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akejo

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Registered: 2007-03-21

Posts: 98

New issues with CD and Gnome, please read my wall of text...

Hi all. I have a few issues with my installation and hoping to get to understand why things are as they are, also  hoping to have them resolved. Below is the issues I currently found the last days, and I hope anyone can bring some light to my now stuck braincells.. One which has to do with mounting cd/dvd and another with Gnome/conky and screenshots.

1. Mount cd's.

My fstab looks like this:

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom   iso9660   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd   udf   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0

My dvd player is detected at boot as
   
    scsi 6:0:0:0: CD-ROM            Optiarc  DVD RW AD-7170A  1.02 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5'

and is working nice this far. When I put a cdrom in the unit it spins up and nothing more, and thats how it should be, as I don't want any auto mount. But when I mount the disk, either using bash with 'mount /dev/cdrom' or via File Browser n Gnome, two(?) icons pop up on my desk(Using Arch disk as example):

Icon 1: Arch Linux BASE i686
Icon 2: Arch Linux BASE i686(2)

As you see on the below screenshot there's two icons(units) top left, apparently detected differently as gnome present two different types of icons...

I had also tried to install WoW via cedega direct to cd's, but wow installation couldn't find any installation data, and while looking on the disk itself I saw two files of one type where it should be only one(Installer Tome.mpq).  Cedega itself works nice as I've installed City of Villains with it and it is working nice.

When I click on the second CD-mount icon on my desktop I get 'The application nautilus has crashed'. I click OK on that window and the desktop then refresh and up pops the File Browser showing the disk... But it seems clicking the first icon don't crash nautilus.

So..

My question would be: anyone have an idea why gnome display two mounted disks on my desktop, the second one causing crashes, and Any pointers why the wow disk show two files of same type where it in fact only exist one?

EDIT: Can it have something to do that gnome detect the cd twice as its a dvd unit? (dvd and cd)

2 Screenshots..

I am usually using scrot to take screenies, but sometimes its nice to be able to just press PrtScr on keyboard. But when I do that Gnome says it failed to execute 'gnome-screenshot' as its not found. I've searched with pacman but have not found any package that says it contains 'gnome-screenshot'. I've also searched arch linux packages on the site but found no reference to gnome-screenshot.

EDIT: Seems I missed some packages. According to the wiki I should install gnome-extra, but as that don't exist I rumbled around with pacman and found 'gnome-utils' instead, checking the repository it seems as that is the one having gnome-screenshot.

[Issue 2 solved]

3. Gnome start and conky...

I autostart conky via gnome's own autostart function(system->Preferences->Sessions), but as gnome starts up conky just blinks then goes into hiding (under?) the actual desktop. I have to kill the conky process and start it manually again once everything is started.

This ends todays quirks, working to understand the how's and why's hoping to have it all smooth running soon.

// Thanks in advance.

Last edited by akejo (2007-03-26 12:08:45)

fishonadish

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Registered: 2006-11-04

Posts: 130

Re: New issues with CD and Gnome, please read my wall of text...

According to the wiki I should install gnome-extra, but as that don't exist I rumbled around with pacman and found 'gnome-utils' instead, checking the repository it seems as that is the one having gnome-screenshot.

gnome-extra is a package group rather than a package and gnome-utils is in the group

$ pacman -Sg gnome-extra
gnome-extra
    bug-buddy  dasher  eog  evince  file-roller  gcalctool  gconf-editor  gdm  
    gedit  gnome-audio  gnome-games  gnome-mag  gnome-netstatus  
    gnome-power-manager  gnome-python-desktop  gnome-speech  
    gnome-system-monitor  gnome-terminal  gnome-themes-extras  gnome-utils  
    gnome-volume-manager  gnomebaker  gnopernicus  goffice  gok  gucharmap  
    nautilus-cd-burner  orca  sound-juicer  vino  zenity

Sorry - that's no help with your problems, but in case you were curious . . .

akejo

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Registered: 2007-03-21

Posts: 98

Re: New issues with CD and Gnome, please read my wall of text...

Thanks.

I guess I will have to change mirror as there seems to be problems with my current, 'pacman -Ss gnome-extra' didnt show anything when I used it

EDIT: And... As I submitted that line my swedish mirror(ftp.gigabit.nu) seems to have done something.. Found gnome-extra and downloading the packages now with 500k

Reboot and see how it goes I guess <crosses fingers>

Last edited by akejo (2007-03-26 12:00:05)

fishonadish

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Registered: 2006-11-04

Posts: 130

Re: New issues with CD and Gnome, please read my wall of text...

I think pacman -Ss will only search for package names, not groups, so it'll output nothing when you search for a group name.  But pacman -S [group] means install all members of [group].  Anyway, glad you got there (although, there might be a few things in there you don't need - if you choose 'no' when asked if you want to 'install whole content?' then you are asked about each individual package in the group and can pick the ones you want.)

Fishondish

Last edited by fishonadish (2007-03-26 12:05:46)

akejo

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Registered: 2007-03-21

Posts: 98

Re: New issues with CD and Gnome, please read my wall of text...

Thanks, All what I liked is installed, screenshots work now, still have problems with conky though, and urxvt(also autostarted) who don't show borders until I click its window(but thats a minor thing)..

Perhaps cd's will work better now, volume manager is now also installed..

Still having problems with the CD, Gnome display 2 units on desktop, and in File Browser.

I have two lines in fstab(cd and dvd), and File Broswer show me 'CD-ROM' and 'CD-RW/DVD+/- Drive. Could this have something to do why gnome shows me two devices on desktop? If so, where would I lok around in the system to lower it to just one unit? Remove a line in fstab would prolly don't work as its two different filesystems in cd and dvd...

Last edited by akejo (2007-03-26 12:13:38)