Comment 3 for bug 16826

E-Mail discussion:

> Am Mon, 09 May 2005 17:17:26 +0300 schrieb ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY <email address hidden>:
> Are the DVDs clean and not scratched?

the DVD's are okay, running on the same machine (Dual Boot) and same CD-Drive in Windows XP with WinDVD 6 just fine
and did it three days ago under Warty for the last couple of month.

> Good. This mean there is a problem *specific* with Ubuntu (no hardware failure).
> After inserting the problematic DVDs and waiting about 40 seconds, run the following command and send back the output:
> dmesg | tail

reingard@ubuntu:~ $ dmesg |tail
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x480-0x48f 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
reingard@ubuntu:~ $

> If the problem occurs, see also the output of "mount" and "ps ax | grep mount" and send the output back. Also, tell us what
> your "/etc/fstab" have in it.

reingard@ubuntu:~ $ mount
/dev/hda2 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /media/windows type vfat (rw,umask=000)
/dev on /.dev type unknown (rw,bind)
none on /dev type tmpfs (rw,size=5M,mode=0755)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
reingard@ubuntu:~ $

reingard@ubuntu:~ $ ps ax | grep mount
10125 pts/0 R+ 0:00 grep mount
reingard@ubuntu:~ $

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1/media/windowsvfatumask=00000
/dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0

AND THESE,
are the outputs with a DVD which can be read and played (NOTE: same started up system, NOT newly started):

reingard@ubuntu:~ $ dmesg |tail
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x480-0x48f 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
reingard@ubuntu:~ $

reingard@ubuntu:~ $ mount
/dev/hda2 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /media/windows type vfat (rw,umask=000)
/dev on /.dev type unknown (rw,bind)
none on /dev type tmpfs (rw,size=5M,mode=0755)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
/dev/hdc on /media/cdrom0 type iso9660 (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=ranacora)
reingard@ubuntu:~ $

reingard@ubuntu:~ $ ps ax | grep mount
10347 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep mount
reingard@ubuntu:~ $

i see differences, but how to interprete them?
thanks for anybody who can look into this outputs.
regards,
René