Internal ATAPI CD/DVD drives will not automount in Lucid PowerPC

Bug #584052 reported by J. McDonald
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #590448: CD/DVD change not recognized. Edit Remove
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: udev

A DVD or CD will not automount when installed in the internal ATAPI drvie within Lucid on my Dual-G4 PowerPC Mac. This functioned fine in Jaunty and quite working after a clean install of Lucid. It continues to function fine when I boot into OS X. Right now in Lucid I have to use the "mount" command in terminal to successfully mount removable media. lshw identifies the drive as an Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-105. Previously in Jaunty, inserting a DVD or CD would automount the media with an icon onto the desktop and within nautilus and for video-DVDs it would open up VLC for me and bring up a DVD menu. I can plug an external USB CD/DVD/RW drive into the PowerPC Mac and it works fine (automounts CDs/DVDs, opens appropriate player, etc.). It just doesn't seem to work with the internal ATAPI Pioneer CD/DVD/RW.

Here is some additional information:

$lshw -C disk
  *-cdrom
       description: DVD writer
       product: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-105
       vendor: Pioneer
       physical id: 0
       bus info: ide@2.0
       logical name: /dev/hde
       version: A506
       serial: BLDL003037WL
       capabilities: packet atapi cdrom removable nonmagnetic dma lba iordy pm audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r
       configuration: status=ready
     *-medium
          physical id: 0
          logical name: /dev/hde
  *-disk:0
       description: ATA Disk
       product: Hitachi HDP725050GLAT80
       vendor: Hitachi
       physical id: 0
       bus info: ide@0.0
       logical name: /dev/hda
       version: GM4OA4CA
       serial: GE1540RJ39312A
       size: 465GiB (500GB)
       capabilities: ata dma lba iordy smart security pm apm partitioned partitioned:mac
       configuration: apm=off smart=on
  *-disk:1
       description: ATA Disk
       product: IBM-IC35L120AVV207-1
       vendor: IBM
       physical id: 1
       bus info: ide@0.1
       logical name: /dev/hdb
       version: V2SBA63A
       serial: VNVD33G4GJXN9T
       size: 114GiB (122GB)
       capacity: 114GiB (122GB)
       capabilities: ata dma lba iordy smart security pm apm partitioned partitioned:mac
       configuration: apm=off mode=udma5 smart=on

$cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/hdb3 during installation
UUID=a8aff40d-da4a-4df8-bd7a-16429346febd / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/hdb4 during installation
UUID=e46145fe-0b54-491c-9008-fc5fe0d5c4fb none swap sw 0 0

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: udev 151-12
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-powerpc-smp 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-powerpc-smp ppc
Architecture: powerpc
CustomUdevRuleFiles: z80_user.rules
Date: Fri May 21 21:14:35 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release powerpc (20100428)
ProcCmdLine: root=/dev/hdb3 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: udev

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J. McDonald (mcdonald-joseph) wrote :
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frenchy82 (cartes) wrote :

I think i have the same problem.

Cdrom doesn't autmount. I have to right click on the icone and select "mount" (with pcmanfm2)
I had no problem with karmic, and beta2 on lucid

gvfs-mount -li
Drive(0): Lecteur CD
  Type: GProxyDrive (GProxyVolumeMonitorGdu)
  ids:
   unix-device: '/dev/sr0'
  themed icons: [drive-optical] [drive]
  is_media_removable=1
  has_media=1
  is_media_check_automatic=1
  can_poll_for_media=1
  can_eject=1
  can_start=0
  can_stop=0
  start_stop_type=unknown
  Volume(0): UDF Volume
    Type: GProxyVolume (GProxyVolumeMonitorGdu)
    ids:
     unix-device: '/dev/sr0'
     label: 'UDF Volume'
    themed icons: [media-optical-cd-rom] [media-optical-cd] [media-optical] [media]
    can_mount=1
    can_eject=1
    should_automount=0

sudo lshw -C disk
  *-disk
       description: ATA Disk
       product: IC25N020ATDA04-0
       vendor: Hitachi
       physical id: 0
       bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
       logical name: /dev/sda
       version: DA3O
       serial: 63A63T22990
       size: 18GiB (20GB)
       capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
       configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=00000080
  *-cdrom
       description: SCSI CD-ROM
       physical id: 1
       bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
       logical name: /dev/cdrom
       logical name: /dev/scd0
       logical name: /dev/sr0
       capabilities: audio
       configuration: status=ready

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Stephen (sharris-internode) wrote :

Similar problem but different device. After clean install of 10.04, neither CD/DVD drive or usb drives would automount.
Fixed USB's by adding UUID to fstab. Nothing in fstab for CDROM, but from what Ive read its not necessary. I will however add a line in fstab for it, until bug is resolved.

