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Date:      Sat, 5 Nov 2011 13:47:03 -0400
From:      Mark Johnston <markjdb@gmail.com>
To:        Brandon Falk <falkman@gamozo.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cdparanoia stuck in cbwait
Message-ID:  <20111105174703.GA2666@pikachu.uwaterloo.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20111105170940.GC50362@localhost>
References:  <20111105164212.GB50362@localhost> <20111105164802.GA50515@raichu.mark-home> <20111105170940.GC50362@localhost>

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On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 01:09:40PM -0400, Brandon Falk wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 12:48:02PM -0400, Mark Johnston wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 12:42:12PM -0400, Brandon Falk wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I was got some read errors when I was reading from my disk, which is
> > > fine. But then cdparanoia starting to no longer respond. Now it's
> > > zombied and sitting in cbwait. `kill -9 <pid>` does not take it down, it
> > > seems like it's stuck in the kernel (?). Is this an issue to look at
> > > cdparanoia for, or to look in the kernel? Perhaps cdparanoia or the
> > > kernel should have some sort of a timeout? Currently it looks like the
> > > only fix is a full reboot.
> > 
> > I've seen this problem a couple of times on -BETA2 as well. I haven't
> > had time to try and figure out what's causing it, but a camcontrol reset
> > of the bus will "fix" the problem without a reboot IIRC.
> > 
> > -Mark
> 
> No luck on the reset. When I reset, it says it was reset successfully,
> but cdparanoia still sits zombied, and nothing changes. If I do
> `camcontrol stop`, camcontrol hangs and becomes a zombie too (until I
> kill it's parent process)

Hm, perhaps I'm misremembering it. I'll try to reproduce it when I get a
chance.



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