Boot opens CD tray

Boot opens CD tray

[Ken]

Linux Mint 20.2.

Near the end of the boot up process, the CD/DVD tray will open, and 
immediately close.

This started with the kernel update 5.4.0-84.94, and now also with 
5.4.0-86.97.

Time shifted back to 5.4.0-81, with no CD tray opening problem.

    Thank You!

Re: Boot opens CD tray

[Willy Tarreau]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 07:27:48AM -0500, Ken wrote:
> Linux Mint 20.2.
> 
> Near the end of the boot up process, the CD/DVD tray will open, and
> immediately close.
> 
> This started with the kernel update 5.4.0-84.94, and now also with
> 5.4.0-86.97.
> 
> Time shifted back to 5.4.0-81, with no CD tray opening problem.

I guess you should at least provide more info such as how your CD drive
is attached to the host (SATA/USB/IDE/SCSI/other?), and maybe compare
the boot logs from the working and broken kernels just in case you'd
find different messages possibly indicating a difference in a driver.

Willy

Re: Boot opens CD tray

[Ken]

The CD/DVD is a SATA ASUS; connected to a ASRock 970A-G/3.1 motherboard.

The changed "driver" has to be in the kernel, if it changed.

On 9/23/21 7:34 AM, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 07:27:48AM -0500, Ken wrote:
>> Linux Mint 20.2.
>>
>> Near the end of the boot up process, the CD/DVD tray will open, and
>> immediately close.
>>
>> This started with the kernel update 5.4.0-84.94, and now also with
>> 5.4.0-86.97.
>>
>> Time shifted back to 5.4.0-81, with no CD tray opening problem.
> I guess you should at least provide more info such as how your CD drive
> is attached to the host (SATA/USB/IDE/SCSI/other?), and maybe compare
> the boot logs from the working and broken kernels just in case you'd
> find different messages possibly indicating a difference in a driver.
>
> Willy

Re: Boot opens CD tray

[Willy Tarreau]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 08:03:49AM -0500, Ken wrote:
> The CD/DVD is a SATA ASUS; connected to a ASRock 970A-G/3.1 motherboard.
> 
> The changed "driver" has to be in the kernel, if it changed.

Sure but I mean that it will help narrow the problem to some subsystems.
Unfortunately we don't know what patches your distro kernel applied between
the two versions, but if you can figure that out from their changelogs, it
may help you narrow this down to just a few patches. These ones would
typically have "ata" in their subject line (sometimes "sata" or "libata"),
that could significantly limit the number of possible candidates. If you
can't find this there, you'll have two possibilities left:
  - either retry with an official kernel from kernel.org
  - or report a bug to your distro

Willy

Re: Boot opens CD tray

[Tim Gardner]

On 9/23/21 7:09 AM, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 08:03:49AM -0500, Ken wrote:
>> The CD/DVD is a SATA ASUS; connected to a ASRock 970A-G/3.1 motherboard.
>>
>> The changed "driver" has to be in the kernel, if it changed.
> 
> Sure but I mean that it will help narrow the problem to some subsystems.
> Unfortunately we don't know what patches your distro kernel applied between
> the two versions, but if you can figure that out from their changelogs, it
> may help you narrow this down to just a few patches. These ones would
> typically have "ata" in their subject line (sometimes "sata" or "libata"),
> that could significantly limit the number of possible candidates. If you
> can't find this there, you'll have two possibilities left:
>    - either retry with an official kernel from kernel.org
>    - or report a bug to your distro
> 
> Willy
> 

It appears to be the result of a stable update that has already been 
corrected: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1942299

rtg
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Tim Gardner
Canonical, Inc