[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2011-02-03 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: hal Importance: Unknown => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/66254 Title: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@list

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2011-01-25 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: hal Importance: Medium => Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/66254 Title: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@list

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2008-03-06 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package hal - 0.5.10+git20080301-1ubuntu1 --- hal (0.5.10+git20080301-1ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low * Merge with Debian to pull in a current snapshot from upstream git head (upstream neglects doing a long-overdue 0.5.11 release). This pulls in two to

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2008-03-06 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: hal Status: Unknown => Fix Released -- empty CD not correctly recognized by hal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/66254 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ub

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2008-03-05 Thread Martin Pitt
** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #12822 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12822 ** Also affects: hal via https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12822 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- empty CD not correctly recognized by hal https://bugs.launchpa

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2008-03-05 Thread Martin Pitt
This patch is included in my currently prepared Hardy hal upload. You can already test it now by installing the packages in my PPA: https://launchpad.net/~pitti/+archive ** Changed in: hal (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Martin Pitt (pitti) Status: Triaged => Fix Committed -- empt

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2008-03-03 Thread Greg Grossmeier
** Changed in: hal (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Triaged -- empty CD not correctly recognized by hal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/66254 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@li

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2007-10-28 Thread David C
Alberto: just seen that someone has filed a bug report that sounds like it might be your issue: Bug #158033. -- empty CD not correctly recognized by hal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/66254 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for U

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2007-10-27 Thread DarkMageZ
alberto... this bug report is not related to your problem and should only be used for things that are related to this bug. please use the answers section to seek help or file your own bug report. -- empty CD not correctly recognized by hal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/66254 You received this b

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2007-10-27 Thread Alberto Piai
I run hald from a shell, as $ sudo hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes 2>&1 | tee hal.log I confirm, when i insert a blank disk no debug output is shown, just no reaction at all. In hal-device-manager the cd drive is listed as a scsi device, DVDRW GWA4080MA. All the properties like store.cdrom.cdr, c

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2007-10-24 Thread David C
This does not look like the problem I addressed with my patch, as it is unllkely your CD drive is not MMC-2, and the problem would have showed up in Feisty. Not sure the wiki is quite appropriate, but certainly check HAL output: as well as using HALD in debug mode you can use the HAL device manage

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2007-10-24 Thread Alberto Piai
Hi all, I'm having the same problem with Gutsy on a Macbook. HAL doesn't seem to recognize blank CDs and DVDs. Used to work just fine with Feisty, though. Inspected the log output of udev, gnome-volume-manager and hald, as in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingRemovableDevices, but none of them sho

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2007-09-01 Thread Ulrich Büchsel
Thank you David. Your patch worked for me too. My own patches posted on 2007-07-07 and 2007-07-08 don't work. I'm still trying to make them work. Unfortunately ubuntu update notifier constantly suggests to replace the patched version with a more recent version because I applied the patch to versio

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2007-07-31 Thread David C
I did it myself. I have made a patch to HAL that might fix this problem for you. ** Attachment added: "Patch to HAL to fix problem with old drives." http://launchpadlibrarian.net/8641865/68-disc_identification.patch -- empty CD not correctly recognized by hal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2007-07-24 Thread David C
Mmm, interesting, I realise others are stumbling around the same problem as I have, though I had made my comments on https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/109763. As the HAL specification says that volume.disc.capacity is not mandatory, I guess HAL developers may not accept the idea of including the co

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2007-07-08 Thread Ulrich Büchsel
** Attachment added: "Changes uncommented" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/8335900/get_disc_type -- empty CD not correctly recognized by hal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/66254 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. --

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2007-07-07 Thread Ulrich Büchsel
Hello! I tried to apply the suggested changes to the source code of hal, but even before this I didn't manage to compile hal. It always ends up with an error message like this: /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../../lib/libpci.a(names.o): In function `pci_load_name_list': (.text+0x538): u

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2007-07-01 Thread Ulrich Büchsel
Hello! I have the same problem with my Lite-on LTR-12101B CD burner since the upgrade from ubuntu 6.06 to 6.10. Interestingly hal under 6.06 didn't recognize inserted media either. So my first supposition was that a change in the code of nautilus-cd-burner was responsible for the error. I found o

