Optical drives not available after Gutsy upgrade

[feffer]

After upgrading from Fiesty to Gutsy, my CD/DVD drives are not available. They neither show up on the desktop or in Konqueror. Also my HD icons don't show on the desktop although they are available in Konqueror. System Settings haven't fixed this. If I use Dolphin I get a message that "the feature is only available with HAL" I reinstalled HAL to no avail. Not sure how to fix this.

TIA,
feffer

[toad]

Re: Optical drives not available after Gutsy upgrade

I hope you are not talking about a Wubi installation here... If so, your hal is shot and can only be mended by editing some file or other. I had this once but don't remember the exact solution. Google wubi + hal and see where it takes you.

Even if it is not a Wubi installation hal appears to be your problem as it is the thing dealing with detachable drives (I assume USB sticks also fail to mount).

Sorry I cannot be of more help.

[Rog131]

Re: Optical drives not available after Gutsy upgrade

Maybe:

Various problems after upgrading to 7.10
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=595013

No automount after upgrade to Gutsy
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=584829

Laptop problems with HP 6510b series laptop
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...51&postcount=5


If not:

Check hardware

LinuxLogFiles
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LinuxLogFiles

Kernel Ring Buffer (dmesg) =>

In the konsole:

dmesg | grep CD/DVD-ROM

or

cat /var/log/dmesg | grep CD/DVD-ROM

Here it tells:

[ 26.794757] hdc: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4165B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
[ 27.577929] hdd: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 9100, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive

More info of hdc/hdd:

dmesg | grep hdc

or

:~$ cat /var/log/dmesg | grep hdc

Here:

[ 25.424700] ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddMA
[ 26.794757] hdc: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4165B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
[ 27.827799] hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)

lshw - list hardware

DESCRIPTION
lshw is a small tool to extract detailed information on the hardware
configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory configuration,
firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU version and speed, cache
configuration, bus speed, etc. on DMI-capable x86 or IA-64 systems and
on some PowerPC machines (PowerMac G4 is known to work).

In the konsole:

sudo lshw

Output to the textfile:

sudo lshw > Hardware.txt

Html output:

sudo lshw -html > Hardware.html

Here:

id:
cdrom:0
description: DVD-RAM writer
product: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4165B
physical id:
0
bus info:
ide@1.0
logical name:
/dev/hdc
version: DL05
serial: 520063AFA2BE
capabilities: packet atapi cdrom removable nonmagnetic dma lba iordy pm audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram
configuration:
mode = udma2
status = nodisc

[feffer]

Re: Optical drives not available after Gutsy upgrade

@toad, no this was an upgrade install from fiesty. No windows on the HD at all.

@Rog131, thx for the detailed suggestions. After the upgrade, I noticed my fstab options got very complex. I simplified these to

/dev/hdc    /media/cdrom0  udf,iso9660 user,noauto   0    0
/dev/hdd    /media/cdrom1  udf,iso9660 user,noauto   0    0

for the CD/DVD and

UUID=50def466-e268-406e-9e63-88656464826b / ext3 defaults,auto 0 1

for example on other partitions. Still no icons on the desktop after reboot, but now inserting a DVD or thumb drive makes all the icons pop up on the desktop, and more importantly the CD or DVD can be accessed. HAL still complains, however, if I try to safely remove a thumb drive as a normal user. I must sudo umount from the term.

Although I've done two other upgrade installs of Gutsy that worked well, I think the lesson for me, is that a straight install and reconfigure is safer. Not as convenient, though.

Regards,
feffer

[toad]

Re: Optical drives not available after Gutsy upgrade

feffer, quite right that upgrades can be troublesome. Also a prime motivation to not go for the suggested partitioning scheme but perhaps have your own /boot and certainly your own /home

[Snowhog]

Re: Optical drives not available after Gutsy upgrade

Re: hal-storage-fixed-mount refused uid 1000