Getting desperate here as I cannot rely on opensuse 11.1 for ripping to music database. I have updated and have all patches so I assume previously reported bug is not the problem but symptoms are very similar.
If I load an audio cd I get error message “Unable to mount…
DBus error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus).”
It appears the disk mounts and them immediately unmounts and I get the error message. It repeats this every couple of seconds so fills the desktop with multiple layers of error messages.
If I run Grip, the CD tracks show up at first and then are blanked and so on.
Strange but once in a while the mount holds, so yesterday I was able to rip one CD but tonight no such luck. The machine runs 24/7 so there has not been any re-boot between sessions.
Trouble is that in OpenSuse 11.1 many things have changed from my previous system (Suse 10.0), for example cdrom no longer in fstab. I have no idea what controls the mounting process now and nothing works as it used to.
Looks like I shall have to go back to Opensuse 10.3 as I cannot waste much more time on this and nobody on forum has been able to suggest a fix which works. I have posted a new bug notice but do not know what happens next.
Can somebody please give me some hints or assistance.
Budgie2,
audio CDs cannot be mounted, since they normally don’t contain a data track.
If you see the same behavior with any CD, my guess is your CD drive is faulty. If it is only this particular CD, it may contain some non-standard compliant data track.
Thanks for that. I am only quoting the error message which says
“Unable to mount AUDIO” and “Unable to mount Audio Disk”
I appreciate that no file system is involved and therefore “mount” may be an incorrect term but the point is it doesn’t work as it should.
The problem occurs with both CD devices and with several audio CDs. I am confident that the drives are OK but the error messages include:-
Error org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.UnknownError
DBus error 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.
DBus error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)
If you can shine any light on what is going on I would be most grateful. The security policy issue may be a clue but how do I change this. All my permissions are OK as far as I can tell.
If you could help me log in as root I might get further clues but this seems to be discouraged in 11.1 + Gnome.
Further to the above I have found that if I put an audio cd in the second drive (cdrom) I just get one error message repeated many times at intervals of about 5 seconds. If I put an audio cd in the first drive I get all three messages, also repeated at intervals. If I look at /media I find that it is filled with directories AUDIO, AUDIO_, AUDIO__ and so on with one added every few seconds, possibly when I click on the OK of the error messages, each with drwx------ root root permissions. So it seems the system “mounts” the audio CD but with root access only so that I cannot access it.
No idea what is responsible for this but there is a Hal problem in there I would guess.