DVD-R not auto-mounted by Gnome

[ingo]

Binary package hint: hal

This bug has already been evaluated at the tail of Bug #112584, please see also there.

Last action was:

strace -f -p <pid of the hald-addon-storage polling your drive device> -o /tmp/addon-storage.strace.txt
   - insert the cd
   - wait
   - ctrl+c
   - send the /tmp/addon-storage.strace.txt file

Which is attached here. Bug applies to both, Feisty and Gusty

[Yann Rouillard (yann-pleiades)]

I am bit puzzled.
The hald-addon-storage seems to work correctly.

But you miss lines like that in the hal daemon debug output:

[12217]: 19:57:47.742 [D] addon-storage.c:670: **************************************************
[12217]: 19:57:47.742 [D] addon-storage.c:671: Doing addon-storage for /dev/scd0 (bus scsi) (drive_type cdrom) (udi /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_...)
[12217]: 19:57:47.742 [D] addon-storage.c:672: **************************************************
[12217]: 19:57:49.751 [I] addon-storage.c:346: Checking whether device /dev/scd0 is locked on HAL
[12217]: 19:57:49.764 [I] addon-storage.c:354: ... device /dev/scd0 is not locked on HAL

Could you try again to have hal debug output ?

[ingo (ingo-steiner)]

I did again. Now I waited until the drive (after 2 spin-up's) has spun down again. Her what I did in the xterm (as root):

root@pp:/home/ingo# ps -Af | grep hald-addon-storage
107 7447 7317 0 13:00 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sdb (every 2 sec)
107 7474 7317 0 13:00 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/scd0 (every 2 sec)
107 7481 7317 0 13:00 ? 00:00:01 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/scd1 (every 2 sec)
root 7968 7954 0 20:50 pts/0 00:00:00 grep hald-addon-storage
root@pp:/home/ingo# strace -f -p 7474 -o /tmp/addon-storage.strace.txt.2
Process 7474 attached - interrupt to quit
Process 7474 detached
root@pp:/home/ingo#

[ingo (ingo-steiner)]

This is just to prove that the DVD-R is working manually:

root@pp:/home/ingo# mount /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom0
mount: block device /dev/scd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
root@pp:/home/ingo# ls -lR /media/cdrom0
/media/cdrom0:
insgesamt 14184
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 14521900 2007-02-17 17:47 NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9746-pkg1.run
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 88 2007-02-18 21:12 parallels-vm

/media/cdrom0/parallels-vm:
insgesamt 2
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 196 2007-02-18 21:12 oswarp4

/media/cdrom0/parallels-vm/oswarp4:
insgesamt 2850318
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 2918721536 2007-02-18 21:05 oswarp4.hdd
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 1411 2007-02-17 21:03 oswarp4.pvs
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 21 2007-02-17 21:04 serial1.txt
root@pp:/home/ingo#

Please note: I issued the mount command for /dev/sr0!

[Yann Rouillard (yann-pleiades)]

/dev/sr0 is probably a symlink to /dev/scd0 like on my computer:

$ ls -l /dev/sr0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2007-10-27 11:45 /dev/sr0 -> scd0

[ingo (ingo-steiner)]

here too:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2007-10-27 12:46 sr0 -> scd0

worth to mention that /dev/sr0 is a sATA-recorder?

[Yann Rouillard (yann-pleiades)]

Concerning the debug to retry, I was talking about he hald daemon debug
log, the one you got
with:
sudo su -s /bin/sh haldaemon -c "hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes"
>/tmp/hal.debug.txt 2>&1

If hald-addon-storage is properly launched, you should get some lines
like these one:

[12217]: 19:57:47.742 [D] addon-storage.c:670:
**************************************************
[12217]: 19:57:47.742 [D] addon-storage.c:671: Doing addon-storage
for /dev/scd0 (bus scsi) (drive_type cdrom)
(udi /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_...)
[12217]: 19:57:47.742 [D] addon-storage.c:672:
**************************************************
[12217]: 19:57:49.751 [I] addon-storage.c:346: Checking whether
device /dev/scd0 is locked on HAL
[12217]: 19:57:49.764 [I] addon-storage.c:354: ... device /dev/scd0 is
not locked on HAL

I didn't see them in your hal.debug.txt file, I don't understand why
since hald-addon-storage seems to properly work.

