

Kernel: 2.6.13-ck5
GCC:   3.4.4-r1
glibc:   2.3.5

If anybody needs any additional info, I'll be happy to post it. I
didn't want to spam the list unnecessarily.

Thanks,
Carl

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Re: [gentoo-user] cdrom: open failed

[Holly Bostick]

Carl Flippin schreef:
> I've recently done an install based loosely on the 1/3 method but
> using 2005.1 as the base. Everything works fine except for an error
> message which I get on bootup. Every time I boot, I get the message:
> 
> cdrom: open failed
> cdrom: open failed

I always assumed that this message (which I have also seen on occasion)
is because

1) udev or /etc/fstab is attempting to mount the detected device
(normal), and

2) there is no media in the drive (since a removeable drive can't be
read to be mounted if there's no media present).

So I never thought there was anything to worry about in such a message.
Was I wrong?

Holly
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RE: [gentoo-user] cdrom: open failed

[Michael Kintzios]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Holly Bostick [mailto:motub@planet.nl] 
> Sent: 25 September 2005 15:19
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cdrom: open failed
> 
> 
> Carl Flippin schreef:
> > I've recently done an install based loosely on the 1/3 method but
> > using 2005.1 as the base. Everything works fine except for an error
> > message which I get on bootup. Every time I boot, I get the message:
> > 
> > cdrom: open failed
> > cdrom: open failed
> 
> I always assumed that this message (which I have also seen on 
> occasion)
> is because
> 
> 1) udev or /etc/fstab is attempting to mount the detected device
> (normal), 

I also get this message, despite not having set up my fstab to auto
mount the CDROM.  So it shouldn't be a mounting error; probably it is
related to probing the device.  Can't remember if there is a particular
kernel option that brings this about.  Interested to know what it means.
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Regards,
Mick

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