From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 12 06:29:49 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D186A106564A for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2008 06:29:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrisom@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.180]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FAEF8FC17 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2008 06:29:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrisom@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id u52so1161155pyb.10 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:29:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:content-type:to:from:subject:date:x-mailer; bh=2rKcMEM/r9UUhi1gFWxK+okvLvgZWRR49XbzJAhKltE=; b=V/8DDcVNbTENzQlMnAvbHUE9bQ6hL/eJIaNkaPi+xRsFM6JZLFl8LVzBz2YhCNfePDZTNXppOw2pdKJfIHLN6nwIBsfqtOlrUwm5aafWwjYMu8+PXr1WoPB3u4oWSUO9nkOeR4AoeiIA2u3g0oHeD6/CP4wzB3CoVvd/ltI3K74= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:content-type:to:from:subject:date:x-mailer; b=Z9AGS9FH+bcwY/sIZANg4nHcrcZcqLw07LrN3Ewb+/+lsrGeTIycYhObhbo5CWA91XEg83nUM1XZlc1H47+djOONQV3Dvd7FPcx3/fExV+gQh0Vz4ac0pVf3z7sa4iZ5ONLqNuSNCpFq20348Y0vkb1ZaNzrThZMSdmpcR06XWg= Received: by 10.35.103.6 with SMTP id f6mr6451167pym.22.1207981788841; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:29:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.3? ( [98.212.164.35]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y64sm4657769pyg.22.2008.04.11.23.29.47 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:29:47 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v624) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: FreeBSD Questions From: Joshua Isom Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:32:22 -0500 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.624) Subject: Reading a Video CD from a DVD drive on 7.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 06:29:49 -0000 I recently made the upgrade to 7.0, and my girlfriend had some video cd's she wanted help with(end result is putting two pal vcd's on one ntsc dvd). I had a couple she'd given me before that were actually dvd's so I first put the new ones in my dvd drive and tried using mplayer on them, but it locks up with the read big timeout thing that I'm sure almost anyone who's messed with dvd's has seen. Under 6.3, that error would do the three tries, and then another three, and quit. I didn't not test under 6.3 using an actual vcd so I'm not sure if that's specific to the issue or not. But under 7.0, it'd just keep retrying forever. Since it was locked in device, I couldn't kill it, I couldn't eject the disc, and had to forcibly reboot the system. Now, the operating system still worked, but the drive was locked, and the kernel could not shut down. I doubt this is expected or tolerated behavior but given that it involves video cd's in a dvd drive trying to be accessed as a dvd, I'm not sure it's been seen very often at all. Was behavior changed from 6 to 7, or was this just an untested case? Does anyone know how best to deal with processes locked in "device"?