Thank you! I'm sixty and I raised and home schooled a disabled and difficult son all by myself from before birth, as his father died in a car accident only 3 months into the pregnancy. I have learned not to take life's little, and even not so little, frustrations personally or too seriously. He came out alright, in spite of 21 years of daily trauma, and is now on scholarships at University and getting straight A's and A+'s. So one must never give up, I have learned. He's thriving and happy, so it was all worth it.
However, there was not the media icon "3BF8-0A57" on the desktop, and when I tried to find it, clicking on a "button" that said "media" it gave me an error thingie, which I took a screen shot of and am attaching, if that helps. I searched everything I could think of, but couldn't find anything with an "eject" or "unmount" option, related to the media. So what I'll do is wait until I shut the computer off, and then remove it. Thank you for confirming that suspicion of mine, and also giving me an alternative. I'll watch more closely next time I insert it, and see if maybe I did something I wasn't aware of that deleted what I'm looking for. Now that I remember, there seemed to be two windows, by the time I'd checked the computer screen after fiddling with the thumb drive and finally getting it mounted properly (I assume). I didn't realize there were two at first, because I could only see the one. The other one, when I saw it, said something about an error, I think. I'll repeat the whole process, knowing better what's happening next time, and go through it all more slowly. I can't find the icon now, but perhaps next time I will be able to. I may have deleted it unknowingly. Or may have missed some other pertinent information that will help you solve this mystery. Thank you for explaining WHY not to try to remove it prematurely. It's really a lot more fun to use a computer when you understand how and why it does things and why you need to do things a certain way yourself. One of my biggest problems is not having a big enough vocabulary yet. Too many terms are still a mystery to me. Is there such a thing as a dictionary for defining computer terminology? Thank you for all your help, and I'll be waiting eagerly to see if something turns up tomorrow in your search for a solution to the mystery of the unresponsive relationship between my CD's, the computer, and the Ubuntu program or whatever is ignoring them. Till then, your grateful student, Doris > Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:13:34 +0000 > From: ben.v.r...@gmail.com > To: hazelbitsnatur...@hotmail.com > Subject: [Bug 478962] Re: Before Ubuntu upgrade to 9.10, the Rhythmbox > side pane had the item "Unknown" which I had to click to play inserted > CD's. That's missing, so I can't play CD's. Help! I don't know what to do, > if not that? > > Doris, thank you for the laugh. You are taking all of this in very > graceful strides. > > Yes this does help me a bit. It tells me that certain parts of Ubuntu > are working properly, and narrows down the list of possible sources of > problems. > > As for the thumb drive, you are absolutely correct that you don't want > to remove the thumb drive without "Ejecting" or "Unmounting" the device. > This process makes sure that there are no files still open and keeps > your files safe. On your desktop, you should see an icon with the name > of the drive (in this case, "3BF8-0A57"). If you right-click that icon > with your mouse, you should see a list of choices drop down. At/near > the bottom of that list, you should see "Eject" (maybe "Unmount", maybe > both). > > Click on "Eject" and the icon should disappear if it happened > successfully. At that point, it is safe to remove the thumb drive. If > a message comes up saying that it could not eject, then that means that > there is still something holding a file open on the device, and it has > to be closed and the process repeated. In rare cases, it is possible > that the computer can not seem to eject the device, then just wait until > you shut the computer down normally, and then you can remove the thumb > drive when the computer is off. > > As for the "Mystery slot", I am guessing that it is your 3 1/4 inch > floppy drive. These disks are rarely used anymore as they could only > hold a tiny amount of data compared to CDs and thumb drives. > > As for your original complaint about the CDs not registering, I am going > to do a little checking to see what the problem is and get back to you > tomorrow. > > -- > Before Ubuntu upgrade to 9.10, the Rhythmbox side pane had the item "Unknown" > which I had to click to play inserted CD's. That's missing, so I can't play > CD's. Help! I don't know what to do, if not that? > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/478962 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in “rhythmbox” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete > > Bug description: > When the upgrade for Ubuntu 9.10 was offered, I thought I was expected to > allow it to run, I am rather new at this stuff. It took all afternoon last > Sunday, a week ago, and since then I have encountered several unfamiliar > problems. The most disturbing is that the Rhythmbox no longer contains, in > the side pane, the option "Unknown" which I was able to play my inserted CD's > by clicking, once I had inserted one in the computer mechanism for that. At > that time, the computer monitor would also display a small window telling me > that it had noticed that I had inserted a CD and asking if I wished to use > Rhythmbox to listen to it. I would then click "okay" and it would disappear > that window and open Rhythmbox. At first I didn't know what to do, and it > took some trial and error to figure out, but I found that if I clicked on > "Unknown" the computer would oblige my wish to listen to the CD by listing > all of the tracks and that then when I clicked on "Play" it would oblige me > even further by doing so. I was very happy to discover how to do this, but > now there is no item "Unknown" listed, and therefore, having tried everything > I can find to click on, and to no avail, I am at my wits end, as I cannot > listen to my CD's at all. HELP! please? > > Apparently this involves firefox-3.5, and something about > /var/log/dist-upgrade/. I tried to figure out what is wanted for > information, but most of what I've read is beyond my vocabulary, > computer-wise, which is limited still. I am trying, but much is assumed, and > it is hard to figure out where to learn it from. Please try to help me get > my CD's to play. > > ProblemType: Bug > Architecture: i386 > Date: Sun Nov 8 23:36:48 2009 > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 > ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp > NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia > Package: yelp 2.28.0-0ubuntu2 > ProcEnviron: > LANG=en_CA.UTF-8 > SHELL=/bin/bash > ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic > SourcePackage: yelp > Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686 _________________________________________________________________ Ready. Set. Get a great deal on Windows 7. See fantastic deals on Windows 7 now http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9691818 ** Attachment added: "Screenshot.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35516000/Screenshot.png -- Before Ubuntu upgrade to 9.10, the Rhythmbox side pane had the item "Unknown" which I had to click to play inserted CD's. That's missing, so I can't play CD's. Help! I don't know what to do, if not that? https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/478962 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
