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[Bug 240079] need a way to eject bad disks during the install rather than waiting
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- Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 08:07:33 -0700 (MST)
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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240079
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------- Comment #3 from sh@xxxxxxxxxx 2007-02-01 08:07 MST -------
Uh - exactly what do you expect here?
As long as the CD is spinning in the drive, it gets accessed. If the CD in the
drive is so bad that it cannot be read, it also cannot be ejected. This is not
an issue of YaST2, it's a generic CD-ROM issue.
The generic approach to that kind of problem is:
- Get a shell
- Find out what process accesses the device and kill it to stop the read
attempts:
fuser -mk /dev/hdc
(or whatever device it is)
- Unmount: umount /dev/hdc
- Eject: eject /dev/hdc
Or, simple but drastic: Hit Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot. Ever user (in particular
those familiar with MS Windows) knows how to do that.
As Daniel wrote in comment #2, the only other way would be a button in YaST2
that would always be present and accessible, and a separate thread to monitor
presses on that button.
I bet that a lot more users would be utterly confused with such a button than
there would be users benefiting from it. And in all my 7+ years of working on
YaST2 no other user seemed to have that kind of problem, or at least there was
none who didn't know how to hit Ctrl-Alt-Del.
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sh@xxxxxxxxxx changed:
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Resolution| |INVALID
------- Comment #3 from sh@xxxxxxxxxx 2007-02-01 08:07 MST -------
Uh - exactly what do you expect here?
As long as the CD is spinning in the drive, it gets accessed. If the CD in the
drive is so bad that it cannot be read, it also cannot be ejected. This is not
an issue of YaST2, it's a generic CD-ROM issue.
The generic approach to that kind of problem is:
- Get a shell
- Find out what process accesses the device and kill it to stop the read
attempts:
fuser -mk /dev/hdc
(or whatever device it is)
- Unmount: umount /dev/hdc
- Eject: eject /dev/hdc
Or, simple but drastic: Hit Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot. Ever user (in particular
those familiar with MS Windows) knows how to do that.
As Daniel wrote in comment #2, the only other way would be a button in YaST2
that would always be present and accessible, and a separate thread to monitor
presses on that button.
I bet that a lot more users would be utterly confused with such a button than
there would be users benefiting from it. And in all my 7+ years of working on
YaST2 no other user seemed to have that kind of problem, or at least there was
none who didn't know how to hit Ctrl-Alt-Del.
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