Getting my CD burner working

Tom Watts wattst-dxuVLtCph9gsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Tue Aug 29 15:36:43 UTC 2006


Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> I wonder if cdrecord is stuck waiting for vold/hald to stop bothering
> the drive so it can get an exclusive lock on it.
> 
> Are you doing this as root or a normal user?
> 
> --
> Len Sorensen

I am running it as root.  If it means anything, eject has no problem 
with the device and it usually needs to wait for it to be not busy; is 
that the same thing as waiting for an exclusive lock?

-Tom
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