cdparanoia stuck in cbwait

Mark Johnston markjdb at gmail.com
Sat Nov 5 17:14:04 UTC 2011


On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 12:42:12PM -0400, Brandon Falk wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was got some read errors when I was reading from my disk, which is
> fine. But then cdparanoia starting to no longer respond. Now it's
> zombied and sitting in cbwait. `kill -9 <pid>` does not take it down, it
> seems like it's stuck in the kernel (?). Is this an issue to look at
> cdparanoia for, or to look in the kernel? Perhaps cdparanoia or the
> kernel should have some sort of a timeout? Currently it looks like the
> only fix is a full reboot.

I've seen this problem a couple of times on -BETA2 as well. I haven't
had time to try and figure out what's causing it, but a camcontrol reset
of the bus will "fix" the problem without a reboot IIRC.

-Mark


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