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Uwe Geuder (ubuntulp-ugeuder) wrote :

To my understanding automounting is done by nautilus.

1. Alt-F2
2. gconf-editor
3. navigate to apps/nautilus/preferences
4. make sure that media_automount is selected

Although autmount is selected not all media is mounted, so the bug report is valid. I just wanted to mention this. (and people affected by the problem might want to double-check)

(It might well be that nautilus doesn't get the right info from lower levels like udev, udisks or whatever is in the chain below. So I don't say the bug is necessarily in nautilus.)

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Uwe Geuder (ubuntulp-ugeuder) wrote :

Automounting seems to be affected (i.e. not working) regardless of the drive in question (or at least for many different ones). Same problem observed here with 2 different optical drives (one internal and the other USB) and USB mass storage offered from a mobile device.

summary: - Internal ATAPI CD/DVD will not automount
+ Removable media (CD/DVD/USB drives) will not automount
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Uwe Geuder (ubuntulp-ugeuder) wrote : Re: Removable media (CD/DVD/USB drives) will not automount

changed the title from

Internal ATAPI CD/DVD will not automount

to

Removable media (CD/DVD/USB drives) will not automount

I wouldn't be surprised if this bug has been reported earlier. Setting the likely-dup tag.

tags: added: likely-dup
removed: powerpc
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Uwe Geuder (ubuntulp-ugeuder) wrote :

I also removed the powerpc tag. This bug is not architecture specific. Reproduced on i386.

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J. McDonald (mcdonald-joseph) wrote :

I did not have this issue with other Lucid installations, only PowerPC and only with the ATAPI drive - usb CD/DVD/RW drives worked on the PowerPC Lucid install. This seems top be straying a bit from the original bug report that I filed. Also, I tried editing the fstab and still could not resolve the issue.

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J. McDonald (mcdonald-joseph) wrote :

I am also runninng Lucid on an Atom/Ion based netbook and within a VM on a MacBook Pro 3.1 without cd/dvd automount issues.

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Uwe Geuder (ubuntulp-ugeuder) wrote :

> I did not have this issue with other Lucid installations

Hmm, so the circumstances triggering the bug are more complicated.

When investigating a different bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/539515 ) I added some logging to the nautilus code that is responsible for automounting ( http://launchpadlibrarian.net/49434240/UGe-logging.patch )

The log shows that the callback in nautilus to handle possible automounts is not even called when I insert a CDROM.

I have not digged any deeper yet where the indication should come from and why it doesn't come.

If you J. McDonald have a system where automount works it would nice to compare to logs between a working one and a non-working one. I have not seen a single automount work in Lucid.

Currently the logging is only available as a patch. However, if you are willing to investigate more but would prefer a binary package, please let me know. I can't promise look into it every day, but maybe a couple of hours each week. Of course we would need to add more logging / log at different system components to really see what is going wrong. The current logging is just a start.

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Uwe Geuder (ubuntulp-ugeuder) wrote :

It appears to me that the patch in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks/+bug/539515/comments/109
fixes also this problem.

After having installed the udisks package from the PPA both my external optical drive and my mobile phone with USB mass storage get mounted automatically.

Couldn't test my internal optical drive now, because I have moved it to another machine for the time being.

If the other people affected could please test the proposed udisks patch and comfirm that it helps we could mark this report here as a duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/539515

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Stephen (sharris-internode) wrote : Re: [Bug 584052] Re: Removable media (CD/DVD/USB drives) will not automount
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Yup that worked. Even inbuilt CD/DVD drive automounted with audio disk
already in drive. when opened the drive was demounted as expected, and
automounted again on re-insertion. problem solved !!

