Hi All, Some pretty odd behaviour I have encountered apparently as a result of upgrading from 2005.11. Update Manager gave me a notification couple weeks back that all the new packages were available, so I let it patch overnight and on reboot everything seemed hunky dory.
However (to cut a long story short), if I leave any optical media in the drive, fire up Rhythmbox, let the disc spin up and then leave it for a couple minutes (so it spins down) then I start to see some "showstopping" behaviour. The entire GNOME environment freezes (mouse pointer, System Monitor, windows, animations, applications etc) for periods of ten or so seconds about thirty seconds apart. This is regular for as long as I leave it, so the machine becomes practically unusable. I can't eject the disc from Rhythmbox, and I can't eject the volume either from GNOME or CLI. In the former I get an error message that reads: "Unable to eject Audio Disc DBus error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Noreply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken". The only way to get the system ship-shape again is to reboot, upon which I see further error messages. If I attempt a restart via GNOME, sometimes the the interface will freeze at the point all the desktop icons and application windows close. At others, it will close GNOME and make it to text interface, but not successfully reboot, and I see the following error messages; scsi: WARNING: /pci at 0,0/pci-ide at 1f,2/ide at 1 (ata1): timeout: early timeout, target=0 lun=0 genunix: atapi_start_cmd: drive select failed Which repeats over and over until I press the front panel power button - which does commence a shutdown properly. On reboot, if I happen to leave the disc in the drive (and it's not unique to any particular disc BTW), all the above behaviour repeats. If I eject optical media when the machine is going through POST, then everything is okay - however if I insert the disc during my session and let it spin down at all, then it's all over rover. This carried on for a week or so, and today it's now apparently completely broken. Optical media fails to mount at all - GNOME cannot mount it, telling me: "Unable to scan CD-RW/DVD+/-RW Drive for media changes Cannot invoke CheckForMedia on HAL: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.10" (uid=101 pid=1140 comm=") interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.Removable" member="CheckForMedia" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination="org.freedesktop.Hal" (uid=0 pid=383 comm="))" So, I no longer have system instability - but seemingly can no longer mount any optical media :-P rmvolmgr is apparently online and running. This is an Intel Quad Core Q8200 system, runs snv_111b. BTW, I was hoping in this release OpenSolaris would remember where the volume control was parked between sessions, but no dice. Cheers :) Dave -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
