Ubuntu
network-manager package

nm-applet takes over cd drive?

Bug #32817 reported by rsidd
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
network-manager (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Mario Đanić

Bug Description

If nm-applet is running and I insert a CD, I can't remove it. lsof suggests that nm-applet is holding the cd device. Why would it want to do that?

Killing nm-applet is rather hard too -- it respawns itself very quickly. Other than shutting down the computer I couldn't find a way to take out the CD.

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rsidd (rsidd) wrote :

Sorry, forgot to mention -- the system is dapper from 2 days ago.

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Mario Đanić (mario-danic) wrote :

Have you started nm-applet from /media/cdrom perhaps? ;)

Changed in network-manager:
assignee: nobody → mario-danic
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Darryl Clarke (dclarke) wrote :

I experienced an oddity like this with 0.5.1. after loading the nm-applet _something_ would attempt to read /dev/hdc throwing a few errors in my dmesg output. Unfortunately it wouldn't tell me what PID was doing it and by the time I notice the errors it'd already be done.

It appears to not be doing it since I updated to 0.6.1

It's very strange, I know -- I'll know further if I go a day without hdc access/seek errors in my log. :)

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rsidd (rsidd) wrote :

I don't think the bug is there any more. I filed it over a month ago.
No, I wasn't running anything off the CD-ROM. It was a data CD with some files on it.

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Luka Renko (lure) wrote :

Thanks for report. If you can reproduce with 0.6.x, please reopen.

Changed in network-manager:
status: Needs Info → Fix Released
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