On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 19:25 +0000, Uwe Geuder wrote:
> It appears to me that the patch in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks/+bug/539515/comments/109
> fixes also this problem.
>
> After having installed the udisks package from the PPA both my external
> optical drive and my mobile phone with USB mass storage get mounted
> automatically.
>
> Couldn't test my internal optical drive now, because I have moved it to
> another machine for the time being.
>
> If the other people affected could please test the proposed udisks patch
> and comfirm that it helps we could mark this report here as a duplicate
> of https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/539515
>
> --
> Removable media (CD/DVD/USB drives) will not automount
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/584052
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “udev” package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: udev
>
> A DVD or CD will not automount when installed in the internal ATAPI drvie within Lucid on my Dual-G4 PowerPC Mac. This functioned fine in Jaunty and quite working after a clean install of Lucid. It continues to function fine when I boot into OS X. Right now in Lucid I have to use the "mount" command in terminal to successfully mount removable media. lshw identifies the drive as an Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-105. Previously in Jaunty, inserting a DVD or CD would automount the media with an icon onto the desktop and within nautilus and for video-DVDs it would open up VLC for me and bring up a DVD menu. I can plug an external USB CD/DVD/RW drive into the PowerPC Mac and it works fine (automounts CDs/DVDs, opens appropriate player, etc.). It just doesn't seem to work with the internal ATAPI Pioneer CD/DVD/RW.
>
> Here is some additional information:
>
> $lshw -C disk
> *-cdrom
> description: DVD writer
> product: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-105
> vendor: Pioneer
> physical id: 0
> bus info: ide@2.0
> logical name: /dev/hde
> version: A506
> serial: BLDL003037WL
> capabilities: packet atapi cdrom removable nonmagnetic dma lba iordy pm audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r
> configuration: status=ready
> *-medium
> physical id: 0
> logical name: /dev/hde
> *-disk:0
> description: ATA Disk
> product: Hitachi HDP725050GLAT80
> vendor: Hitachi
> physical id: 0
> bus info: ide@0.0
> logical name: /dev/hda
> version: GM4OA4CA
> serial: GE1540RJ39312A
> size: 465GiB (500GB)
> capabilities: ata dma lba iordy smart security pm apm partitioned partitioned:mac
> configuration: apm=off smart=on
> *-disk:1
> description: ATA Disk
> product: IBM-IC35L120AVV207-1
> vendor: IBM
> physical id: 1
> bus info: ide@0.1
> logical name: /dev/hdb
> version: V2SBA63A
> serial: VNVD33G4GJXN9T
> size: 114GiB (122GB)
> c...

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frenchy82 (cartes) wrote : Re: Removable media (CD/DVD/USB drives) will not automount

Not better for me, so, my problem must be different from this one

I have a lot

end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 128
[ 489.628995] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[ 489.629016] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
[ 489.629029] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Illegal mode for this track
[ 489.629057] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 04 20 00 00 02 00
[ 489.629081] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 4224

with dmesg

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Felicia (sisternotes) wrote :

I'm not sure this bug is completely related to the issue that I'm experiencing upon upgrade from Karmic to Lucid. Upon first upgrading, I tried connecting an iPod. It mounted but, Rhythmbox didn't recognized it. I surfed around and followed the suggestion to turn the nautilus automount off (http://luisgmarine.blogspot.com/2010/01/fix-ipod-detection-in-ubuntu-910.html). Are non-launchpad links "legal"? That solved the Rhythmbox/iPod issue. But, it requires me to manually mount CDs and USB flash drives. This I don't mind.

The issue I'm trying to figure out now, and reported in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/589461, is that Lucid does not recognize my USB flash drive - so that I can mount it- when I have already plugged in the USB wireless card.

I have two usb ports and it doesn't matter which devise is plugged in either port. The problem occurs when I boot the laptop with the wireless plugged in but not the flash drive. So, do you think I should continue following this bug (584052) or is bug 589461 sufficiently different to not be related?

Comment #3 says Stephen >Fixed USB's by adding UUID to fstab

I can try that, but how?

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J. McDonald (mcdonald-joseph) wrote :

I am wiling to try a logging patch. Is there a PowerPC version compiled or does that matter? I can make automount work or not work on the same machine (powerpc) depending on which drive I use. The internal ATAPI drive will not automount media. An external USB drive will automount media just fine on the same machine. I happened to have one for the Atom/Ion netbook that I was able to try using with the PowerPC.

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Stephen (sharris-internode) wrote : Re: [Bug 584052] Re: Removable media (CD/DVD/USB drives) will not automount
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refer http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=872197

