MYTHMUSIC: "Import CD" menu item crashes ungracefully

[Troy James Sobotka]

Summary: Selecting "Import CD" from the mythmusic plugin crashes the MythTV frontend ungracefully.

Platform: Ubuntu 8.04 amd64

Relevant Output:
"Could not open cdrom_fd: No such file or directory
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::out_of_range'
  what(): vector::_M_range_check
Aborted"

[Martin (martin-lynch)]

I can confirm same behavior, also with Ubuntu 8.04 amd 64.

[Martin (martin-lynch)]

It seems, at least in my case, the problem was that mythmusic has the mount point for the CD drive as "/dev/cdrom", however my Hardy system actually mounts it at "/dev/scd0". There's a symbolic link to scd0 called "/dev/cdrom1" but no "/dev/cdrom".

To solve this, I created a symbolic link to "/dev/scd0" as follows:

#sudo ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom

Another solution would be to change the location of the CD drive mount point in mythtv's settings. You can find that under "Utilities/Setup", "Setup", "Media Settings", "Music Settings", "General Settings", first page under "CD Device". Just change this to match the actual mount point of your CD drive (in my case, obviously, "/dev/scd0").

Hope this helps.

There should really be a patch applied that stops myth from crashing simply because it cannot find the CD drive - ie a pop up advising the drive couldn't be found and allowing for input of the drive's mount point, ideally (but not crashing would be a good start!).

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, I am closing it because the bug has been fixed in the latest development version of Ubuntu - Lucid Lynx. It won't be fixed in previous versions of Ubuntu because the package doesn't fit the requirements for backporting. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports for more information.