[Lucid powerpc alternate] No common CD-ROM drive was detected.

[Niels Kristian Bech Jensen]

The daily build (20100309) of the lucid powerpc alternate cdrom give the error message shown in the summary when running check or trying to install from it. I have attached an image showing the complete error message.

[Luke Yelavich (themuso)]

I can confirm this. Udev is not properly labeling the CD drive as a CD device. I'll leave this on linux-ports for now, and will switch the package to udev once I can get some udev logging from an installed powerpc system.

[Luke Yelavich (themuso)]

Here is my udev log from an installed system running lucid, 2.6.32-16.25. This machine uses the ide-pmac driver for the CD drive. THe ide-pmac driver, used to enable hardware in G4 and G5 apple hardware has not yet been ported to libata in the kernel. /dev/hda is not being marked with ID_CDROM, and thus the installer cannot find a valid CD device.

[Luke Yelavich (themuso)]

Udev version is 151-5.

Here is the log.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Scott,

there's two ways of solving this:

 * For lucid, locally patch our /lib/udev/rules.d/60-cdrom_id.rules to include hd[a-z]. That's what Debian is doing as well, and udisks already supports that.

  However, it would be our first and only deviation from upstream, so you might not like that?

 * Add a debian/60-cdrom_id-ide.rules and install it only on powerpc. More packaging involved, but more "explicit", and avoids touching upstream code.

I'd go with the latter, unless you have a different preference how to package this?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package udev - 151-7

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udev (151-7) lucid; urgency=low

  * Fix key map for Acer TravelMate 6593G and Acer Aspire 1640. (From GIT
    HEAD). (LP: #536914)
  * extras/cdrom_id/60-cdrom_id.rules: Probe hd[a-z] as well, to cover CD
    drives on platforms (like powerpc) which still use IDE driver, like
    ide-pmac. (LP: #534912)
 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:28:34 +0200