gnomebaker problems

[P Jones]

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