[SOLVED] iso9660 not configured in kernel

Tx86 · 2023-10-06 22:49:42

I found a bunch of old CDs from my grandma's house that have a bunch of old family photos, but the computer that they used to make the CDs was a Windows computer. So now it seems that I cannot access them on my own Arch computer. The computer recognizes the CD and even the name, but every time I try to open it via Thunar file manager, it tells me "Error mounting /dev/sr0 at /run/media/user/Documents: Filesystem type iso9660 not configured in kernel..".

Is there a way to overcome this, or should I just go ahead and toss the CDs 'cause they're useless?

Post Solution Note:
My kernel was out of date. Updating it fixed the issue.

Last edited by Tx86 (2023-10-08 20:24:59)

dakota · 2023-10-06 22:59:27

What is the output of `uname -r` and `pacman -Q linux linux-headers`?

Tx86 · 2023-10-06 23:05:41

dakota wrote:

What is the output of `uname -r` and `pacman -Q linux linux-headers`?

"error: package 'linux-headers' was not found".

Should I download it?

mpan · 2023-10-06 23:34:40

No, post the output of the commands dakota asked you to run. The full output, not a single line taken out of it.

Tx86 · 2023-10-06 23:35:50

I'm just gonna download it.

dakota · 2023-10-06 23:37:05

Er... I don't know.

What I meant to ask was...

uname -r
pacman -Q linux

... to see if the installed kernel was up to date and the same as the kernel that you're booting from.

AFAIK, support for ISO9660 is built into the kernel. First let's see what kernel you have.

Cheers,

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Tx86 · 2023-10-06 23:38:51

dakota wrote:

Er... I don't know.
What I meant to ask was...
uname -r
pacman -Q linux
... to see if the installed kernel was up to date and the same as the kernel that you're booting from.
AFAIK, support for ISO9660 is built into the kernel. First let's see what kernel you have.
Cheers,

They're not the same.

Pacman says I'm using 5.15.133-1. uname says that I'm using 5.15.131-1.

Last edited by Tx86 (2023-10-06 23:40:34)

dakota · 2023-10-06 23:51:00

5.15? You haven't upgraded your system since Feb 2022?

I'd start with a full system upgrade. (Be sure to read the Home Page for manual interventions that are required.)

Cheers,

Tx86 · 2023-10-06 23:53:57

Okay. Look, is there a way we can just ignore this for now and go over what I would need to do if my kernel was up to date? I'm just trying to get these family photos copied to my computer, man.

ewaller · 2023-10-06 23:56:38

So, the problem is your kernel, 5.15.131-1 cannot find it modules because the ones installed are from 5.15.131-1. This happens when you update your system, but your boot partition is not properly mounted at the time.

So, yes, you will probably be able to recover your photos.
Your system needs some love first. As Dakota points out, it is grossly out of date. And, you need to fix the configuration so the kennel can find its loadable modules when it needs them -- like to access iso9660 file systems.

Tx86 · 2023-10-07 00:01:05

ewaller wrote:

So, the problem is your kernel, 5.15.131-1 cannot find it modules because the ones installed are from 5.15.131-1. This happens when you update your system, but your boot partition is not properly mounted at the time.
So, yes, you will probably be able to recover your photos.
Your system needs some love first. As Dakota points out, it is grossly out of date. And, you need to fix the configuration so the kennel can find its loadable modules when it needs them -- like to access iso9660 file systems.

Dang, okay. So, how do I update the kernel? I update the packages regularly, about once a month or so. I just updated it last night. So would I use pacman to update the kernel to 1.15.133-1, instead of 131-1?

dakota · 2023-10-07 00:15:12

Tx86 wrote:

So, how do I update the kernel?

The same way you update all your packages.

What command are you using to update your system? And, how do you mount your boot partition prior to running that command?

Cheers,

ewaller · 2023-10-07 00:18:47

The big problem is probably your boot media is not mounted when you update. What is the output of mount | grep boot ?

