I thought of logging a dmesg after this happened again, so I'm attaching it.
You will see that the flooding starts after a message that says: hda: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01). Trying to recover by ending request. I am not 100% sure, but I seem to remember that I have seen that message (or a very similar one) already in the past and it was not followed by the endless error messaging. At the other end of the stick, the flooding ceased because I ran a script I always keep at hand: #! /bin/sh sudo hdparm -w /dev/hda sudo hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda hence the final entries of the dmesg. I was not at my desk when this happened, that's why it took so long before I ran the script. When i came back, I had a nice popup on the screen saying an audio CD was in the drive (surprise!). ** Attachment added: "full dmesg logged" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10778143/dmesg.log -- System report a music CD in empty CD drive. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/113144 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
