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Frostwarrior

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Registered: 2009-06-06

Posts: 27

Gnome keeps closing my cd tray

Its like that.
When im in gnome, i cant open up my cd tray properly because it keeps closing every time (the tray doesnt come full open but gnome tries to close it anyways).
I tried in grub and slim, it opens flawlssly.

Any help please?

toad

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From: if only I knew

Registered: 2008-12-22

Posts: 1,775

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Re: Gnome keeps closing my cd tray

sounds like some programme wants info from a cd/dvd...

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Frostwarrior

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Registered: 2009-06-06

Posts: 27

Re: Gnome keeps closing my cd tray

Even if gnome starts empty, it keeps closing.

Frostwarrior

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Registered: 2009-06-06

Posts: 27

Re: Gnome keeps closing my cd tray

I found this thread explaining the problem.

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=86836

fabertawe

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From: Lloegr

Registered: 2009-11-24

Posts: 282

Re: Gnome keeps closing my cd tray

Anyone know anything more about this? It's really starting to annoy me now. This started happening sometime in January. Also, my cd drives changed from sr* to hdc and hdd (and sdb changed to hda), anyone know why?

I don't fancy downgrading udev <150 as it also involves the mkinitcpio and klibc stuff. Any ideas appreciated.

Last edited by fabertawe (2010-02-25 17:54:06)

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fabertawe

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From: Lloegr

Registered: 2009-11-24

Posts: 282

Re: Gnome keeps closing my cd tray

Well I fixed my cd/dvd drawer eccentricities by editing /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and adding pata and scsi to the HOOKS entry...

HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata scsi sata filesystems"

followed by...

sudo mkinitcpio -p kernel26

to regenerate the kernels. Viola, no more headbanging!

This also returned my second drive to /dev/sdb from /dev/hda and my dvd drives to /dev/sr* from /dev/hd* (which was probably what the problem was).

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eldarion

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From: Santarém - Portugal

Registered: 2006-08-01

Posts: 71

Re: Gnome keeps closing my cd tray

I have exactly the same problem on KDE 4.4.1. I only noticed it today, so i don't know when it started happening.

My cd-rom drive is defined as hdb and my dvd-rom is defined as hda.

Edit: I rebooted and it is working fine now.

Last edited by eldarion (2010-03-04 14:15:08)

KoS

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Registered: 2006-02-02

Posts: 35

Re: Gnome keeps closing my cd tray

Using 'pata' instead of 'ide' in mkinitcpio.conf solved the problem for me too!
Thanks for the hint!