Tx86 · 2023-10-07 00:22:29

There is no output. Is that a good thing, or bad?

Tx86 · 2023-10-07 00:25:08

dakota wrote:

Tx86 wrote:
So, how do I update the kernel?
The same way you update all your packages.
What command are you using to update your system? And, how do you mount your boot partition prior to running that command?
Cheers,

 sudo pacman -Syu

And as far as I know, the boot partition should be automatically mounted? But I'm honestly not sure.

ewaller · 2023-10-07 00:31:00

Tx86 wrote:

There is no output. Is that a good thing, or bad?

More like, Not Good™

Not having it mounted means nothing can tamper with the kernel that gets loaded on boot. Unfortunately, that includes pacman

Please post the output of lsblk -f and, if you can, tell us what is your boot partition from that output.

dakota · 2023-10-07 00:35:45

sudo pacman -Syu

That is correct, but I don't really understand how Pacman can report you've installed 5.15.133-1 if you run updates monthly.*

As far as mounting goes, that will depend on how your system is configured.

Please post

lsblk -f
cat /etc/fstab

* Edit - or "last night", post #11

Last edited by dakota (2023-10-07 16:08:36)

Tx86 · 2023-10-07 00:35:52

ewaller wrote:

Tx86 wrote:
There is no output. Is that a good thing, or bad?
More like, Not Good™
Not having it mounted means nothing can tamper with the kernel that gets loaded on boot. Unfortunately, that includes pacman
Please post the output of lsblk -f and, if you can, tell us what is your boot partition from that output.

NAME   FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID                                 FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
sda                                                                           
├─sda1 ext4   1.0         b7744f57-3421-47e8-a824-f0eecf43f7fe  565.7G    33% /
└─sda2 swap   1     swap  bd39408b-acef-444a-961a-9b7c5791abb3                [SWAP]
sr0

This is what it said.

Tx86 · 2023-10-07 00:38:04

dakota wrote:

sudo pacman -Syu
That is correct, but I don't really understand how Pacman can report you've installed 5.15.133-1 if you run updates monthly.
As far as mounting goes, that will depend on how your system is configured.
Please post
lsblk -f
cat /etc/fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a device; this may
# be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices that works even if
# disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system>             <mount point>  <type>  <options>  <dump>  <pass>
UUID=b7744f57-3421-47e8-a824-f0eecf43f7fe /              ext4    defaults,noatime 0 1
UUID=bd39408b-acef-444a-961a-9b7c5791abb3 swap           swap    defaults,noatime 0 0

I posted the output of

 lsblk -f

to the other guy.

dakota · 2023-10-07 01:40:10

dakota wrote:

I don't really understand how Pacman can report you've installed 5.15.133-1 if you run updates monthly.

Please post your pacman log and a journal from the last boot

cat /var/log/pacman.log | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st
journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

Cheers,

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Scimmia · 2023-10-07 03:55:14

What does pacman -Qi linux give you?

Scimmia · 2023-10-07 04:02:26

dakota wrote:

sudo pacman -Syu
That is correct, but I don't really understand how Pacman can report you've installed 5.15.133-1 if you run updates monthly.

Because 5.15.133 was only released 2 weeks ago.

dakota · 2023-10-07 04:38:28

Scimmia wrote:

Because 5.15.133 was only released 2 weeks ago.

Where do you find that? (I must be looking in the wrong place?)

$ uname -r
6.5.5-arch1-1

$ pacman -Q linux
linux 6.5.5.arch1-1

Scimmia · 2023-10-07 04:39:36

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/ke … =v5.15.133

dakota · 2023-10-07 04:58:08

Thank you!

But that wouldn't be the output from `uname -r` and `pacman -Q linux` [as reported in post #7] would it?

Cheers,

Edit - Scimmia's link above was useful, but this link showed me more information about the different kernel branches and when they were last updated.

Last edited by dakota (2023-10-07 16:11:15)

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