GNOME & Multisession DVDs

[Vassili Zaitsev]

sktsee wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:28:06 +0000, Vassili Zaitsev wrote:
>
>   
>> Rashkae wrote:
>>     
>>> Vassili Zaitsev wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I was wondering if there was a workaround/solution to GNOME's
>>>> inability to recognise multisession DVDs.
>>>>
>>>> GNOME MPlayer, VLC and GnomeBaker appear to have no problem with them,
>>>> but Nautilus doesn't even recognise their presence. Unfortunately this
>>>> means that I'm unable to unmount/eject the discs once inserted and
>>>> have to reboot, pressing the drive's eject button just before Ubuntu
>>>> loads if I'm to have any chance of physically retrieving them!
>>>>
>>>> I had a look around Launchpad, and substituted "auto" for
>>>> "udf,iso9660" in fstab as advised
>>>> (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/144242),
>>>> but to no avail.
>>>>
>>>> With a multisession DVD inserted, the output for mount is as follows:
>>>>
>>>> /dev/sdb6 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type
>>>> proc (rw)
>>>> none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) none on
>>>> /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw) none on /sys/kernel/debug
>>>> type debugfs (rw) none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
>>>> udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755) none on /dev/pts type devpts
>>>> (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620) none on /dev/shm type tmpfs
>>>> (rw,nosuid,nodev) none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
>>>> none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) none on
>>>> /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755) /dev/sdb5 on /home type
>>>> ext3 (rw)
>>>> /dev/sda2 on /windows type fuseblk
>>>> (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,default_permissions,blksize=4096)
>>>> binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc
>>>> (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
>>>> /dev/sda1 on /dos type vfat (rw,utf8,umask=007,gid=46) /dev/sda5 on
>>>> /archive type ext3 (rw)
>>>> gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/vassili/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon
>>>> (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=vassili)
>>>> /dev/sr0 on /media/cdrom0 type udf (ro,nosuid,nodev,utf8,user=vassili)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This is presumably an extremely common problem with discs burned and
>>>> finalised on stand-alone DVD recorders, so it seems strange to find
>>>> the same problem in 9.10 as was occurring in a previous version of
>>>> Ubuntu over two years ago.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>>
>>>> Vassili
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> I've not seen this problem you are describing, so will have to take it
>>> on faith.
>>>       
>> You're too kind :)
>>
>>     
>>> obviously from the mount command, Nautilus did see and and mount the
>>> disc exactly as it should.
>>>       
>> An entry for the disc momentarily appears then promptly disappears from
>> the "Places" pane following insertion.
>>
>>     
>>> Presumably, your problem therefore is that you have no icon in under
>>> the "Computer" location, but that's easy to work around.  You can
>>> browes to the /media folder to access the files,
>>>       
>> When I navigate through to the mount point designated in fstab
>> (/media/cdrom0) the folder's empty. Very strange.
>>
>>     
>>> and you can can use "eject /dev/sr0" to eject the disc.  (Make a custom
>>> launcher with this command, and put it somewhere convenient for you.)
>>>       
>> Thanks!
>>     
>
> Shot in the dark, but try installing the package libudf0. It's not 
> installed by default, and I believe its the library needed to read/write 
> udf filesystems. That's what its package info says anyway.
>
>   
Drat! It didn't do the trick..