On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 11:33 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> [2010.06.21.0120 +0200]: > > > I am running 2.6.32 and am faced by exactly this problem on > > > a machine I cannot just reboot: > > > > > > % ps aux | egrep -c '\<D\>.+vgdisplay' > > > 37821 > > > > > > lsof or strace on existing processes don't show anything, but strace > > > on a new vgdisplay process shows that it blocks on opening > > > /dev/cdrom, which seems to be defective. > > > > Was this a version before or after the libata transition? > > I have not really followed the transition, but this is on a lenny > system with a 2.6.32 backports.org kernel. How can I check? We switched from IDE drivers to libata-based drivers in 2.6.32-10. My suspicion is that this is a bug in ide-cd which will no longer apply. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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