KDE doesn't recognize CDs and DVDs after update.[Solved]

Primoz · 2010-11-06 01:08:33

Since the upgrade of KDE to 4.5.3 (but I'm not sure for before that) I can't get any Cds or DVDs to work.
I had few ideas to what could cause this, but they all proved wrong:
1)I forgot to load the modules when compiling the ck-kernel with streamline option. this isn't the case as it also doesn't work on kernel26-lts.
2)K3B is responsible for this. After the upgrade of KDe the next thing that could brake it was K3B, but actually K3B is the only KDE thing that still recognizes the DVDs and CDs. Did K3B change the premissions?
If that's the case how do i fix it. i followed the Wiki guide, and it still doesn't work. K3Bsettings don't give me any other option other than the one that is default.
3)I've installed kde-cdemu-manager from AUR, but I also removed it so that shouldn't be the problem, right?

And that's all the things I installed up to the point at which I noticed that KDE doesn't want to mount and doesn't even recognises CDs and DVDs.
But I could also post my pacman.log if you wish.

Thanks for help in advance.

Last edited by Primoz (2010-11-06 18:11:10)

qpieus · 2010-11-06 01:59:53

I came across this post a few days ago. Did hal get upgraded at the same time?

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=107009

karol · 2010-11-06 02:27:17

Are those disks empty / blank? Did those disks work (could be mounted) before? Can you mount them by hand?
Are you getting any error messages?

Last edited by karol (2010-11-06 02:27:44)

Primoz · 2010-11-06 17:27:29

qpieus wrote:

I came across this post a few days ago. Did hal get upgraded at the same time?
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=107009

Thanks, I hope this will solve it.
PS.: Well now it at least recognises it, but now I get this error: /media/cd folder not found.
I don't have any idea why this is so. Shouldn't the folder be created automatically?

Last edited by Primoz (2010-11-06 17:46:11)

Primoz · 2010-11-06 18:10:52

Silly me I should check the ArchWiki first: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HA … zed_by_HAL
Basically I only had to remove my cd and dvd rom from fstab and everything works.

(I also just in case removed the usb from it too, even though it worked, and it still does.)

PS.: Actually the Wiki is wrong. If you remove the /etc/hal/fdi/information/media-check-disable-storage_model_your-CD/DVD-model.fdi, HAL will just create new one after reboot. So changing it from false to true solves the problem.

Last edited by Primoz (2010-11-07 19:31:43)

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#1 2010-11-06 01:08:33

KDE doesn't recognize CDs and DVDs after update.[Solved]

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Re: KDE doesn't recognize CDs and DVDs after update.[Solved]

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Re: KDE doesn't recognize CDs and DVDs after update.[Solved]

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Re: KDE doesn't recognize CDs and DVDs after update.[Solved]

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Re: KDE doesn't recognize CDs and DVDs after update.[Solved]

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