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Re: how to be sure, that /dev/cdrom exists?



On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 04:13:20PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
>On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 10:14:50PM +0100, Jan-Hendrik Palic wrote:
>> The softwares behavior on missing devices is cruel ;(
>> If the /dev/cdrom does not exists, it will stop starting ... 
>> To solve this, I see two ways, set the link /dev/cdrom or put the right
>> device into the the configfile .. 
>Is it possible to get a fix for this into the upstream sources?
>Especially in light of the devfs issue pointed out, it would be ideal if
>the software would deal more gracefully with the absence of this device
>file.  I can also see it being useful to continue running pbbuttonsd when
>the cdrom drive is physically absent, perhaps due to a hardware failure.

there is a already reported bug about this and forwarded to upstream.
It seems, that I have poke upstream again .. :)

	
	Jan

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