On Jan 9, 2008 5:16 PM, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Naiani Rosa de Barros wrote: > > On Jan 9, 2008 7:08 PM, Naiani Rosa de Barros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On Jan 9, 2008 5:03 PM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jan 9, 2008 10:49 AM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:41:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > Things here are still basically a disaster. I rebooted. No change. > sound-juicer still only rips the 1st six tracks and then skips the > last seven. Pretty much the same on every CD I've tried so far. No > messages in dmesg. > > Have you tried a different ripper? This could be a problem with > sound-juicer, not hal/dbus. > > > I emerged grip but it's not seeing the CD at all. I tried Aqualung but > it didn't work either. > > Seeing Dale's note I tried K3b, which I should have thought of before. > It worked for the CD that was already in the drive so that was a step > forward. When I inserted a new CD it got blocked by Gnome starting > Totem automatically. When I closed Totem my hand then K3b was able to > rip the second CD. I haven't listened to anything yet but at least the > files look about right. > > So, with all of that I am guessing that Totem was somehow blocking > sound-juicer. Totem starting automatically when I insert a CD has > never happened before. Is that because I turned on hald? If so do I > really need hald or can I turn it off? Or maybe I need ivman to help > hald do it's work better? > > Probably. HAL + ivman does that. Configure automounting/recognizing > devices. > > Now that I'm thinking, actually, I don't think HAL by itself would do > that. Maybe you already have all the stuff set up. But check out the > Gentoo Wiki page I said before. > > > > > > Of course if there is some Gentoo page on how to run all this stuff > correctly that it where I should really start. > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ivman > > > > thanks, > > Mark > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > > > No problem. =) > > Naiani > > > > Well, I picked up on something. Hal or ivman, both installed here, locks > access to my camera when I first turn it on. Gtkam can not access the > camera until it releases a lock on it. You know when in KDE and you hook up > something, it pops up the little thing asking what to do with it. I hit > cancel on that and wait a minute or two and then gtkam can access the camera > as it should. > > So, it may be that SOMETHING, who knows what, is locking the drive and not > releasing it like it should. Keep in mind that I have KDE and not gnome > here. You may want to check how Gnome handles this sort of thing. It may > be some setting somewhere that is messing you up and be gnome specific. > > If you want to stop services, /etc/init.d/hald stop should work. If you > want to see what all is running then rc-status should help with that. I > have dbus, hald and ivman running on mine here. > > I hope that helps some cause I'm running out of ideas here. > > Dale > Hi Dale, I disabled hald in rc-update and rebooted. Now Totem and Gnome are not auto-mounting anything. K3b can see the CD. cddb and ripping seem to work fine with hald disabled.
I think the overall set of problems were: 1) sound-juicer has developed some sort of regression 2) hald & Gnome were conspiring to make my system too automatic for my tastes At this point I'm in good shape and wondering what the future is going to bring me. Am I putting off the inevitable by not letting hald have it's evil ways with my computer? Will it be required in the future? I thought a lot of that sort of automatic device stuff was supposed to be done by udev so why I need more is beyond me. Anyway, the computer is functional and I can rip with at least one app so I'm back in business. Thanks, Mark -- [email protected] mailing list
