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[Edgy] Optical Drives not registered in HAL

Bug #56726 reported by Toby Smithe
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hal (Ubuntu)
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nautilus (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

I'm surprised I couldn't find another bug on this topic, but I didn't; and so I filed this one. I'm sure it's also known about, but I'd like to be sure I know what's going on.

When I try to burn a CD, I don't get the option to burn using my CD writer - only to an image. There's not much point burning an image to an image, so I'm guessing this is broken. It mightn't be nautilus though - could be udev or something (but I don't know anything about that). Do correct me if I'm wrong.

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Tim Fuchs (tim-fuchs) wrote :

It seems to be a problem with HAL. Other applications (sound juicer) which detect CD/DVD drives through HAL don't work either.

I think the error occured after the /dev/hd* -> /dev/sc* transition.

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Toby Smithe (tsmithe) wrote :

Probably... But nothing to do with the transition though, as my drive is (and always has been) scd0.

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Toby Smithe (tsmithe) wrote :

Changed bug to hal

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Hussam Al-Tayeb (hussam) wrote :

The problem that I saw is the the nautilus-cdburning process jast hangs when I click 'burn'.
Also, when dragging files to the nautilus-cdburning files, they don't always get copied over.

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Vassilis Pandis (pandisv) wrote :

I can confirm the OP's problem. I will be more than happy to provide any information neccessary to fix this.

Changed in hal:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Hussam Al-Tayeb (hussam) wrote :

In my case, a empty cd icon is placed on the desktop but the nautilus cd burning hangs and won't use it. Gnomebaker can still use it.
Is this the same behavior or another problem?

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Toby Smithe (tsmithe) wrote : Re: [Bug 56726] Re: [Edgy] CD burning broken in nautilus

This is another problem. I don't experience these effects. Just the lack
of writing support.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote : Re: [Edgy] CD burning broken in nautilus

could you run /usr/lib/nautilus-cd-burner/list_cddrives and lshal and attach the logs to the bug?

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Toby Smithe (tsmithe) wrote :

/usr/lib/nautilus-cd-burner/list_cddrives outputs nothing. Attaching lshal output.

Mark Reitblatt (mark-reitblatt)
Changed in hal:
importance: Untriaged → High
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Alexander Jones (alex-weej) wrote :

I'm experiencing this, too. Can we change the bug title to "Optical Drives not detected in HAL" or something more appropriate?

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Alexander Jones (alex-weej) wrote :

From my hald log:

19:43:08.487 [I] hotplug.c:208: /sys/block/sr0 is a block device (devpath)
19:43:08.487 [I] blockdev.c:589: block_add: sysfs_path=/sys/block/sr0 dev=/dev/scd0 is_part=1, parent=0x00000000
19:43:08.487 [I] blockdev.c:499: get_luks_uuid: device_file=/dev/scd0
19:43:08.488 [I] blockdev.c:625: Ignoring hotplug event - no parent
19:43:08.488 [W] blockdev.c:990: Not adding device object

Is this the problem?

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Toby Smithe (tsmithe) wrote :

Looks rather like it. I wanna know, though, why it's "not adding device object".

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Alexander Jones (alex-weej) wrote :

It's the fact that the device has a NULL parent.

My CD drives, floppy drives, RAM disks and DeviceMapper devices all have the same problem.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Rejecting nautilus task.

Changed in nautilus:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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