In message <20050107042053.GA14387(a)devserv.devel.redhat.com>you write:
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 07:39:02PM -0800, steve_dum(a)mentorg.com
wrote:
> If I put a dvd in my drive, fire up k3b and ask for disk info k3b goes away
> for 7 minutes -- SEVEN MINUTES -- and then comes back and and shows the disk
> info. Same disk on a RH 8 system comes back in a few seconds.
Does it do the same as root. Does it do the same if you stop haldaemon first.
(I'd be suprised if either make a difference but just to be sure). If it
doesn't then strace might give clues as to what is being slow
as root and with haldaemon stopped it behaves the same.
strace shows that it's in a loop, it does a brk, then about 30 ioctls
and repeats.
brk(0x9528000) = 0x9528000
ioctl(19, CDROM_SEND_PACKET, 0xfefa0110) = 0
ioctl(19, CDROM_SEND_PACKET, 0xfefa02a0) = 0
ioctl(19, CDROM_SEND_PACKET, 0xfefa02a0) = 0
...
steve
> The above is a specific behavior, but in general reading or writing dvd's
> takes forever. Drive worked fine under FC1.
>
> Reading/writing cd-r media doesn't show these excessive delays but also
> is slower than under FC1. While waiting, the drive activity light tends to
> be either off, or occasionally blinking, but not constantly busy.
Interesting. The reading side I could believe was hal or similar but I don't
understand why it would mostly hit DVD. We really don't do much different
for the two cases.