gnomebaker problems
P Jones
deerfieldtech at gmail.com
Mon Aug 20 00:24:05 UTC 2007
On 6/29/07, Rick Marshall <rjm at zenucom.com> wrote:
> After upgrading from FC6 to F7 gnomebaker stopped working.
>
> After poking around again I found that the reason is that gnomebaker is
> trying to open /dev/sr0 as the scsi recording device, but in my F7 that
> doesn't exist.
>
> However these do exist:
>
> [root at rjm src]# ls -l /dev/*sr0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2007-06-30 10:44 /dev/cdrom-sr0 -> scd0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2007-06-30 10:44 /dev/cdrw-sr0 -> scd0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2007-06-30 10:44 /dev/cdwriter-sr0 -> scd0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2007-06-30 10:44 /dev/dvdrw-sr0 -> scd0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2007-06-30 10:44 /dev/dvd-sr0 -> scd0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2007-06-30 10:44 /dev/dvdwriter-sr0 -> scd0
>
> So I added the line:
>
> ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/sr0
>
> to /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S99local and gnomebaker works.
>
> Why does it get it wrong? Well...
>
> [root at rjm src]# cat /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info
> CD-ROM information, Id: cdrom.c 3.20 2003/12/17
>
> drive name: sr0
> drive speed: 24
> drive # of slots: 1
> Can close tray: 1
> Can open tray: 1
> Can lock tray: 1
> Can change speed: 1
> Can select disk: 0
> Can read multisession: 1
> Can read MCN: 1
> Reports media changed: 1
> Can play audio: 1
> Can write CD-R: 1
> Can write CD-RW: 1
> Can read DVD: 1
> Can write DVD-R: 1
> Can write DVD-RAM: 1
> Can read MRW: 1
> Can write MRW: 1
> Can write RAM: 1
>
> so I guess gnomebaker assumes there is a node called /dev/sr0, but
> obviously F7 is trying to be friendly by creating specific nodes based
> on the capabilities of the device and then I assume an application can
> open the appropriate device.
>
> Should gnomebaker be changed? or would it be friendly for F7 to also
> create the generic node /dev/sr0 at startup as well as the capability
> specific nodes?
>
> Thanks
> Rick
Has a bug been filed for this yet? I can't find it. And I have the
same problem, it affects gnomebaker as well as wodim on both of my F7
machines.
-P
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