So can you do it again to be sure ?

[ingo (ingo-steiner)]

So, I did repeat the test. Here the output in the root-xterm:

root@pp:/home/ingo# /etc/init.d/hal stop
 * Stopping Hardware abstraction layer hald [ OK ]
root@pp:/home/ingo# su -s /bin/sh haldaemon -c "hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes" >/tmp/hal.debug.txt.2 2>&1
             ++++++++ here I inserted the DVD +++++++++++
root@pp:/home/ingo# /etc/init.d/hal start
 * Starting Hardware abstraction layer hald [ OK ]
root@pp:/home/ingo#

During the command 'su -s /bin/sh haldaemon -c "hald............' I got a pop-up message telling me:
"Cannot mount volume.
You are not privileged to mount this volume."

Debug-output is attached here (all in Gusty)

[Yann Rouillard (yann-pleiades)]

I made have a mistake, you can launch hald as root, so can you do it again, I would like to understand why you don't have the hald-addon-storage debug messages:

eject the dvd if in the drive
stop hal
sudo hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes >/tmp/hal.debug.txt 2>&1
wait 10 seconds
ps -Af | grep hal
strace -f -p <pid of the hald-addon-storage polling your drive device> -o /tmp/addon-storage.strace.txt
insert the dvd
wait 10 seconds

stop the debug and send both output.

[ingo (ingo-steiner)]

Here the 2 debug files:

Again I got the pop-up
"Cannot mount volume.
You are not privileged to mount this volume."

[ingo (ingo-steiner)]

Important observation:

after finishing the tests, I left the DVD-R in the drive/recorder.
Checked with '/etc/init.d/hal start'
and realized that hal was not running, so I issued:
'/etc/init.d/hal start'

hal starts - and the DVD-R is mounted by GNOME, Nautilus popps up with the content and the icon appeared on the desktop.

Good or bad news ?

[ingo (ingo-steiner)]

Correction:

after finishing the tests, I left the DVD-R in the drive/recorder.
Checked with ' ps -Af | grep hal'
and realized that hal was not running, so I issued:
'/etc/init.d/hal start'
....
It MOUNTS!

[ingo (ingo-steiner)]

Based on that I made further tests:

ejected the DVD
started hal
inserted the DVD - nothing happens, only drive spins up twice
stopped hal
started hal - DVD is mounted

I did repeat 3 times, this procedure works!

[Yann Rouillard (yann-pleiades)]

Your last hal log was more interesting, it seems the probe-volume takes too much time, see:

[8693]: 21:52:03.713 [E] probe-volume.c:351: Timed out probing /dev/scd0 - broken device driver?

There is a 10s timeout, on probe-volume.

If you are able to automount when starting hal, it's maybe because the timeout is longer for the coldplug detection at startup.

The probe-volume seems to be stucked in the volume_id_probe_all function, this function is also used by vol_id.

Could you do:
    vol_id /dev/scd0

Does it take a lot of time ?

[ingo (ingo-steiner)]

Further Info:

all the tests till now were done in my favorite recorder LG GSA-H30N
now I inserted the DVD in my 'second' drive sr1 = Samsung SH-S183H and it mounts automatically - withot tricks.
So probably a timing issue with hal in combination with my recorder?

(the LG however is my preferred device, especially regarding DVD-RAM)

[ingo (ingo-steiner)]

> Could you do:
    vol_id /dev/scd0

inserted the DVD in scd0, waited till it sun-up twice and settled again.

root@pp:/home/ingo# vol_id /dev/scd0
ID_FS_USAGE=filesystem
ID_FS_TYPE=udf
ID_FS_VERSION=
ID_FS_UUID=
ID_FS_UUID_ENC=
ID_FS_LABEL=OS2 in Parallels
ID_FS_LABEL_ENC=OS2\x20in\x20Parallels
ID_FS_LABEL_SAFE=OS2_in_Parallels

it responds after 5 seconds!

