User:Skierpage/CD drive woes
Kubuntu 11.04 was working fine in one AMD64-bit PC. I swapped my hard drive into another PC, HP Pavilion a1012x, and it booted right up and everything works fine! Except... on the new PC no Device Actions trigger when I insert a data CD, music CD, or DVD into either of its CD-ROM drives.
I don't get the "Available Devices" menu of options to Open with File Manager/VLC /Dragon, and the USB icon says "No Devices Available". I have the usual rules for this in System Settings > Device Actions, but they don't fire.
Works
A music CD shows up fine in dolphin, device action "kioclient exec audiocd:/" works fine, vlc can File > Open Disk > /dev/cdrom1" fine...
Inserting a USB flash drive makes "Available Devices" appear with option to mount it.
Tried
I tried system settings -> removable devices > enable automatic mounting of removable media, didn't help
Solid!
Maybe some hardware didn't get reconfigured.
The problem seems to be in the Solid layer.
% solid-hardware list details ... udi = '/org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sr0' parent = '/org/freedesktop/UDisks' (string) vendor = 'HP' (string) product = 'HP DVD Writer 640' (string) description = 'CD-RW/DVD±RW DL Drive' (string) Block.major = 11 (0xb) (int) Block.minor = 0 (0x0) (int) Block.device = '/dev/sr0' (string) StorageDrive.bus = 'Scsi' (0x3) (enum) StorageDrive.driveType = 'CdromDrive' (0x1) (enum) StorageDrive.removable = true (bool) StorageDrive.hotpluggable = false (bool) StorageDrive.inUse = false (bool) StorageDrive.size = 572993536 (0x22273000) (qulonglong) OpticalDrive.supportedMedia = 'Cdr|Cdrw|Dvd|Dvdr|Dvdrw|Dvdplusr|Dvdplusrw|Dvdplusdl' (0x1df
) (flag)
OpticalDrive.readSpeed = 0 (0x0) (int)
OpticalDrive.writeSpeed = 0 (0x0) (int)
OpticalDrive.writeSpeeds = {} (int list)
udi = '/org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sr0:media' parent = '/org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sr0' (string) vendor = 'HP' (string) product = 'HP DVD Writer 640' (string) description = 'CD-ROM' (string) Block.major = 11 (0xb) (int) Block.minor = 0 (0x0) (int) Block.device = '/dev/sr0' (string) StorageVolume.ignored = true (bool) StorageVolume.usage = 'Other' (0x0) (enum) StorageVolume.fsType = (string) StorageVolume.label = (string) StorageVolume.uuid = (string) StorageVolume.size = 572993536 (0x22273000) (qulonglong) OpticalDisc.availableContent = 'Audio|Data' (0x3) (flag) OpticalDisc.discType = 'CdRom' (0x0) (enum) OpticalDisc.appendable = false (bool) OpticalDisc.blank = false (bool) OpticalDisc.rewritable = false (bool) OpticalDisc.capacity = 572993536 (0x22273000) (qulonglong)
Solid knows there's an Audio Optical Disc plugged in, but it's ignored, and the System Settings > Device Actions rules include "The devices Ignored must equal false".
How do I tell Solid not to ignore the storage volume?!
Bugs
This sounds similar to Launchpad bug 709868 "kde 4.6 device actions broken".
He has the StorageVolume.ignored = true. He comments
- Ok... experimented a bit about how solid-hardware works and found what the latest problem is
- One needs to create /media/cdrom0 by hand.
- Solid does not manage mount points automatically creating dirs in media at need
- Solid does not anymore mount by label... namely should have mounted as /media/CDSTOMPER35 but mounts as /media/cdrom0
But I have a /media/cdrom symlinks to /media/cdrom0 , so that's not it. I have /dev/cdrom1 and cdrom2 symlinking to /dev/sr0 and /dev/sr1. Do I need to create a /media/cdrom1 ?
I filed KDE Bug 280229 "Device Actions don't trigger for my CD-ROM drives, StorageVolume.ignored"
Another bug TODO: none of the links on solid.kde.org work, they just redirect to the home page.
Other
System Settings > Multimedia > Audio CDs > General > Specify CD Device is /dev/cdrom. I don't have this, I have /dev/cdrom1 and /dev/cdrom2. Should I change this or is it another bug that this is wrong?