Re: Mounting Music CD's Causes System Freeze
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 07:38:44PM -0800, jantzen wrote:
> > When you say couldn't read DVDs, do you mean that you couldn't mount a
> > data DVD, couldn't watch a movie, or couldn't mount a movie DVD?
>
> Hi Doug,
>
> The answer is "yes" :) The original drive reacted to movie DVDs and DVD-RWs by buzzing and whirring
> for a little while before giving up, sometimes ejecting the disk, but it could read normal CDs and
> CDRs just fine. Now, with the replacement, I can read DVD-RWs and CD-Rs, but not music discs. The icon will
> pop up on the desktop with label "Music Disc" (or something close to that), and within 30 seconds the machine will
> lock up. Clicking the icon causes the machine to lock immediately.
>
Try to isolate the problem. In case its a desktop (Gnome?) problem,
boot up into a regular shell, not graphics. Try to mount the CD-R and
DVD-RW and read the filesystem. Try to play a music CD with a
text-based cdplayer. If any of this fails, you should get some usefull
error messages. If it all works then the problem is with Gnome.
Doug.
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