On Sat, 2010-06-05 at 14:14 +0000, Felicia wrote:
> I'm not sure this bug is completely related to the issue that I'm
> experiencing upon upgrade from Karmic to Lucid. Upon first upgrading, I
> tried connecting an iPod. It mounted but, Rhythmbox didn't recognized
> it. I surfed around and followed the suggestion to turn the nautilus
> automount off (http://luisgmarine.blogspot.com/2010/01/fix-ipod-
> detection-in-ubuntu-910.html). Are non-launchpad links "legal"? That
> solved the Rhythmbox/iPod issue. But, it requires me to manually mount
> CDs and USB flash drives. This I don't mind.
>
> The issue I'm trying to figure out now, and reported in
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/589461, is that
> Lucid does not recognize my USB flash drive - so that I can mount it-
> when I have already plugged in the USB wireless card.
>
> I have two usb ports and it doesn't matter which devise is plugged in
> either port. The problem occurs when I boot the laptop with the wireless
> plugged in but not the flash drive. So, do you think I should continue
> following this bug (584052) or is bug 589461 sufficiently different to
> not be related?
>
> Comment #3 says Stephen >Fixed USB's by adding UUID to fstab
>
> I can try that, but how?
>
> --
> Removable media (CD/DVD/USB drives) will not automount
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/584052
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “udev” package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: udev
>
> A DVD or CD will not automount when installed in the internal ATAPI drvie within Lucid on my Dual-G4 PowerPC Mac. This functioned fine in Jaunty and quite working after a clean install of Lucid. It continues to function fine when I boot into OS X. Right now in Lucid I have to use the "mount" command in terminal to successfully mount removable media. lshw identifies the drive as an Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-105. Previously in Jaunty, inserting a DVD or CD would automount the media with an icon onto the desktop and within nautilus and for video-DVDs it would open up VLC for me and bring up a DVD menu. I can plug an external USB CD/DVD/RW drive into the PowerPC Mac and it works fine (automounts CDs/DVDs, opens appropriate player, etc.). It just doesn't seem to work with the internal ATAPI Pioneer CD/DVD/RW.
>
> Here is some additional information:
>
> $lshw -C disk
> *-cdrom
> description: DVD writer
> product: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-105
> vendor: Pioneer
> physical id: 0
> bus info: ide@2.0
> logical name: /dev/hde
> version: A506
> serial: BLDL003037WL
> capabilities: packet atapi cdrom removable nonmagnetic dma lba iordy pm audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r
> configuration: status=ready
> *-medium
> physical id: 0
> logical name: /dev/hde
> *-disk:0
> description: ATA Disk
> product: Hitachi HDP725050GLAT80
> vendor: Hitachi
> physical id: 0
> bus info: ide@0.0
> logical name: /dev/hda
> version: GM4OA4CA
> serial: GE1540RJ3...

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J. McDonald (mcdonald-joseph) wrote :

I changed the topic back. I felt like my original report was hijacked into a different issue. I have no trouble mounting USB drives or USB CD/DVD/RW and there is some problem specific to the PowerPC distribution and ATAPI removeable media based on the forum discussion and subsequent debugging that originally lead to this bug report.

summary: - Removable media (CD/DVD/USB drives) will not automount
+ Removable media (CD/DVD drives) will not automount in Lucid PowerPC
summary: - Removable media (CD/DVD drives) will not automount in Lucid PowerPC
+ Internal ATAPI CD/DVD drives will not automount in Lucid PowerPC
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J. McDonald (mcdonald-joseph) wrote :

I tried PySDM, but the drive in question does not show up (/dev/hde). I also tried adding "Disk Mounter" to the panel, but the drive also does not show there, even though it shows up in lshw as:
  *-ide:1
                description: IDE Channel 0
                physical id: 2
                bus info: ide@2
                logical name: ide2
                clock: 33MHz
              *-cdrom
                   description: DVD writer
                   product: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-105
                   vendor: Pioneer
                   physical id: 0
                   bus info: ide@2.0
                   logical name: /dev/hde
                   version: A506
                   serial: BLDL003037WL
                   capabilities: packet atapi cdrom removable nonmagnetic dma lba iordy pm audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r
                   configuration: status=ready
                 *-medium
                      physical id: 0
                      logical name: /dev/hde

I also could not find a UUID referring to this drive

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J. McDonald (mcdonald-joseph) wrote :

I upgraded to the 2.6.32-22-powerpc-smp kernel, but it's still not working

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J. McDonald (mcdonald-joseph) wrote :

I think this is now worse. Now I can't even mount the drive from the command line:

$ mount /dev/hde -t iso9660 /mnt/cdrom
mount: block device /dev/hde is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hde,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail or so

$ dmesg | tail
[ 2515.575187] Buffer I/O error on device hde, logical block 9
[ 2515.581199] hde: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
[ 2515.581214] hde: command error: error=0x50 { LastFailedSense=0x05 }
[ 2515.581223] hde: possibly failed opcode: 0xa0
[ 2515.583101] end_request: I/O error, dev hde, sector 0
[ 3280.668436] hde: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
[ 3280.668461] hde: command error: error=0x50 { LastFailedSense=0x05 }
[ 3280.668471] hde: possibly failed opcode: 0xa0
[ 3280.675079] end_request: I/O error, dev hde, sector 64
[ 3280.675137] isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=hde, iso_blknum=16, block=16

It still shows up in lshw and I have no problems with the drive when booting into OS X.

