Audio CD insertion causes crash/freeze, need help!

[dibl]

Re: Audio CD insertion causes crash/freeze, need help!

That actually works? Specifically, using <device> instead of /dev/scd0 ?

Actually, no.

To be certain, I just commented that line out and rebooted, and am now listening to classic Bee Gees on a CD, so it runs the CD/DVD drive with the /dev/scd0 line, not that goofy <device> line.

I think SheeEttin is correct -- I used "Disk and Filesystems" last week when I added a 750G hard drive (it's the sde drive), and apparently some liberties were taken with my fstab file!

[Snowhog]

Re: Audio CD insertion causes crash/freeze, need help!

-- I used "Disk and Filesystems" last week...and apparently some liberties were taken with my fstab file!

Certainly no 'gentleman' that D&F!

[dibl]

Re: Audio CD insertion causes crash/freeze, need help!

OK, I cleaned up my Kubuntu /etc/fstab -- look at this beauty:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# -- This file has been automaticly generated by ntfs-config -- 
#
# <file system> <mount point>  <type> <options>    <dump> <pass>
# Entry for /dev/sdb2 :
UUID=84445218-c1c0-41fc-9616-2c92a5a348d5 / reiserfs nouser,notail,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 1
# Entry for /dev/sdb3 :
UUID=788345ee-79d6-4298-bca3-e5b6f02f6a68 /home reiserfs nouser,defaults,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 2
# Entry for /dev/sda1 :
UUID=2db802ca-39f5-41f3-bcff-f23e9139a24e /media/sda1 reiserfs nouser,defaults,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 2
# Entry for /dev/sda3 :
UUID=4157eb7a-7a16-4ce7-8774-06f247c61dc6 /media/sda3 reiserfs nouser,defaults,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 2
# Entry for /dev/sdb1 :
UUID=8000EEFB00EEF6D6 /media/sdb1 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 1
# /dev/sdc1
UUID=d86128f3-f840-42c5-ad86-3ab72095e98f /media/sdc1 reiserfs nouser,defaults,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 2
# Entry for /dev/sdd1 :
UUID=5c75276d-48e9-4705-a19c-94210edf8c2a /media/sdd1 reiserfs nouser,defaults,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 2
# Entry for /dev/sdd3 :
UUID=9b7658da-59e1-4b2b-a4b9-fa3ee11b68cf /media/sdd3 reiserfs nouser,defaults,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 2
# Entry for /dev/sdd2 :
UUID=f9c52547-7ede-4e39-b35c-ce764f290de6 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sde1 /media/sde1 reiserfs nouser,defaults,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/sde2 /media/sde2 reiserfs nouser,defaults,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/sde3 /media/sde3 reiserfs nouser,defaults,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0

Now, I wonder about those other two Linuces on this platform .....

[dibl]

Re: Audio CD insertion causes crash/freeze, need help!

Heh!

In Ubuntu, this /etc/fstab line works just as well for the CD/DVD drive:

/dev/cdrom    /media/cdrom0  udf,iso9660 user,noauto   0    0

Go figure ....

[Snowhog]

Re: Audio CD insertion causes crash/freeze, need help!

Most likely, that's because cdrom is a symlink in the /dev directory:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2007-08-17 02:50 cdrom -> scd0

[nitewing98]

Re: Audio CD insertion causes crash/freeze, need help!

On using konsole to check my /dev directory, I find that I have /dev/cdrom0 which is a link to /dev/hdc. This is original from installing kubuntu or ubuntu, I started with Dapper Drake.

I'm trying the simplified entry and will post back after.

[dibl]

Re: Audio CD insertion causes crash/freeze, need help!

It looks like "/dev/hdx" is not actually illegal for a CD/DVD drive device, but it sure could get confusing if you're using "hdx" for hard drives -- especially if it falls in between "real" hard drives, like hdb between hda and hdc.

[Snowhog]

Re: Audio CD insertion causes crash/freeze, need help!

