[NTLUG:Discuss] Any way to unlock a locked device?

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On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 7:12 AM, terry <trryhend at gmail.com> wrote:
> grip has been around a long time, may not be maintained anymore I don't know
> for sure but could be that it just doesn't need any maintenance,  but grip
> has always worked flawlessly for me.  I've used it to rip and just to play
> CDs too. Now-days, I just rip all my music into mp3s
>
> dcd is a simple command-line CD player, you might want to try that one too.
> There are a lot of CD players and using different ones might help you with
> more clues.  Which ever one you use, I would run them from command line so
> that you can see what ever standard output the various players might give
> you - you could possibly tell some more about this problem by seeing system
> logs or command line output.
> ... Could be a hardware problem.
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 10:55 PM, Leroy Tennison <leroy_tennison at prodigy.net
>> wrote:
>
>> Found a partial solution to my CD Player quest: Grip, it's apparently an
>> old (and probably not maintained) player but it does have a rather
>> simple implementation of "play the tracks you want directly from CD" and
>> it is installable via SuSE 10.3's Yast (apparently someone else has a
>> reason for keeping it around).
>>
>> It has it's issues, sometimes it stalls on reading the CDROM, it locked
>> up on me once so far.  I was able to kill it while in KDE but the lock
>> on the CD drive didn't go away.
>>
>> Tried ejecting as root - no response.
>> Logged out - no help.
>> Finally rebooted which worked but reminded me of an OS I would rather
>> not remember.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>


I use grip almost exclusively for ripping

there are a couple things to look at

it has a builtin cdparanoia implementation, it could be trying to
erase a scratch
I have let it chew on a track for an hour to read through a scratch (worked too)
you can disable cdparanoia

also it may be timing out on cddb/freeddb
you can disable that



and of course as already stated, run any problematic app from cli so
you can get the stdout/stderr from it






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