This bug is still alive. It has appeared on my computer. I'm using dapper drake 6.06. I have a sata dvd burner. I have verified that it is indeed either hal or gnome-volume-manager. I am to mount the disc manually. But hals auto-sensing features do not work with consistency on my dvd drive. Sometimes discs fail. Sometimes* after running that cdcaps.py Martin posted and relogging back in my cds work normally. One thing is this. Once gnome-volume-manager starts working it tends to stay that way and work beautifully until I restart my computer. I suspect some sort of command or something must be sent to my drive or something in order to get hal's heart beating again, but until that is discovered discs fail at random.
But here is the general pattern CD-r mostly work. Dvd-rs sometimes work. Dvd-rw's rarely work. Cd roms always work. Dvd-roms (real ones with print and artsy fartsy stuff on them) sometimes fail. I went through a set of cds in my 25 cd case book to determine this. Far from exhaustive, scientific expirement. But my cumulative experience seems to tell me burnt dvds don't do terribly good with Ubuntu. Atleast with my particular dvd drive. Unfortunately I do not have a spare dvd rom to test this with. Atleast one of any merit. This bug is still alive. It has appeared on my computer. I'm using dapper drake 6.06. I have a sata dvd burner. I have verified that it is indeed either hal or gnome-volume-manager. I am to mount the disc manually. But hals auto-sensing features do not work with consistency on my dvd drive. Sometimes discs fail. Sometimes* after running that cdcaps.py Martin posted and relogging back in my cds work normally.(weird!) One thing is this. Once gnome-volume-manager starts working it tends to stay that way and work beautifully until I restart my computer. I suspect some sort of command or something must be sent to my drive or something in order to get hal's heart beating again, but until that is discovered, discs fail at random. But here is the general pattern CD-r mostly work. Dvd-rs sometimes work. Dvd-rw's rarely work. Cd roms always work. Dvd-roms (real ones with print and artsy fartsy stuff on them) sometimes fail. I went through a set of cds in my 25 cd case book to determine this. Far from exhaustive, scientific expirement. But my cumulative experience seems to tell me so. Take a look at the verbose output from gnome-volume manager. All the discs are valid discs. You'll get a general feel of what I'm getting here. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ killall "gnome-volume-manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ killall "gnome-volume-manager" gnome-volume-manager: no process killed [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gnome-volume-manager -n manager.c/751: setting[0]: bool: autobrowse = 1 manager.c/751: setting[1]: bool: autoburn = 0 manager.c/746: setting[2]: string: autoburn_audio_cd_command = serpentine manager.c/746: setting[3]: string: autoburn_data_cd_command = nautilus --no-desktop burn: manager.c/751: setting[4]: bool: autoipod = 1 manager.c/746: setting[5]: string: autoipod_command = rhythmbox manager.c/751: setting[6]: bool: autokeyboard = 0 manager.c/746: setting[7]: string: autokeyboard_command = manager.c/751: setting[8]: bool: automount_drives = 1 manager.c/751: setting[9]: bool: automount_media = 1 manager.c/751: setting[10]: bool: automouse = 0 manager.c/746: setting[11]: string: automouse_command = manager.c/751: setting[12]: bool: autophoto = 1 manager.c/746: setting[13]: string: autophoto_command = gnome-volume-manager-gthumb %h manager.c/751: setting[14]: bool: autopalmsync = 0 manager.c/746: setting[15]: string: autopalmsync_command = gpilotd-control-applet manager.c/751: setting[16]: bool: autoplay_cda = 1 manager.c/746: setting[17]: string: autoplay_cda_command = sound-juicer -d %d manager.c/751: setting[18]: bool: autoplay_dvd = 1 manager.c/746: setting[19]: string: autoplay_dvd_command = totem %m manager.c/751: setting[20]: bool: autoplay_vcd = 1 manager.c/746: setting[21]: string: autoplay_vcd_command = totem %m manager.c/751: setting[22]: bool: autopocketpc = 0 manager.c/746: setting[23]: string: autopocketpc_command = multisync manager.c/751: setting[24]: bool: autoprinter = 0 manager.c/746: setting[25]: string: autoprinter_command = gnome-cups-add hal://%h manager.c/751: setting[26]: bool: autorun = 0 manager.c/746: setting[27]: string: autorun_path = .autorun:autorun:autorun.sh manager.c/751: setting[28]: bool: autotablet = 0 manager.c/746: setting[29]: string: autotablet_command = manager.c/760: settings[30]: float: percent_threshold = 0.050000 manager.c/760: settings[31]: float: percent_used = 0.010000 manager.c/3458: gvm_user_active_at_console: check-foreground-console returned with 0 manager.c/2630: Device added: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_empty_dvd_rom manager.c/2403: no sensible filesystem for /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_empty_dvd_rom manager.c/2420: Changed: /dev/scd0 manager.c/2728: Device removed: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_empty_dvd_rom manager.c/3458: gvm_user_active_at_console: check-foreground-console returned with 0 manager.c/2630: Device added: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_empty_dvd_plus_rw manager.c/2403: no sensible filesystem for /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_empty_dvd_plus_rw manager.c/2420: Changed: /dev/scd0 manager.c/2728: Device removed: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_empty_dvd_plus_rw manager.c/3458: gvm_user_active_at_console: check-foreground-console returned with 0 manager.c/2630: Device added: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_label_DVD1 manager.c/2420: Changed: /dev/scd0 manager.c/1841: mounting /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_label_DVD1... manager.c/2797: