apt-get wonder.....

[Bruce Marshall]

On 09/27/2014 03:36 PM, Bill Vance wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, 27 Sep 2014, Scott DuBois wrote:
>
>> On 09/26/2014 09:58 PM, Bill Vance wrote:
>>>
>>> Howdy;
>>>
>>> I recently did an apt-get update/upgrade, and
>>> have since noted a few oddities:
>>>
>>> 1.  I can no longer watch movies on my DVD drive.
>>>
>>> I traced that down to the designation of the drive I
>>> use from, being changed from sr0 to sr1.  After
>>> changing a few settings to suit, I hit the, "play",
>>> button and get to watch vlc completely vanish.
>>> nothing in the log file, but this in /var/log/syslog:
>>>
>>>
>>> Sep 26 21:39:47 xpresso kernel: [50705.834624]
>>> vlc[20612]: segfault at 0 ip b5386d84 sp b04c65f0
>>> error 4 in libdvdnav.so.4.2.0[b537d000+18000]
>>>
>>>
>>> Is this something fixable, or something the programmer
>>> is going to have to do?
>>>
>>> Bill
>>>
>>
>> Hmm, how annoying! :-S
>>
>> After reading your post, I opened VLC, inserted a disk and got the same
>> "cannot open sr0 error" so I selected sr1 from the dropdown under Media
>> -> Open Disc way at the bottom. It's working here.
>>
>> Have you tried going through the motions under a "default" user profile
>> to see if it's a user setting? Sometimes our _personal_ settings can get
>> in the way of functionality.
>
> Apparently the whole libdvd suite is acting hoaky.  I logged onto
> a shell as a different user, and tried vlc from the command line,
> and got:
>
>
> libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 4.2.0
> libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.13 for DVD access
> libdvdread: Could not open /dev/sr1 with libdvdcss.
> libdvdread: Can't open /dev/sr1 for reading
> libdvdnav: vm: failed to open/read the DVD
> libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.13 for DVD access
> libdvdread: Could not open /dev/sr1 with libdvdcss.
> libdvdread: Can't open /dev/sr1 for reading
> [0x8f52a88] dvdread demux error: DVDRead cannot open source: /dev/sr1
> [0xb3c067f0] main input error: open of `dvd:///dev/sr1' failed
>
>
> Checking /etc/mtab, things seem ok near as I can tell.
>
> /dev/sr1 /media/IRON_MAN_3 udf ro,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,
> iocharset=utf8,umask=0077,dmode=0500,uhelper=udisks 0 0
>
> Could be some corrupted dataset the libdvd suite looks at, but
> it really looks more like the suite.
>
> Bill
>
Really hate to throw this in...   but VLC is working fine on 14.10     
(but maybe it'll get messed with later on)

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      sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in her car.

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