CentOS 6 Cd Tray keeps opening

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jwalpole
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Re: CentOS 6 Cd Tray keeps opening

Post by jwalpole » 2012/01/22 22:58:21

boot.log looked okay except for:

No kdump initial ramdisk found. [WARNING]
Rebuilding /boot/initrd-2.6.32-220.2.1.el6.i686kdump.img
Unknown parameter Kdump_not_supported_on_Xen_domU_guest
Failed to run mkdumprd

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messages has some errors, not sure if they are related:

tail messages
Jan 22 16:57:15 localhost acpid: 1 client rule loaded
Jan 22 16:57:15 localhost avahi-daemon[2463]: Server startup complete. Host name is linux.local. Local service cookie is 298582756.
Jan 22 16:57:16 localhost avahi-daemon[2463]: Service "linux" (/services/ssh.service) successfully established.
Jan 22 16:57:16 localhost automount[2560]: lookup_read_master: lookup(nisplus): couldn't locate nis+ table auto.master
Jan 22 16:57:19 localhost kernel: mtrr: type mismatch for f6000000,800000 old: write-back new: write-combining
Jan 22 16:57:19 localhost kernel: mtrr: type mismatch for f6000000,800000 old: write-back new: write-combining
Jan 22 16:57:21 localhost polkitd[2964]: started daemon version 0.96 using authority implementation `local' version `0.96'
Jan 22 16:57:21 localhost rtkit-daemon[2970]: Sucessfully made thread 2968 of process 2968 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '42' high priority at nice level -11.
Jan 22 16:57:22 localhost gdm-simple-greeter[2957]: Gtk-WARNING: gtkwidget.c:5460: widget not within a GtkWindow
Jan 22 17:33:03 localhost automount[3329]: lookup_read_master: lookup(nisplus): couldn't locate nis+ table auto.master

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the other logs look normal to me.

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Re: CentOS 6 Cd Tray keeps opening

Post by pschaff » 2012/01/22 23:53:29

I'd try swapping the hardware. May be a defective drive.

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Re: CentOS 6 Cd Tray keeps opening

Post by jwalpole » 2012/01/30 19:15:15

Well, against my better judgement, and the fact that I don't have another cd drive to test the bad hardware theory, I reinstalled CentOS 6, only to have the same thing happen. So, I am guessing that it is most likely a faulty hardware issue as pschaff suggests. I am gonna try one other option to see if maybe it is a driver?? Thanks for all the great ideas though.

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CentOS 6 Cd Tray keeps opening

Post by toracat » 2012/01/30 21:23:48

[quote]
jwalpole wrote:
If it were a joke what should I be looking for?[/quote]
You'd be looking for a cron job that runs 'eject -T' at random times. :-)

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Re: CentOS 6 Cd Tray keeps opening

Post by pschaff » 2012/01/30 23:10:14

It could also be someone with remote access to the system.

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Re: CentOS 6 Cd Tray keeps opening

Post by r_hartman » 2012/01/31 12:48:18

If it's hardware, which sounds likely, it should even behave like that being just powered on, without the OS loaded; i.e. intercept the boot in the grub menu and leave it there.

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Re: CentOS 6 Cd Tray keeps opening

Post by garyw » 2012/06/02 11:41:34

I've got this exact same issue. Not tracked down the root cause yet and no, it is not anyone with remote access to the system as it's a test box on an isolated vlan.

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