[Pkg-opt-media-team] Bug#558609: Bug#558609: cdparanoia no longer works, should retire

[Rogério Brito]

Hi, Tong.


On Nov 29 2009, Tong Sun wrote:
> Thanks for the swift reply, Rogério & Francesco.

You're welcome.

> Definitely that the problem is only limited to my system now.

Well, perhaps not and this is why we would like to get things narrowed
down.

> > * Is the drive an IDE/PATA drive or a SATA drive?
> 
> Yes, the CDROM is an IDE/PATA drive.

OK. One question down.

> > * What is the driver that your kernel uses for the drive?

dmesg | grep -ie 'ide\|ata'

would help here.

> > * If you use an IDE/PATA drive, have you tried using Linux's IDE layer?
> >  And the SATA "fake" layer (via libata)?

The output from lsmod would help here.

> > * Have you tested audio extraction with other (older, newer) kernels?
> 
>  For these questions, I don't know how to get the answers. Just that,
> 
> - This is the only kernel that I use for audio extraction. This is the only
> time that I try it as well. So I can't provide info for other kernels.

Couldn't you try a newer kernel, please?

> - The kernel that I'm using, although fails cdparanoia, works fine with VCD
> ripping, CD burning, and even audio extraction with icedax.

This is quite interesting. Perhaps an strace of cdparanoia running an
extraction would be nice to have.

Some of these things that I'm asking would be log and would be best if
attached, instead of put inline.

> Oh, might it be just a permission problem? I'm in audio/video/cdrom group,
> and I remember that I need to be in another special group.

I don't think so, as long as you're in the cdrom group and udev is
working correctly.

> $ cdparanoia -A
> cdparanoia III release 10.2 (September 11, 2008)
(...)

cdparanoia -A generates a file called cdparanoia.log, doesn't it? If it
doesn, please attach it too.

Oh, just one thing: do you happen to have hal running? Getting hal
stopped would help for the purposes of the test. I had problems with hal
interfering with wodim before (from the same package as icedax).

> $ cdrecord -scanbus | grep -i1 sony
> Linux sg driver version: 3.5.34
> scsibus2:
>         2,0,0   200) 'SONY    ' 'CD-RW  CRX195E1 ' 'ZYS5' Removable CD-ROM
>         2,1,0   201) 'PIONEER ' 'DVD-RW  DVR-110D' '1.17' Removable CD-ROM

What happens if you try with the other drive?

> Error trying to open /dev/sg0 exclusively (Permission denied)... retrying in
> 1 second.

This may indicate some problems with hal. What are the permissions on
/dev/sg0? Where do /dev/cdrom* link to?

> Using libscg version 'ubuntu-0.8ubuntu1'
> 
> 2,0,0 : SONY    , CD-RW  CRX195E1 , ZYS5
> 2,1,0 : PIONEER , DVD-RW  DVR-110D, 1.17
> 
> export CDR_DEVICE=/dev/scd0

What happens if you try to use something like "cdparanoia -d /dev/scd0 ..."? 

> How can I provide other info?

Well, I hope that at least one of the questions I asked leads to an
answer.


Regards,

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