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DaveI

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Registered: 2008-06-22

Posts: 7

Blank dvds work in gnome but not xfce [solved]

Hi.

I have installed Arch with xfce4 and xfce4-goodies. When I put in a dvd with data on, an icon appears on the desktop and thunar starts up automatically. When I put in a blank dvd to burn it nothing happens, so I've tried to mount it with "mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /media/dvd" but I get the following message:

mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0,
       missing codepage or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

The result is I can't burn dvds. When I put back a working dvd (one with data on), using "mount" gives this line:

/dev/sr0 on /media/dvd type iso9660 (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,unhide,user=david)

I tried different cds and dvds but same thing every time so I installed gnome, put a blank dvd in and everything worked fine.  Back in xfce there's the same problem. I have tried different mounting commands such as using /dev/dvd, /dev/dvd0 and /dev/dvd1 but I get the same message. I've not been able to find a solution so if anyone has any suggestions/pointers I'd very much appreciate it. Thanks.

In case it useful here is my /etc/fstab file:

# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0

/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom   iso9660    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/cdrom1 /media/cdrom1   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/dvd /media/dvd   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/dvd1 /media/dvd1   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
UUID=0df20c9f-fe87-4800-8997-4f86b1d12aac / ext3 defaults 0 1
UUID=9f135728-6ef3-4802-b7d1-e45965a7fe52 /home ext3 defaults 0 1
UUID=f1f5e2d5-9ffd-47c2-bc30-877699da38c8 swap swap defaults 0 0

I am in groups lp wheel video audio optical floppy storage and users.

Last edited by DaveI (2008-08-18 16:49:04)

peart

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From: Kanuckistan

Registered: 2003-07-28

Posts: 510

Re: Blank dvds work in gnome but not xfce [solved]

Hello DaveI,

You can't mount blank media.  Mount makes a file system accessible, but since blank media has none, the mount operation fails.  XFCE might complain about the failed mount, but you should still be able to burn the DVD afterward.  I guess Gnome just fails silently?  I dunno, I don't use it.

Anyway, just burn your dvd without trying to mount it first.  Also, when trying to mount a DVD, you should specify udf as the file system, iso9660 is for CDs.

Ciao.

DaveI

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Registered: 2008-06-22

Posts: 7

Re: Blank dvds work in gnome but not xfce [solved]

Hello Peart.

In an attempt to keep my post as short as possible I neglected to mention that I attempted to burn some dvds with graveman but it kept bombing out with unspecific errors. Tonight I installed Brasero and it works ok, even in xfce. Just to make things more confusing, graveman now works ok as well. I've made no changes other than to install Brasero so I'm not really sure what has happened.

I'm grateful for your help. Thank you.