Mounted: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_label_DVD1 manager.c/902: executing command: nautilus -n --no-desktop '/media/dvdrecorder' manager.c/3458: gvm_user_active_at_console: check-foreground-console returned with 0 manager.c/2884: ejecting /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_label_DVD1... manager.c/902: executing command: /usr/bin/eject /dev/scd0 manager.c/2822: Unmounted: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_label_DVD1 manager.c/2728: Device removed: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_label_DVD1 manager.c/3458: gvm_user_active_at_console: check-foreground-console returned with 0 manager.c/2630: Device added: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_empty_dvd_plus_rw manager.c/2403: no sensible filesystem for /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_empty_dvd_plus_rw manager.c/2420: Changed: /dev/scd0 manager.c/2728: Device removed: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_empty_dvd_plus_rw manager.c/3458: gvm_user_active_at_console: check-foreground-console returned with 0 manager.c/2630: Device added: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_empty_dvd_plus_rw manager.c/2403: no sensible filesystem for /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_empty_dvd_plus_rw manager.c/2420: Changed: /dev/scd0 manager.c/2728: Device removed: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_empty_dvd_plus_rw manager.c/3458: gvm_user_active_at_console: check-foreground-console returned with 0 manager.c/2630: Device added: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_part_1_size_3791552512 manager.c/2403: no sensible filesystem for /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_part_1_size_3791552512 manager.c/2420: Changed: /dev/scd0 manager.c/1841: mounting /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_part_1_size_3791552512... manager.c/2797: Mounted: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_part_1_size_3791552512 manager.c/902: executing command: nautilus -n --no-desktop '/media/usbdisk' manager.c/3458: gvm_user_active_at_console: check-foreground-console returned with 0 manager.c/2884: ejecting /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_part_1_size_3791552512... manager.c/902: executing command: /usr/bin/eject /dev/scd0 manager.c/2822: Unmounted: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_part_1_size_3791552512 manager.c/2728: Device removed: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_part_1_size_3791552512 manager.c/3458: gvm_user_active_at_console: check-foreground-console returned with 0 manager.c/2630: Device added: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_empty_dvd_plus_rw manager.c/2403: no sensible filesystem for /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_empty_dvd_plus_rw manager.c/2420: Changed: /dev/scd0 manager.c/2728: Device removed: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_empty_dvd_plus_rw manager.c/3458: gvm_user_active_at_console: check-foreground-console returned with 0 manager.c/2630: Device added: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_empty_dvd_plus_rw manager.c/2403: no sensible filesystem for /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_empty_dvd_plus_rw manager.c/2420: Changed: /dev/scd0 manager.c/2728: Device removed: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_empty_dvd_plus_rw manager.c/3458: gvm_user_active_at_console: check-foreground-console returned with 0 manager.c/2630: Device added: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_empty_dvd_rom manager.c/2403: no sensible filesystem for /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_empty_dvd_rom manager.c/2420: Changed: /dev/scd0 manager.c/2797: Mounted: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_empty_dvd_rom manager.c/3458: gvm_user_active_at_console: check-foreground-console returned with 0 manager.c/2811: not in mount queue: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_empty_dvd_rom manager.c/3458: gvm_user_active_at_console: check-foreground-console returned with 0 manager.c/2884: ejecting /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_empty_dvd_rom... manager.c/902: executing command: /usr/bin/eject /dev/scd0 umount: only root can unmount /dev/scd0 from /media/cdrom0 /usr/bin/eject: unmount of `/media/cdrom0' failed manager.c/3458: gvm_user_active_at_console: check-foreground-console returned with 0 manager.c/2884: ejecting /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_empty_dvd_rom... manager.c/902: executing command: /usr/bin/eject /dev/scd0 umount: only root can unmount /dev/scd0 from /media/cdrom0 /usr/bin/eject: unmount of `/media/cdrom0' failed manager.c/3458: gvm_user_active_at_console: check-foreground-console returned with 0 manager.c/2884: ejecting /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_empty_dvd_rom... manager.c/902: executing command: /usr/bin/eject /dev/scd0 umount: only root can unmount /dev/scd0 from /media/cdrom0 /usr/bin/eject: unmount of `/media/cdrom0' failed manager.c/3458: gvm_user_active_at_console: check-foreground-console returned with 0 manager.c/2884: ejecting /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_empty_dvd_rom... manager.c/902: executing command: /usr/bin/eject /dev/scd0 umount: only root can unmount /dev/scd0 from /media/cdrom0 /usr/bin/eject: unmount of `/media/cdrom0' failed manager.c/2822: Unmounted: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_empty_dvd_rom manager.c/2728: Device removed: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_empty_dvd_rom I am willing to offer ssh, if thats what i takes to solve this problem. I have this page bookmarked. I will check back. Until the n I will try other gnome based distros to see if the problem remains. -- hal detects written DVD as empty https://launchpad.net/bugs/14692 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
