I've made some progress and got a CD to play... here's what I did: tail -f /var/log/messages gives the following just after cd is ejected: "Jun 20 17:52:22 localhost kernel: [17179920.660000] cdrom: dropping to single frame dma"
dmesg also reports: "[17179920.660000] cdrom: dropping to single frame dma" I tried disabling dma on the device (hdparm -d0 /dev/hdd) but I still got the same message in /var/log/messages and dmesg and the CD still ejects under gnome. As requested, I dropped down to a console and stopped gdm/X. I attempted to play an audio cd with a console based cd player (cdcd) and was able to play the cd without issues. So it looks like an X/gnome issue. I therefore restarted X. I figured I'd have a go at eliminating possibilities so I issued a "killall gnome-volume-manager" and tried playing the audio cd again. Naturally since gvm wasn't there to autostart it, I had to start sound-juicer manually, but I was then able to play the CD without problems. Interestingly the cd still showed up on the desktop as usual (guessing it's nautilus at work). So the issue is definitely gnome related and seems to be related to (if not caused by) gnome-volume-manager. Obviously, killall is not a good long term solution though :) -- CDROM drive eject disc after randomly seconds of use https://launchpad.net/bugs/47516 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
