Bug#297760: gnome-media: gnome-cd fails to start playing

[Bruno Gravato]

Package: gnome-media
Version: 2.8.0-0.2
Severity: important



Both gnome-cd and cd player applet in gnome-applets fail to start
playing audio cd.

gnome-cd hangs for 1 or 2 seconds when starting but then it detects the audio cd in the drive and correctly retrieves cddb info.
When I hit play it hangs for bit again and (most of the times) it doesn't start playing (sometimes it plays for less than a second and then stops).
When closing gnome-cd it also hangs for about 2 seconds.
device selected is /dev/cdrom which is a link to /dev/hdd (my dvd-rom)

I can successfully play audio cds with cdcd (console cd player).
Now the most weird is that if I run cdcd and leave it opened in the
console (without typing any command), then gnome-cd (and the cd applet)
start working correctly (I can play, stop, change track, etc).
If I close cdcd the cd stops playing and both gnome-cd and cd applet stop
working like before.
device selected in cdcd is also /dev/cdrom

gnome-cd and the cd applet used to work sometime ago before I did some
upgrades (I can't tell which packages I've upgrading since then sorry :( ).


I don't know if this is related to this problem, but I've recently noticed that
when I insert a data dvd on my dvd-rom syslog gets filled with this
messages:

Mar  2 17:27:46 localhost kernel: hdd: packet command error: status=0x51
{ DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Mar  2 17:27:46 localhost kernel: hdd: packet command error: error=0x54
Mar  2 17:27:46 localhost kernel: ide: failed opcode was 100
}

This messages stop if I kill gnome cd applet.
Maybe I should report this too for gnome-applets package...




-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-k7
Locale: LANG=pt_PT@euro, LC_CTYPE=pt_PT@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15) (ignored: LC_ALL set to pt_PT@euro)

Versions of packages gnome-media depends on:
ii  gstreamer0.8-alsa [gstre 0.8.7-3         ALSA plugin for GStreamer
ii  gstreamer0.8-misc        0.8.7-3         Collection of various GStreamer pl
ii  gstreamer0.8-oss [gstrea 0.8.7-3         OSS plugin for GStreamer
ii  libart-2.0-2             2.3.17-1        Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0              1.8.0-4         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0            0.2.6-5         Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0             2.8.1-2         Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0           2.8.1-1         The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                    2.3.2.ds1-20    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libesd0                  0.2.35-2        Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libgail-common           1.8.2-1         GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgail17                1.8.2-1         GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgconf2-4              2.8.1-4         GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt11              1.2.0-4         LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglade2-0              1:2.4.2-1       library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.6.2-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0        0.4.1-1         GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0              2.8.0-6         The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0        2.8.0-1         A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0             2.8.0-3         The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0           2.8.3-11        The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnutls11              1.0.16-9        GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgpg-error0            1.0-1           library for common error values an
ii  libgstreamer-gconf0.8-0  0.8.7-3         GConf support for GStreamer
ii  libgstreamer-plugins0.8- 0.8.7-3         Various GStreamer libraries and li
ii  libgstreamer0.8-0        0.8.8-1         Core GStreamer libraries, plugins,
ii  libgtk2.0-0              2.6.2-3         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62                6b-9            The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  liborbit2                1:2.10.5-0.1    libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0            1.8.0-3         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                 1.7-5           lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System Session Management
ii  libtasn1-2               0.2.10-3        Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libx11-6                 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxml2                  2.6.16-3        GNOME XML library
ii  xlibs                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.2-3       compression library - runtime

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Best regards,
Bruno Gravato.