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I've got a Virtual CD which can mount remote media via IPMI. After doing an install of Ubuntu 12.10 I'm getting this error every 2 sec in the syslog and on the console:

  [628.890722] sr 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device

How can I figure out what is trying to write to that CD, it's certainly offline as I don't have any remote media mounted via IPMI right now.

David Parks
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You could give it a try using lsof with the path to the cd drive as argument to see which process is using it.

lsof /path/to/cd or lsof -a /path/to/cd

Stef K
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  • The CD is offline and not mounted. I tried a grep for "sr0" and "cdrom" as devices, but it seems that lsof just shows mounted filesystems. This is something more bizarre than a user-space app trying to write to a CD that's engaged. – David Parks Apr 16 '13 at 01:28