Felix Miata wrote:

> I have 14.0.3 installed freshly on Jessie on an AMD Cedar machine 18
> months old. When I try doing anything to access a CD in either of the two
> DVD drives,
> http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Sound/xsession-errors-jessie-easyst.txt
> (includes dmesg tail) shows some sort of audio setup problem seems to be
> repeatedly trying and failing. When KsCD triggers this, it gets hung by
> the problem. Simply logging out of the session takes an excessive length
> of time, and so does attempting to reboot. Holding down CAD produces a
> long string of failed to store sound card state messages instead of
> rebooting, until well over a minute passes. On reboot, journal recovery
> occurs. /etc/group seems to have the required user permission assignments.
> Aplay works OK on a test .wav file, and so does normal startup and
> shutdown system sounds. How can I tell where the fault lies? Could there
> be a broken dependency? I don't see any open bug that seems related.
> 
> Output from alsa-info.sh:
> http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Sound/alsa-info-jessie-easyst.txt

On my notebook (intel) after starting kscd notebook rebooted - kernel crash.
I tired in the vmware that I use for testing - the same result.
In firt case I use 4.4.3 kernel. In the second the debian stock.

Did you try kplayer or VLC to access the cd?