[SOLVED] K3b - No optical drive found

poliveira · 2014-01-19 20:11:23

I have this same problem when I start k3b.

I have installed cdrdao, cdrtools and dvd+rw-tools as dependencies for k3b, I have created burning group and set that settings on k3b "modify permissions", but something is not working as it's supposed, because any device is found:

ll /dev | grep sr0
or
ll /dev | grep cdrom

and no results, so my assumption its that some daemon that should be listening for changes on devices is not working... I assume that could be something with HAL daemon ( that I already have tried and no success) or other...

Screenshots:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/141 … dialog.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/141 … ttings.png

I have read that the problem could be related to KDE (that's my desktop environment) - https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/24643

PS: my optical DVD drive is external

Last edited by poliveira (2014-01-20 09:07:51)

WonderWoofy · 2014-01-19 20:34:35

I would not consider this an issue with k3b if your drive isn't even showing up in /dev. Does the drive show up in lspci (if it is a PCI device) or lsusb (if it is a USB device)?

poliveira · 2014-01-19 21:26:39

WonderWoofy wrote:

I would not consider this an issue with k3b if your drive isn't even showing up in /dev. Does the drive show up in lspci (if it is a PCI device) or lsusb (if it is a USB device)?

I have executed lsusb, but only had appeared the others devices (wireless mouse, etc), DVD External Drive did not appear at all...

Reading this article (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udisks#Udisks), I have tried to install udevil nothing appears to change...

WonderWoofy · 2014-01-19 21:36:51

Well, lsusb is a low level tool that simply reports whatever is plugged into your ports. If it is not showing up there, then there is no way a higher level tool like udevil or udisks{,2} will be able to help you there.

Are you sure that your optical drive is actually functional? It sounds as though you at least know that the USB ports themselves are working.

poliveira · 2014-01-19 21:50:21

WonderWoofy wrote:

Well, lsusb is a low level tool that simply reports whatever is plugged into your ports. If it is not showing up there, then there is no way a higher level tool like udevil or udisks{,2} will be able to help you there.

I know the command lsusb

WonderWoofy wrote:

Are you sure that your optical drive is actually functional? It sounds as though you at least know that the USB ports themselves are working.

I didn't now the what the problem was, but after instal udevil and changed USB ports, DVD started to be detected, and Linux Mint CD (inside drive) too... so, the problem could be the USB hub, wich is strange because it works with Wireless Mouse and Pen USB...

So, next I tried again K3b, something has changed, and a new message appears:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/141 … _error.png

And this error it's very strange because those packages are installed... :S

WonderWoofy · 2014-01-19 22:39:03

If the USB hub is not powered, then it very well could have been that the mouse and keyboard were simply sucking too much power to handle this additional device. This might have been especially true since an optical drive takes far more power than a HID perripheral.

Now unfortunately, we have reached a point at which I can no longer help you. I don't use k3b or any other graphical opitcal burning software. I just stick to the command line tools directly, which seem to be excellent. I am a cdrtools user myself.

poliveira · 2014-01-19 22:42:15

WonderWoofy wrote:

If the USB hub is not powered, then it very well could have been that the mouse and keyboard were simply sucking too much power to handle this additional device. This might have been especially true since an optical drive takes far more power than a HID perripheral.
Now unfortunately, we have reached a point at which I can no longer help you. I don't use k3b or any other graphical opitcal burning software. I just stick to the command line tools directly, which seem to be excellent. I am a cdrtools user myself.

I appreciate you previous help! Thank you...

but, the problem now, it's because some packages like cdrtools, I have installed them manually but seems that those installations does not persist.. :S

WonderWoofy · 2014-01-19 22:53:57

How would they not persist?! What is it you mean by "installed them manually"? Did you use pacman to install these? It would seem from 'pacman -Si k3b' that it depends on 'cdrkit' and not 'cdrtools' (though from what I have heard in the past, these should be drop-in replacements for each other). Since it is a dependency, you shouldn't need to do anything more than simply install k3b.

ewaller · 2014-01-19 23:09:20

As a sanity check, what gets added to the output of dmesg when you attach your optical drive?

poliveira · 2014-01-20 00:12:26

after again I typed:

sudo pacman -S cdrdao cdrtools dvd+rw-tools

after

sudo pacman -Syu

after finished, I tried k3b and started to burn a ISO into a CD, the process started, at this moment it is at 10%

WonderWoofy · 2014-01-20 00:33:06

That is good to hear. Please mark the thread as [Solved] if things are working as they should. You can do this by editing the first post.

poliveira · 2014-01-20 09:08:34

WonderWoofy wrote:

That is good to hear. Please mark the thread as [Solved] if things are working as they should. You can do this by editing the first post.

Done!

Thanks a lot for the help!

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