Re: Broken video DVDs (no executable bits on *_TS folders)
Hi, On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 08:45:36PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: Axel Thimm wrote: some home made DVDs by some software is creating *_TS folders with 0400 permissions. This means that only root can really change into these folders. Is there a way to tell Fedora to always paste executional bits onto video DVDs? I'm trying to convert some people to use Fedora for their home systems and when they find out that Fedora will ignore their home made DVDs they don't really care that their Wincrap software generated a bad DVD (after all it runs on the DVD player). So while Fedora is actually doing The Right Thing, it is hindering its own acceptance. :( I can't imagine any change which would make that work and still be remotely functional behavior. Turning off permissions checking on directories isn't going to happen. Turns out that this just happened in 2.6.30 :) There are mode and dmode parameters that devicekit sets to full permissions. The DVDs are broken, tell your friends their software is crap. And that the media will not play in certain Blu-Ray players which check properly. That might make a better connection. There are just too many broken DVDs out there to be The Right One. And while digging into it I found out that not only home-made, but many commercial DVDs are broken as well. I wish the 2.6.30 mode/dmode patch makes it into F11. On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 07:11:23PM -0700, Suvayu Ali wrote: How are you mounting your DVDs? Is it auto-mounted by HAL? Yes. I sometimes use Windowmaker as my desktop and it doesn't automount any external storage device. Then I have to mount it by hand. I use the following to do that successfully. $ sudo mount -o uid=regular-user -o gid=group-of-user [other options] The problem is that there was no option for altering the permissions. In the near furture you will be able to do -o mode=xxx,dmode=yyy as well. I think similar other options for -o allow you to mount with the executable bit set. The DVDs might work if you mounted it like this. True, but you need the kernel to understand dmode and mode. Looks like it's going to be = 2.6.30 unless it is backported to the Fedora kernels. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net pgpmQictowLt1.pgp Description: PGP signature -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Broken video DVDs (no executable bits on *_TS folders)
Hi, some home made DVDs by some software is creating *_TS folders with 0400 permissions. This means that only root can really change into these folders. Is there a way to tell Fedora to always paste executional bits onto video DVDs? I'm trying to convert some people to use Fedora for their home systems and when they find out that Fedora will ignore their home made DVDs they don't really care that their Wincrap software generated a bad DVD (after all it runs on the DVD player). So while Fedora is actually doing The Right Thing, it is hindering its own acceptance. :( -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net pgpTITcPKcYVM.pgp Description: PGP signature -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Broken video DVDs (no executable bits on *_TS folders)
Axel Thimm wrote: Hi, some home made DVDs by some software is creating *_TS folders with 0400 permissions. This means that only root can really change into these folders. Is there a way to tell Fedora to always paste executional bits onto video DVDs? I'm trying to convert some people to use Fedora for their home systems and when they find out that Fedora will ignore their home made DVDs they don't really care that their Wincrap software generated a bad DVD (after all it runs on the DVD player). So while Fedora is actually doing The Right Thing, it is hindering its own acceptance. :( I can't imagine any change which would make that work and still be remotely functional behavior. Turning off permissions checking on directories isn't going to happen. You *might* be able to write a user-mode filesystem which ran as root and made the media available with other permissions, or the xorisso package might let you keep the metadata in memory with changed permissions. Finally, you could make a copy of just the directory structure on a ramdisk, update the directory permissions, then write a symlink to each file in the ramdiskf/s and access stuff that way. I think that would work, but it's *UGLY*! The DVDs are broken, tell your friends their software is crap. And that the media will not play in certain Blu-Ray players which check properly. That might make a better connection. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Broken video DVDs (no executable bits on *_TS folders)
Axel Thimm wrote: Hi, some home made DVDs by some software is creating *_TS folders with 0400 permissions. This means that only root can really change into these folders. Is there a way to tell Fedora to always paste executional bits onto video DVDs? I'm trying to convert some people to use Fedora for their home systems and when they find out that Fedora will ignore their home made DVDs they don't really care that their Wincrap software generated a bad DVD (after all it runs on the DVD player). So while Fedora is actually doing The Right Thing, it is hindering its own acceptance. :( How are you mounting your DVDs? Is it auto-mounted by HAL? I sometimes use Windowmaker as my desktop and it doesn't automount any external storage device. Then I have to mount it by hand. I use the following to do that successfully. $ sudo mount -o uid=regular-user -o gid=group-of-user [other options] I think similar other options for -o allow you to mount with the executable bit set. The DVDs might work if you mounted it like this. Just a wild thought. :-/ -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
