K3B can't find drive

OK, I have a strange problem with openSUSE 11.3 K3B and Nero will both find my CD drives after a reboot, but after the system has been running a while neither one can detect the drives. FWIW, I don’t have this problem in 11.4 M5. Any ideas?

What about elsewhere, or is it just k3b that can’t see them?

Good question. I’ll check it out. Nero has the same problem, I know that. Don’t know about other programs.

What I mean really is, can you navigate a CD in Dolphin.

And when you say it can’t find the drive. Do you mean it can’t see the media disc or that the hardware is not detected and you get an error in k3b

For example. What do you see here:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10573557/SUSE%20Misc/k3b-device-set.png

OK, what happens is one of two things; either the drives disappear from K3B, Nero and Dolphin, or K3B starts to launch and never finishes. In both cases, the optical drives disappear. They are IDE drives, jumpered master/slave. Stock 11.3 64-bit system, all updated. And as I said, these problems don’t exist in 11.4 M5. Thanks for the help!

Sometimes if they share a IDE cable, that can cause problems.

When you try launching k3b from the terminal, what do you get? (I mean when it’s crashing out)

I get this:

k3b
<unknown program name>(11146)/: Communication problem with “k3b” , it probably crashed.
Error message was: “org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply” : " “Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blok3b
<unknown program name>(11146)/: Communication problem with “k3b” , it probably crashed.
Error message was: “org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply” : " “Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.” "
cked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.” "

Does


dbus-launch k3b

Make k3b find the drive?

Still no love. Here’s the output:

dbus-launch k3b
kdeinit4: Shutting down running client.
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib64/libkdeinit4_klauncher.so
Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib64/libkdeinit4_kded4.so
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib64/libkdeinit4_kbuildsycoca4.so
kbuildsycoca4 running…
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib64/libkdeinit4_kconf_update.so
Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
Invalid D-BUS member name ‘idle-hint’ found in interface ‘org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session’ while parsing introspection
Invalid D-BUS member name ‘is-local’ found in interface ‘org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session’ while parsing introspection
Invalid D-BUS member name ‘x11-display-device’ found in interface ‘org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session’ while parsing introspection
Invalid D-BUS member name ‘x11-display’ found in interface ‘org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session’ while parsing introspection
Invalid D-BUS member name ‘display-device’ found in interface ‘org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session’ while parsing introspection
Invalid D-BUS member name ‘remote-host-name’ found in interface ‘org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session’ while parsing introspection
Invalid D-BUS member name ‘session-type’ found in interface ‘org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session’ while parsing introspection
Invalid D-BUS member name ‘unix-user’ found in interface ‘org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session’ while parsing introspection
kded(7719) synaptiks::Touchpad::findTouchpad: device properties unsupported
QObject::connect: Cannot connect (null)::accessibilityChanged(bool, const QString) to DeviceAutomounter::deviceMountChanged(bool, const QString)
<unknown program name>(7708)/: Communication problem with “k3b” , it probably crashed.
Error message was: “org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply” : " “Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.” "

dlouhy@linux-isfy:~> kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib64/libkdeinit4_kbuildsycoca4.so
<unknown program name>(7716)/ KStartupInfo::createNewStartupId: creating: “linux-isfy;1294349810;624971;7716_TIME0” : “unnamed app”
kbuildsycoca4 running…

OK, after this I tried running Nero. It won’t launch either, but the instance of K3B I started earlier then showed up.