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2007-06-22 Thread Sika
Thanks a lot Thorsten ! Now I can burn cds with nautilus. The last problem is that brasero still says "no disc" when I insert a blank cd. Maybe it's a brasero bug ? -- empty CD not correctly recognized by hal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/66254 You received this bug notification because you ar

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2007-06-21 Thread Thorsten Schoel
Hello Sika, the .fdi won't work with the new hal from feisty-backports since that version doesn't support the uint64 data type anymore for whatever reason. If you have the feisty-backports channel active downgrading hal to the feisty version will likely do the job. -- empty CD not correctly re

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2007-06-18 Thread Sika
Here is a full hal debug output (as described on the second half of https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingRemovableDevices). ** Attachment added: "hak debug log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/8118347/hal.log -- empty CD not correctly recognized by hal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/66254 You rece

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2007-06-16 Thread Sika
I have the same problem. My burner is a LG CED 8080B. I've tried to create the .fdi file of Thorsten Schoel but it simply don't work (volume.disc.type and volume.disc.capacity are not changed). I've tried to use cdrecord and it seems to work. If you need some infos just ask. -- empty CD not corr

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2007-05-08 Thread Madmoose
** Attachment added: "lshal" http://librarian.launchpad.net/7582433/lshal -- empty CD not correctly recognized by hal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/66254 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2007-05-08 Thread Madmoose
Hello, Ubuntu Edgy: 6.10 Serpentine 0.7 doesn't see blank disks for me too. If you need more info just drop me an email. ** Attachment added: "cddrives" http://librarian.launchpad.net/7582431/List%20cddrives -- empty CD not correctly recognized by hal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/66254

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2007-05-07 Thread scorcher
Thorsten Schoel, Thank you for the workaround it works perfectly. -- empty CD not correctly recognized by hal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/66254 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubunt

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2007-05-07 Thread Thorsten Schoel
** Attachment removed: "10-cd-r.fdi" http://librarian.launchpad.net/7352962/10-cd-r.fdi -- empty CD not correctly recognized by hal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/66254 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubunt

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2007-05-02 Thread Thorsten Schoel
The file I tried to attach above is a perfect workaround as long as you only use media of one type and size. The upload was broken though, so I'll attach it again here. As I said above it goes to /etc/hal/fdi/information. ** Attachment added: "10-cd-r.fdi" http://librarian.launchpad.net/75256

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2007-05-02 Thread Thorsten Schoel
Well, I don't know why, but launchpad won't allow me to attach that file. So here are its contents: -cut- cd_r

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2007-05-01 Thread Jerome Potts
My workaround was to use X-CD-Roast instead, but the drive recently failed on me, cdrecord had quit working too. So i replaced the cheap 2001 HP 'R/RW 8x4x32' with a 2002 'CDWRITER IDE2410' and that solved the pbm for me. But yes, with the old drive before its failure, X-CD-Roast wasn't giving me a

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2007-05-01 Thread Helge Reikeras
a workaround would be to use cdrecord -- empty CD not correctly recognized by hal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/66254 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2007-05-01 Thread scorcher
Is their anyone still working on this bug or anyone who has found a workaround? I am affected by it and it is the only thing keeping me from upgrading my dapper installation to feisty. If there is anything I can do to help get this fixed let me know. -- empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2007-04-21 Thread Thibaut Cao
No it isn't. I have the problem since edgy. Maybe the backend for nautilus cd-burner changed then to make use of HAL. -- empty CD not correctly recognized by hal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/66254 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug cont

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2007-04-20 Thread John Williams
In thinking about this some more, I am wondering if this problem is related to the change from PATA to SATA drivers in 2.6.20. I wonder if the old IDE driver has some special code to handle older drives that gave bogus data. That is the only reason I can think of to be causing this sort of problem

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2007-04-19 Thread Thorsten Schoel
the attatched file goes into /etc/hal/fdi/information. This fixes the problem for me but might not fix it for everyone. The script simply changes anything that is a volume with a parent that can burn cd-rs and that has an unknown type and is blank into a cd-r with 700MB. This is certainly not a rea