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J. McDonald (mcdonald-joseph) wrote :

I've added my .config from /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-22-powerpc-smp

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Uwe Geuder (ubuntulp-ugeuder) wrote :

> I changed the topic back.

Ok, for me.

> I felt like my original report was hijacked into a different issue.

Sorry, no hijacking intended.

My mounting issues have been solved by udisks version 1.0.1-1ubuntu1, which is currently available from lucid-proposed ( https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed ). I have not checked whether that includes availability for PowerPC, but I'd assume so. Even if it doesn't sound that likely that it solves your problem, it's probably better to investigate with the newest version of udisks.

To my understanding udisks is the new component between udev and nautilus (which does the automount). New as in Lucid but not in Karmic.

Does "udisks --dump" show anything interesting about your drive in question?

If you do

1.) "sudo killall udisks-daemon"
2.) "udisks --dump"

Will the udisks --dump succeed immediately? (it will restart the daemons you just killed if everything works fine and there is no delay that a human could recognize)

> I think this is now worse. Now I can't even mount the drive from the command line:

Actually I had the same issue with a certain CD-ROM recently (in i386). To my surprise the following trick worked:

1. use dvdisaster application (needs to be installed manually) to read the ISO-image. Just read it, don't do anything with dvdisaster's checksum stuff.
2. loop mount the ISO image "mount -o loop image.iso /media/tricky"

It seems that the kernel or mount or whatever does not retry on I/O errors as hard as dvdisaster does. That was at least my guess.

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J. McDonald (mcdonald-joseph) wrote :

Thanks for the tips. I will look into udisks and give this a try tomorrow.

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J. McDonald (mcdonald-joseph) wrote :

It looks like I have udisks 1.01-1build1 but 1.01-1ubuntu1 just became available for the PowerPC port of Ubuntu 10.04. I will do an upgrade and see if this fixes the problem.

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J. McDonald (mcdonald-joseph) wrote :

The upgrade to udisks 1.01-1ubuntu1 did not fix the issue. I did:
1.) "sudo killall udisks-daemon"
2.) "udisks --dump"

and the dump is attached. It does see a CD that I put into the drive (HDE). I am getting ready to download dvdisaster and give that a try...

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J. McDonald (mcdonald-joseph) wrote :

I guess I'm a bit unclear as to how dvdisaster would work for me. It seems like it just makes an ISO image of the disk in the drive which I can then mount. It seems to work for some media types (data disks) but not others (audio cds). It is at least capable of detecting the drive and the media successfully, but it takes a long time to read a drive and write the ISO, so it seems unwieldy for daily use of the drive.

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J. McDonald (mcdonald-joseph) wrote :

It appears that dvdisaster reads the drive and writes the contents to an ISO image in my home directory that can then be separately mounted. This is pretty unwieldy and while it might work on an emergency basis, I doubt I would take the 1/2 hour or so to read in the drive and write out the ISO every time I need to mount DVD or CD media. It's also pretty limited to what it will read (i.e., it reads data CDs but not audio CDs). Are we certain the problem is in udisks? If so, I will change the affected package in the bug report.

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kallewirsch (stefan-hunsicker) wrote :

I can confirm that even with udisks 1.01-1ubuntu1 automount oes not work. I issued a similar bug reports for karmic and lucid (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-mount/+bug/507113 and https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks/+bug/590448).
As you can read there, a simple workaround makes the disks mounted: open a terminal and issue

udisks --poll-for-media <your device>

(replacing <your device> with the appropriate file, e.g. /dev/hdb for me). If you repeat this command also after eject, you can repeat the process as often as desired.

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Uwe Geuder (ubuntulp-ugeuder) wrote :

> ... dvdisaster ...
>. This is pretty unwieldy and while it might work on an emergency basis,

Absolutely. This was just intended to be a work-around so you can access your data because you wrote...

> I think this is now worse. Now I can't even mount the drive from the command line:

... and I understood you are now in trouble to access your data.

>it reads data CDs but not audio CDs

Ah, audio CDs. I've never tried to put one into my computer (well, at least not for years).
Does the audio CD need to be mounted? (I really don't know, but I remember Felicia saying
somewhere in these discussions that the media player plays fine without having the disk mounted)

Is there actually a difference for you regarding automounting depending on whether you use audio or data CDs?

(I can also try i i386, but at this moment I don't have a CD-drive handy.)

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J. McDonald (mcdonald-joseph) wrote :

kallewirsch - you did it! Using:
     udisks --poll-for-media /dev/<devicename>
successfully identifies the media in the internal drive. I will change the bug report to a duplicate of 590448.

affects: udev (Ubuntu) → udisks (Ubuntu)
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