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linux-source-2.6.20 package

  1. Bug #75295
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 75295

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richhal22 (richhal22) wrote : Re: Feisty freeze, kernel (?) tries to access DVD drive

I was experiencing similar problems (same "drive not ready for command" error, and the dvd drive would immediately close whenever I tried to open it, like in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/98806). These problems were not fixed by disabling the cdrom and ide_cd modules. I was also receiving the following message several times per second:

device-mapper: ioctl: unable to remove open device sda6

sda6 does not exist on my system, and never has. I also noticed (in top) that the an evms process, and udevd were popping up repeatedly (presumable polling something). I took a hint from http://kristof.willen.be/?q=node/762, and removed the evms and evms-ncurses packages, and the problem was solved.