(see gnome bugzilla #484535 for more) If Sound Juicer locks the CD-ROM device when it starts ripping, and then crashes, the device remains locked. HAL should track the lifecycle of the application which requested the lock, and release it when that application disconnects from the bus on the assumption that it neglected to unlock for whatever reason.
Created attachment 18218 [details] [review] Patch to fix the problem I can't find out which HAL version you use, but the attached patch should fix the problem with HAL 0.5.11 or git master/head. Please test and report back.
Created attachment 18219 [details] [review] new patch version
Fixed in git: commit bdfc7b395872e0b9455752b48f88f6776f15ebb9 Author: Danny Kukawka <danny.kukawka@web.de> Date: Mon Aug 25 12:54:08 2008 +0200 fixed Lock() handling Fixed Lock() handling. The current code store the lock information for a lock owner into a hash-table with these info: key=service_name of the lock owner and as value the device which was locked. Unfortunately this don't work if a service request more than one lock, because the old one get overwritten in the hash table. Use instead of the device a GSList with devices. This should solve If the lock owner dies, remove the locks of the old_service_name and not of the new_service_name (otherwise the locks get never released).
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