[Yann Rouillard (yann-pleiades)]

To test if the timeout is the problem, try to recompile hal with a greater timeout:

- apt-get source hal
- cd hal-0.5.9.1
- edit files hald/util.h and hald/util.h and change line:
  #define HAL_HELPER_TIMEOUT 10000
in
#define HAL_HELPER_TIMEOUT 60000
- then build the package
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc

install the hal package created

You might need to install additional packages to be able to compile hal.

[ingo (ingo-steiner)]

Puh, I finally succeded in compiling hal, but 2 questions remaining:

1. I only found 1 file 'hald/util.h' where I could edit the line '#define HAL_HELPER_TIMEOUT 10000'

2. after compiling I got a bunch of *.deb packets - which to install???

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 347152 2007-10-29 16:32 hal_0.5.9.1-6ubuntu5_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 59586 2007-10-29 16:31 hal-device-manager_0.5.9.1-6ubuntu5_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 593494 2007-10-29 16:31 hal-doc_0.5.9.1-6ubuntu5_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 369974 2007-10-29 16:32 libhal1_0.5.9.1-6ubuntu5_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23224 2007-10-29 16:32 libhal-dev_0.5.9.1-6ubuntu5_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16578 2007-10-29 16:32 libhal-storage1_0.5.9.1-6ubuntu5_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17710 2007-10-29 16:32 libhal-storage-dev_0.5.9.1-6ubuntu5_i386.deb

Please help - I am (not yet :-) so skilled with Ubuntu/Debian as you,
Ingo

[Yann Rouillard (yann-pleiades)]

copy/paste mistake.
You should have read:
- edit files hald/util.h and hald/hald_runner.h and change line:

so could you change the hald/hald_runner.h and rereun:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc

install the 3 packages hal, libhal1 and libhal-storage1:
dpkg -i hal_0.5.9.1-6ubuntu5_i386.deb libhal1_0.5.9.1-6ubuntu5_i386.deb libhal-storage1_0.5.9.1-6ubuntu5_i386.deb

[ingo (ingo-steiner)]

Great - CONGRATULATIONS to YOU - it works!!!

DVD now is mounted correctly by hal, so it is just timing.
What I now have to do is just find out the optimum timeout (suppose it is in 1/10 of a second) for my hardware.
Will play a bit with that and let you know.

One more question me came up when editing hald/hald_runner.h:
the comment to that line states, this timeout is for sane. But with my Scanner I do not have any problems. So should I keep those 2 values in hald/hald_runner.h and hald/util.h always the same, or may I set the value in hald/hald_runner.h back to 10000 to keep the scanner-settings as original?

Before I forget: many thanks for having the patience with me as a newbie and for teaching me a lot of Debian/Ubuntu internals!
Ingo

[ingo (ingo-steiner)]

I have now narrowed down the values for my hardware conditions:

hald/util.h
#define HAL_HELPER_TIMEOUT 15000
is already sufficient to have the DVD automounted by hal in my LG-recorder

hald/hald_runner.h
#define HAL_HELPER_TIMEOUT 10000
Leaving it on that original value (only for sane?) still lets the DVD mount by hal without problems.
Do you expect any objections/possible incompatibilities with this splitting of timeouts?

Best regards,
Ingo

[Yann Rouillard (yann-pleiades)]

I don't know enough about hal to know if the timeout should be same.
A warning message during the compilation tells me it's not sure the second one is really used.

Anyway I opened a bug upstream so that bug can be fixed directly there.

[ingo (ingo-steiner)]

Many thanks for your help, I did learn a lot on varios things regarding Ubuntu!

I also checked with '12000' which does not automount, so I will stay with 15000.
Probably it is also worth to mention, that I only observed the effect with that very DVD-R in my sATA LG GSA-H30N recorder. I love that recorder, because the Samsung SH-S183H (where hal mounts the DVD with 10000) is very poor in error correction: it even sometimes is unable to read the DVD-R's it has written. So I use the SH-S183H only as a reader in case where the LG is busy/needed for other purposes.

Ingo