Have you tried booting to different INIT levels and seeing if it occurs? thats usually the fastest way to track a problem down. Try runlevel 3 and see if it still occurs. If not, it's probably something in KDE/etc that starts in runlevel 3. If it does, go lower, and you can probably narrow down the daemon thats causing it, though I couldn't see any potential culprits initially in your ps -A (thanks for the output BTW) ______________________________ Justin Grote Network Architect, CCNA JWG Networks Email: nospam-justin@grote.name (remove nospam-) SMS: nospam-rastan@vtext.com (remove nospam-) Phone: (208) 631-5440 ------------------------------ Original Message Follows ------------------------------ MS> Actually, I'm starting to believe the ghost part... :-D MS> It seems to happen at random times, for exampel, today it took 6 minutes MS> from login before the drive ejected, and after I closed it, it took 2 MS> minutes before it ejected again. This then continues at random intervals. MS> Output of ps -A: MS> linux:/home/markus # ps -A MS> PID TTY TIME CMD MS> 1 ? 00:00:05 init MS> 2 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd/0 MS> 3 ? 00:00:00 events/0 MS> 4 ? 00:00:00 kacpid MS> 5 ? 00:00:00 kblockd/0 MS> 6 ? 00:00:00 khelper MS> 7 ? 00:00:00 pdflush MS> 8 ? 00:00:00 pdflush MS> 10 ? 00:00:00 aio/0 MS> 9 ? 00:00:00 kswapd0 MS> 170 ? 00:00:00 kseriod MS> 475 ? 00:00:00 reiserfs/0 MS> 903 ? 00:00:00 kcopyd MS> 1634 ? 00:00:00 hotplug MS> 1635 ? 00:00:00 logger MS> 1662 ? 00:00:00 pci.agent MS> 1663 ? 00:00:00 logger MS> 1780 ? 00:00:00 khubd MS> 2816 ? 00:00:00 smpppd-ifcfg MS> 2843 ? 00:00:00 pppd MS> 2865 ? 00:00:00 syslogd MS> 2870 ? 00:00:00 klogd MS> 3541 ? 00:00:00 portmap MS> 3544 ? 00:00:00 resmgrd MS> 3573 ? 00:00:00 fetchmail MS> 3712 ? 00:00:00 hwscand MS> 4538 ? 00:00:00 smpppd MS> 4644 ? 00:00:00 sshd MS> 4811 ? 00:00:00 powersaved MS> 4849 ? 00:00:00 postmaster MS> 4853 ? 00:00:00 postmaster MS> 4854 ? 00:00:00 postmaster MS> 5032 ? 00:00:00 cupsd MS> 5202 ? 00:00:00 master MS> 5240 ? 00:00:00 pickup MS> 5241 ? 00:00:00 qmgr MS> 5336 ? 00:00:00 httpd2-prefork MS> 5397 ? 00:00:00 cron MS> 5418 ? 00:00:00 nscd MS> 5684 ? 00:00:00 kdm MS> 6183 tty1 00:00:00 mingetty MS> 6184 tty2 00:00:00 mingetty MS> 6185 tty3 00:00:00 mingetty MS> 6186 tty4 00:00:00 mingetty MS> 6187 tty5 00:00:00 mingetty MS> 6188 tty6 00:00:00 mingetty MS> 6189 ? 00:00:10 X MS> 6218 ? 00:00:00 kdm MS> 6222 ? 00:00:00 httpd2-prefork MS> 6223 ? 00:00:00 httpd2-prefork MS> 6224 ? 00:00:00 httpd2-prefork MS> 6225 ? 00:00:00 httpd2-prefork MS> 6226 ? 00:00:00 httpd2-prefork MS> 6272 ? 00:00:00 kde MS> 6307 ? 00:00:00 gpg-agent MS> 6308 ? 00:00:00 ssh-agent MS> 6333 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit MS> 6336 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit MS> 6338 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit MS> 6341 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit MS> 6350 ? 00:00:00 artsd MS> 6352 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit MS> 6353 ? 00:00:00 kwrapper MS> 6355 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit MS> 6356 ? 00:00:01 kdeinit MS> 6358 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit MS> 6360 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit MS> 6362 ? 00:00:02 kdeinit MS> 6365 ? 00:00:02 kdeinit MS> 6366 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit MS> 6369 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit MS> 6371 ? 00:00:00 kamix MS> 6374 ? 00:00:01 suseplugger MS> 6385 ? 00:00:00 kwalletmanager MS> 6388 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit MS> 6389 ? 00:00:01 kopete MS> 6392 ? 00:00:00 thunderbird MS> 6394 ? 00:00:00 run-mozilla.sh MS> 6399 ? 00:00:20 thunderbird-bin MS> 6402 ? 00:00:00 gconfd-2 MS> 6412 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit MS> 6413 pts/1 00:00:00 bash MS> 6423 ? 00:00:00 kdesu MS> 6425 ? 00:00:00 kdesud MS> 6432 pts/3 00:00:00 su MS> 6433 pts/3 00:00:00 kdesu_stub MS> 6436 ? 00:00:00 yast2 MS> 6450 ? 00:00:00 y2controlcenter MS> 6485 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit MS> 6486 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit MS> 6487 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit MS> 6511 pts/1 00:00:00 su MS> 6512 pts/1 00:00:00 bash MS> 6519 pts/1 00:00:00 ps MS> I have also uninstalled K3B just in case it had something to do with it, MS> but that didnt make ant differance. MS> Regards, MS> Markus Svensson MS> Justin Grote wrote:
It's a ghost in the machine! run for your life!!
Sorry, just got done seeing I, Robot.
Does it occur on startup, or while you're running? If while you are running, is it intermittent or does it occur at a regular interval?
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------------------------------ Original Message Follows ------------------------------ MS> Hi all!
MS> I'm experienceing some weired behaviour on my 9.1 Pro system after MS> updating with the latest kernel and other security related updates. The MS> problem is that after the update one of my CD-drives keeps opening it's MS> bay door. The device is an old CD-ROM drive mounted as slave behind a MS> Memorex 24Maxx CD-RW drive.
MS> The problem is only there in Linux, if I boot into Windows XP the drive MS> keeps closed. This is getting really annoying, since I have one of those MS> Chieftec chassis with a big door in front of the drives.
MS> Has anyone else experienced this problem, or have any cles as to what MS> might be the cause?
MS> Regards, MS> Markus Svensson