So what determines the device naming that gets put into /dev? The following are *all* the device names for my 1) internal 120G HD, internal CD/DVD, external USB Floppy, external USB IDE 60G HD, and external USB IDE 6G HD. The 120G HD contains mulitiple partions, including two for Windows Vista.

brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 11, 0 2007-08-17 02:50 scd0
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 2007-08-17 02:50 sda
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 2007-08-17 02:50 sda1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 2 2007-08-17 02:50 sda2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 3 2007-08-17 10:51 sda3
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 4 2007-08-17 02:50 sda4
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 5 2007-08-17 10:51 sda5
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 6 2007-08-17 02:50 sda6
brw-rw---- 1 root plugdev 8, 16 2007-08-17 10:50 sdb
brw-rw---- 1 root plugdev 8, 32 2007-08-17 10:50 sdc
brw-rw---- 1 root plugdev 8, 33 2007-08-17 10:50 sdc1
brw-rw---- 1 root plugdev 8, 37 2007-08-17 10:50 sdc5
brw-rw---- 1 root plugdev 8, 48 2007-08-17 10:50 sdd
brw-rw---- 1 root plugdev 8, 49 2007-08-17 10:50 sdd1

[nitewing98]

Re: Audio CD insertion causes crash/freeze, need help!

No dice, same behavior as before. However, I didn't try changing the device, I used /dev/hdc with the other params. I'll try using /dev/scd0 (assuming I have one).

[dibl]

Re: Audio CD insertion causes crash/freeze, need help!

So what determines the device naming that gets put into /dev?

There was once a well-established protocol in Unix, and later Linux, regarding "fd = floppy, hd_ = IDE hard drive, sd_ = SCSI hard drive" etc., but I think the proliferation of USB devices in recent years, including memory cards and external hard drives, has kind of blown that away, I believe the new UUID system is intended to return some order to the auto-numbering of attached storage devices, although you will hear varying opinions about whether it is a satisfactory solution.

[Snowhog]

Re: Audio CD insertion causes crash/freeze, need help!

Unless you reboot, or from a CLI, run (as root)

mount -a

any changes you make to fstab won't take effect.

[dibl]

Re: Audio CD insertion causes crash/freeze, need help!

No dice, same behavior as before.

The mouse lockup is not a happy sign. Is it a USB mouse or a PS/2 mouse?

[nitewing98]

Re: Audio CD insertion causes crash/freeze, need help!

Not just a mouse freeze, the whole system's coming down, I can't even log in from my remote machine.

Also, more info:

No /dev/scd0, which I expected, since I don't have scsi. However, mounting via konsole works fine. And when I insert the CD and the dialog comes up, cancelling it gets me an error dialog saying that "sound juicer cannot be found." And then it crashes again.

Sounds like there is still some part of the old Gnome install that is trying to force sound juicer to extract the disk. My options are a) install sound juicer again or b) figure out what's causing the link from CD insert to sound juicer and kill it.

Ideas?

(oh, and BTW, I want to thank everyone who's weighed in on this problem, you're getting to a solution, I can feel it. Thanks very much).

[dibl]

Re: Audio CD insertion causes crash/freeze, need help!

There's a "purge" option on the apt-get remove command, that might help to get rid of the vestiges of sound juicer. Check "man apt-get" to be sure -- I don't trust my memory on it.

There could also be a "file association" issue -- I'm not sure how that works, in all cases, but I know it applies to Konqueror.

[SheeEttin]

Re: Audio CD insertion causes crash/freeze, need help!

Yep, "sudo apt-get --purge remove sound-juicer" should do it.
apt-get takes the first argument without hyphens to be the action (e.g. "remove"), so --purge can come before or after the remove. I choose to put it in front.

One quirk of the "new media" dialog is that clicking "cancel" tells is to mount and do nothing else. To entirely ignore the media, you have to hit the Close button in the upper right. Thought I'd mention it, as it's annoyed me and isn't especially obvious.