Litter in the logs when DVD seen by KsCD
Some folks here may have seen my related post a week ago [1] on debian-kde,
subject "Litter In The Logs If DVD In The Drive". Sorry to any such people
for the noise.
I'd figured out (eventually) that the extreme amount of useless messages being
logged to various system logfiles (syslog, messages, etc.) :
Jan 12 00:08:00 localhost kernel: hdc: packet command error: error=0x50
Jan 12 00:08:01 localhost kernel: hdc: packet command error: status=0x51
{ DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
is caused by KsCD "polling" the DVD-ROM drive (once per second) to see
whether any media is present - results :
* if no disc is inserted, all is well
* if a CD is present, all is well
* if a DVD is present, massive amounts of garbage in the logs
I'd really like to know whether anyone else here is running Sarge on the 2.6.8
kernel, with the default KDE 3.3.2, and has a DVD-ROM drive, and has ever
left a DVD in the drive while KsCD is running, configured to use that drive
as the CDROM device. If so, did you see the same garbage ?
There's a known bug against KsCD at kde.org [2] and I'd like to add a followup
stating whether it also affects just me, or others here as well.
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2007/01/msg00033.html
[2] http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92714
(It seems everyone else on debian-kde must be running Etch - or doesn't fit
one of the other criteria ... probably they just don't use KsCD.)
TIA for any responses, one way or the other.
Nick Boyce
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Will no one rid me of this troublesome chair ?
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