Platform: G4 powermac, latest fc11 updates as of 7-Oct-2009 Push the button to open the carrier tray. The tray opens momentarily and then closes immediately all by itself. With fast hands, one can actually get a disk into the tray before it slams shut. Once a disk is inserted, it does not automatically appear on the desktop. The disk can be manually mounted [for example the fc11 PPC install DVD]. -Joseph
The problem persists in fc12. -Joseph
I am available to run whatever tests are required to resolve this problem. -Joseph
A workaround for this problem: As root run: sysctl -w dev.cdrom.autoclose=0 See bug number 543959 -Joseph
do you have anaconda installed? $ rpm -q anaconda
No... Should I? -Joseph
No, but it would be one source of the symptom
see also bug 453095 see also bug 527781
you might also try: udev-145-15.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/udev-145-15.fc12
I pulled down and installed udev-145-15.fc12 libudev-145-15.fc12 libgudev1-145-15.fc12 and rebooted that machine. Updating udev and friends did not resolve the problem. Unless dev.cdrom.autoclose is set to 0, the tray closes as soon as it is opened. Note also that auto-mount fails to occur when media with a mountable file system in placed in the tray and the tray is closed. The media can be mounted manually using the "mount" command. I did notice an oddity. The file /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules has two entries for the same device # PIONEER_DVD-RW_DVR-111D (pci-0.00020000:ata-3-ide-0:0) SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-0.00020000:ata-3-ide-0:0", SYMLINK+="cdrom", ENV{GENERATED}="1" SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-0.00020000:ata-3-ide-0:0", SYMLINK+="cdrw", ENV{GENERATED}="1" SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-0.00020000:ata-3-ide-0:0", SYMLINK+="dvd", ENV{GENERATED}="1" SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-0.00020000:ata-3-ide-0:0", SYMLINK+="dvdrw", ENV{GENERATED}="1" # PIONEER_DVD-RW_DVR-111D (pci-0001:10:17.0) SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-0001:10:17.0", SYMLINK+="cdrom1", ENV{GENERATED}="1" SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-0001:10:17.0", SYMLINK+="cdrw1", ENV{GENERATED}="1" SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-0001:10:17.0", SYMLINK+="dvd1", ENV{GENERATED}="1" SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-0001:10:17.0", SYMLINK+="dvdrw1", ENV{GENERATED}="1" This system has only one PIONEER_DVD-RW_DVR-111D. I looked at an fc9 installation I had archived and saw only the first entry. Deleting the second entry, killing off and restarting the udev daemon doesn't seem to help. When the system is rebooted, the file is regenerated with two entries for the single device. -Joseph
ok, one thing to try: comment out line 7 in /lib/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules, which will look like this: # forward scsi device event to corresponding block device # ACTION=="change", SUBSYSTEM=="scsi", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="scsi_device", TEST=="block", ATTR{block/*/uevent}="change"
Harald, The change to 60-persistent-storage.rules did not resolve the problem. The CD/DVD tray still closes immediately after opening. I worked around this problem by setting dev.cdrom.autoclose=0 in /etc/sysctl.conf. -Joseph
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 453095 ***