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2007-04-19 Thread Thorsten Schoel
Yes, cdrecord does work properly (it says something like "drive reports wrong startsec of -150 for track 1. assuming startsec 0" though). neither nautilus-cd-burner nor brasero work though. Last time it worked was on dapper. btw i tries writing an fdi script to change the values in hal. This made

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2007-04-18 Thread DarkMageZ
oddly enough. this used to work fine in edgy & dapper. -- empty CD not correctly recognized by hal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/66254 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2007-04-18 Thread John Williams
Thorsten, does cdrecord work properly? In my case, cdrecord works but CD-Creator does not. My read of the hal code is that it is at the mercy of the drive firmware (or device driver). It performs no added value other than issueing the ioctl and mapping the content appropriately. -- empty CD not

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2007-04-18 Thread Thorsten Schoel
Well it seems that my drive (which is affected - see dup #72654) does report the correct size which is 359849 sectors (with 2048 Bytes in each sector that makes about 700MB), at least according to cdrecord dev=/dev/hdd -atip. Unfortunately it does report a wrong start sector (i.e. start of lead in

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2007-04-18 Thread John Williams
Both good points. Here is my view/opinion on how to proceed. BTW, this will have to be fixed upstream in Gnome... First, cdrecord probably does not check the capacity prior to recording, and will fail if the eventutal amount of data to be copied to the drive exceeds the capacity of the cd. So, it

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2007-04-18 Thread Michael Barker
The drive I am using is a External SCSI HP 9600 (from dup bug 69033). It is only 5 years old. I would prefer that this bug was investigated (and hopefully fixed) rather than deffered. -- empty CD not correctly recognized by hal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/66254 You received this bug notifica

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2007-04-17 Thread sharpkiddie
Please don't be so hasty to write this one off and advise users to upgrade: the drive I'm having problems with is in a relative's 6/7 year old Dell, so probably not an uncommon piece of kit (and certainly not that old). How come cdrecord functions fine with the drive if there is some fundamental f

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2007-04-17 Thread John Williams
BTW, This drive is a CDWriter IDE 8432. This was a fairly common drive. Bet that most of these type reports are due to the various rebadged drives of this type. This one was made by BTC for CDWriter, I think. Best to defer this bug and recommend that they upgrade to newer hdwe. No firmware avail fo

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2007-04-17 Thread John Williams
I think this may be due to buggy cd rom firmware, if my rusty code reading skills are still valid. In probe_volume.c, it appears that the ioctl data back from the driver is bogus for blank media. For sure, the disc.type field is being marked as unknown. If I put in a non-blank disk, I get valid siz

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2007-04-17 Thread John Williams
I will confirm that this problem is still happening on the RC version of Feisty. Can pull logs, etc if needed... using cdrecord worked just fine so no hdwe issue. -- empty CD not correctly recognized by hal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/66254 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2007-04-16 Thread Thorsten Schoel
I believe 69033 and 72654 are duplicates of this one. Don't know if I'm entitled to simply mark them as such though... -- empty CD not correctly recognized by hal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/66254 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug con

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2007-04-07 Thread sharpkiddie
I also have exactly the same problem with a 'SAMSUNG_CDRW/DVD_SM_308B'. My IDE controller is a '82801BA IDE U100' according to device manager, if this is of relevance. I tried a second drive earlier and this also failed in what seemed to be an identical manner, however I no longer have access to t

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2007-04-07 Thread sharpkiddie
I also have exactly the same problem with a 'SAMSUNG_CDRW/DVD_SM_308B'. My IDE controller is a '82801BA IDE U100' according to device manager, if this is of relevance. I tried a second drive earlier and this also failed in what seemed to be an identical manner, however I no longer have access to t

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2007-04-04 Thread Thibaut Cao
I still have this problem with the new feisty beta. Is someone working to find out the problem or is there a hope for a solution? -- empty CD not correctly recognized by hal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/66254 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which i

[Bug 66254] Re: empty CD not correctly recognized by hal

2007-01-03 Thread Thibaut Cao
I have the same problem here using a LG_CD_RW_CED_8120B WARNING **: No property volume.disc.capacity on device with id /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_empty_unknown when using nautilus-cd-burner or Brasero. It simply asks to add a support and refuses any CDR. This is very annoying as I'm no