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#1 2020-02-13 20:45:11

Le Limule
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Registered: 2011-08-19
Posts: 11

[SOLVED] can't browse CDs/DVDs - they don't appear in file browsers

hello,

i can't browse CDs or DVDs. (it worked before)

when i put a CD/DVD in the DVD drive, the CD/DVD doesn't appear in the file browsers (Thunar, SpaceFM, pcmanfm).

(the device is /dev/sr0)

[guigui@guigui-ordi ~]$ mount
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
dev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=1720464k,nr_inodes=430116,mode=755)
run on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755)
/dev/sda3 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
tmpfs on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=755)
cgroup2 on /sys/fs/cgroup/unified type cgroup2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nsdelegate)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,xattr,name=systemd)
pstore on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
bpf on /sys/fs/bpf type bpf (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,mode=700)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/rdma type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,rdma)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/hugetlb type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,hugetlb)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,perf_event)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/devices type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls,net_prio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls,net_prio)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpu,cpuacct)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/pids type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,pids)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/memory type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,memory)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset)
systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=32,pgrp=1,timeout=0,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct,pipe_ino=12555)
mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
hugetlbfs on /dev/hugepages type hugetlbfs (rw,relatime,pagesize=2M)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
configfs on /sys/kernel/config type configfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw,relatime)
tmpfs on /run/user/1000 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=345584k,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=985)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=985)
[guigui@guigui-ordi ~]$ 
[guigui@guigui-ordi ~]$ 
[guigui@guigui-ordi ~]$ 
[guigui@guigui-ordi ~]$ mount | grep sr0
[guigui@guigui-ordi ~]$ 
[guigui@guigui-ordi ~]$ 
[guigui@guigui-ordi ~]$ 
[guigui@guigui-ordi ~]$ mount /dev/sr0
mount: /dev/sr0: impossible à trouver dans /etc/fstab.
[guigui@guigui-ordi ~]$ 

then i add "/dev/sr0 /media/cdrom udf,iso9660 user,noauto,ro 0 0" in fstab

[guigui@guigui-ordi ~]$ mount /dev/sr0
mount: /media/cdrom: /dev/sr0 déjà monté ou point de montage actif.
[guigui@guigui-ordi ~]$
 guigui@guigui-ordi ~]$ 
[guigui@guigui-ordi ~]$ 
[guigui@guigui-ordi ~]$ mount | grep sr0
[guigui@guigui-ordi ~]$ 

(* "already mount or mount point busy")

for information, this is the properties of /dev/sr0 i can have from SpaceFM:

DEVICE
/dev/sr0 removable ejectable optical no_media

USAGE
/dev/sr0      ( no media )

FSTAB
/dev/sr0 /media/cdrom udf,iso9660 user,noauto,ro 0 0

INFO
Showing information for /dev/sr0
  native-path:                 /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:11.0/ata2/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0/block/sr0
  device:                      11:0
  device-file:                 /dev/sr0
    presentation:              /dev/sr0
    by-id:                     /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ATAPI_iHAS122_C_3522526_3E8208501472
  system internal:             0
  removable:                   1
  has media:                   0
  is read only:                0
  is mounted:                  0
  mount paths:                 
  presentation hide:           0
  presentation nopolicy:       0
  presentation name:           
  presentation icon:           
  automount hint:              
  size:                        0
  block size:                  0
  usage:                       
  type:                        
  version:                     
  uuid:                        
  label:                       
  optical disc:
    blank:                     0
    appendable:                0
    closed:                    0
    num tracks:                0
    num audio tracks:          0
    num sessions:              0
  drive:
    vendor:                    ATAPI
    model:                     ATAPI   iHAS122   C
    revision:                  XL01
    serial:                    3522526_3E8208501472
    WWN:                       
    detachable:                0
    ejectable:                 1
    media:                     
      compat:                  optical_cd
    interface:                 scsi
    if speed:                  (unknown)

i can play audio CD / video DVD with a media player (vlc for example), but i can't browse CDs/DVDs with a file browser.

what can i do?

Last edited by Le Limule (2020-02-15 09:36:05)

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#2 2020-02-14 22:01:17

teckk
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Registered: 2013-02-21
Posts: 518

Re: [SOLVED] can't browse CDs/DVDs - they don't appear in file browsers

You can't mount an audio CD. It does not have a file system on it for you to mount. It has tracts on it. You can play it.

mplayer cdda://1

You can dump the tract to file if you want.

mplayer cdda://1 -ao pcm:file=file1.wav

A video DVD, such as a commercial one, has a iso 9660 file system on it and a directory structure. You can mount that to a directory. It is also content scrambled. Look at libdvdcss.

There are also optical disks that have a UDF file system on them. They are mountable too. Doesn't mean that you can do anything with them, but a iso9660 or udf file system is mountable.

Last edited by teckk (2020-02-14 22:01:46)

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#3 2020-02-15 08:42:34

Le Limule
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Registered: 2011-08-19
Posts: 11

Re: [SOLVED] can't browse CDs/DVDs - they don't appear in file browsers

thank you for your reply.

yes, i agree with you, we can't mount an audio CD. My problem is that i can't browse _data_ CD/DVD.

[guigui@guigui-ordi ~]$ sudo mount /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom
mount: /media/cdrom: /dev/sr0 déjà monté ou point de montage actif.
[guigui@guigui-ordi ~]$

(* "/dev/sr0 already mount or mount point busy")

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#4 2020-02-15 09:34:46

Le Limule
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Registered: 2011-08-19
Posts: 11

Re: [SOLVED] can't browse CDs/DVDs - they don't appear in file browsers

OK, i just made a little update of my system, and the problem disapeared.

(i was on the archive repository fixed on august 12th 2019, and now i fixed on august 19th 2019 - I mean that i change the repository date for archive.archlinux.org server in mirrorlist)

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#5 2020-02-15 14:31:24

teckk
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Registered: 2013-02-21
Posts: 518

Re: [SOLVED] can't browse CDs/DVDs - they don't appear in file browsers

Why are you doing that? Why aren't you bringing your machine up to date?
That's going to get worse over time. Or are you changing the repo date in /etc/pacman.conf and partially updating a few packages?

Wondering what the reason is for running old packages, kernel, etc.

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