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I have a Dell D630 laptop that I did a clean install of Fedora on last weekend. Every time I open the CD drive and close it, it pops open again after a couple seconds. This happens whether or not it has a CD in it.
This has only happened under Fedora; under the late Crunchbang and Windows XP this never happened. Anybody know anything I could try?
twerk_it_606
Posted 2015-02-27T23:46:07.070
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Could be a couple of different things.
Could be hardware failure/malfunction based on what I'm reading (I'm reading it as though it's chronological because you haven't supplied more data).
http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/cd-drive-keeps-opening?PageSpeed=noscript
Could also be a software malfunction/conflict which results in this strange behaviour as well. In one case, software for a USB dongle was actually interpreting the device as a mass storage device (driver install software) which meant that from time to time ejection of the optical drive could be a side-effect.
dtbnguyen
Posted 2015-02-27T23:46:07.070
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I don't think it's hardware as I've only experienced the bug under Fedora, as I mentioned in the OP. I also haven't installed any software except Firefox. – twerk_it_606 – 2015-03-01T05:32:33.363
Ok I just booted up Tails on a flash drive and it's still happening, so it's probably either hardware or malware. – twerk_it_606 – 2015-03-06T21:11:20.160
1Omg, a D630 that still runs...amazing laptops. – Moab – 2015-02-28T17:32:31.663