Unable to Play CD

[Just17]

What would you like me to say?   

Updates are great?   

[AS]

Back in Linux this morning and put the music disk in.  Up comes the notifier and I play the songs with the VCL player. 

I put the picture disk in and look at the pictures. 

I put the DVD in and look at the DVD. 

What can I say?  What ever there is to be said, I am pretty sure just19 will say it for me.   
(AS is too polite!)   

... mmmh... not really ... 

Not marking solved yet because not really sure what was done to solve it.   
I will wait until I can do it 3 times in a row.

In fact it's not solved... unless the media was put in the wrong side 3 times in a row

The next time that you will be unable to access a CD/DVD try to reboot your computer (from Linux to Linux) and then try again.
Right now the only thing I can say... it's an intermittent issue... origin unknown. 

AS

[ms_meme]

Back in Linux this morning and put the music disk in.  Up comes the notifier and I play the songs with the VCL player. 

I put the picture disk in and look at the pictures. 

I put the DVD in and look at the DVD. 

What can I say?  What ever there is to be said, I am pretty sure just19 will say it for me.   
(AS is too polite!)   

... mmmh... not really ... 

Not marking solved yet because not really sure what was done to solve it.   
I will wait until I can do it 3 times in a row.

In fact it's not solved... unless the media was put in the wrong side 3 times in a row

The next time that you will be unable to access a CD/DVD try to reboot your computer (from Linux to Linux) and then try again.
Right now the only thing I can say... it's an intermittent issue... origin unknown. 

AS

Yes, it must be an intermittent issue.
Joble made a suggestion elsewhere to mount the CD.  I have not done that yet.  I thought I would try the procedure one more time first.

This AM when I first booted into Linux I immediately tried the 3 different disks and they all worked as I posted.

Then I tried the very same 3 disks after being on the computer for several hours.  None of them played and I got the same results posted earlier.  Nothing comes up.  No notification boxes etc.

Next I rebooted back into Linux and immediately tried the 3 disks and they all play fine...except the music CD halts or stops for a second. This does not happen in Windows.

I did get thrown off by putting the media on wrong side in Windows. 
It seems things only play after the initial boot. I did notice this happening months ago.

(This shouldn't happen.    Talking to myself.)

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[Joble]

Have you updated your kernel?  I've some strange intermittent type problems solved by updating the kernel, just guessing though, wouldn't hurt to try a newer one.

[ms_meme]

Have you updated your kernel?  I've some strange intermittent type problems solved by updating the kernel, just guessing though, wouldn't hurt to try a newer one.

I had a new one some time ago and everything really hung.  So I/we changed back to an older one.

Here is the whole story. It's only about 4 pages long. 
But I am always ready to try something else.

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,92990.0.html

[Just17]

+1 to updating the kernel ......  try   kernel-2.6.38.8-pclos3.bfs

If it does not work for you it is easy to revert to the present one.

BTW what is your present kernel? Did I miss that?

uname -r

in a terminal will give the numbers.

[ms_meme]

+1 to updating the kernel ......  try   kernel-2.6.38.8-pclos3.bfs

If it does not work for you it is easy to revert to the present one.

BTW what is your present kernel? Did I miss that?

uname -r

in a terminal will give the numbers.

[meme@localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.33.7-pclos6.bfs
[meme@localhost ~]$

I also have another one in my list.  It is the one mentioned in that other topic. 

[Just17]

+1 to updating the kernel ......  try   kernel-2.6.38.8-pclos3.bfs

If it does not work for you it is easy to revert to the present one.

BTW what is your present kernel? Did I miss that?

uname -r

in a terminal will give the numbers.

[meme@localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.33.7-pclos6.bfs
[meme@localhost ~]$

I also have another one in my list.  It is the one mentioned in that other topic. 

You should try running with that other kernel first ....  maybe the updates have helped improve things.
At the very least you could test using CDs/DVDs while running it.

If problems are still present then ...

While running PCLOS as you are now (using  2.6.33.7-pclos6.bfs ) you can uninstall the other kernel through Synaptic, and then install the latest one I mentioned above.

Then test that one ....

[ms_meme]

+1 to updating the kernel ......  try   kernel-2.6.38.8-pclos3.bfs

If it does not work for you it is easy to revert to the present one.

BTW what is your present kernel? Did I miss that?

uname -r

in a terminal will give the numbers.

[meme@localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.33.7-pclos6.bfs
[meme@localhost ~]$

I also have another one in my list.  It is the one mentioned in that other topic. 

You should try running with that other kernel first ....  maybe the updates have helped improve things.
At the very least you could test using CDs/DVDs while running it.

If problems are still present then ...

While running PCLOS as you are now (using  2.6.33.7-pclos6.bfs ) you can uninstall the other kernel through Synaptic, and then install the latest one I mentioned above.

Then test that one ....

[meme@localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.38.8-pclos1.bfs
[meme@localhost ~]$ ^C
[meme@localhost ~]$

This is what I booted now to test.  It is still running very sluggish.  I could open up the picture disk and the music disk.  But took forever to see the pictures and mouse was erratic.  Takes a long time to do anything in the file manager.

Also this was this was done right after the initial new boot. It worked at first just like the other.

[Just17]

If you can't use it then I guess boot back into the older kernel .....  uninstall that one .....  and install the newer one ......  then boot into the fresh kernel .... 

[ms_meme]

If you can't use it then I guess boot back into the older kernel .....  uninstall that one .....  and install the newer one ......  then boot into the fresh kernel .... 

Yes, I can hardly move with this one.  I am in Synaptic now and see the one you mentioned.
But I guess I have to boot back to the other one before I uninstall  2.6.38.8-pclos1.bfs.

Then install kernel-2.6.38.8-pclos3.bfs.

Since kernel-2.6.38.8-pclos3.bfs would be the latest one installed, it would be the default?

Can I do the uninstall and then the new install while I am in the same Synaptic?  or do I have to get out and go back in again?
Just want to be sure of the little things.

[Just17]

You cannot uninstall a kernel that is in use ......  so to be sure .....  use the command I gave to see which kernel you are using before attempting to uninstall any kernel

[ms_meme]

I uninstalled the 2.6.38.8-pclos1.bfs and installed the 2.6.38.8-pclos3.bfs.

The new kernel gave me the near same result as the 2.6.38.8-pclos1.bfs. Mouse was hard to control and things just stuck.  I tried bringing up one of the disks. The notification did appear after the initial boot, but clicking on anything was stuck.

I booted back into the using  2.6.33.7-pclos6.bfs  but it is no longer the default and is not at the top of my boot list.

[Just17]

I uninstalled the 2.6.38.8-pclos1.bfs and installed the 2.6.38.8-pclos3.bfs.

The new kernel gave me the near same result as the 2.6.38.8-pclos1.bfs. Mouse was hard to control and things just stuck.  I tried bringing up one of the disks. The notification did appear after the initial boot, but clicking on anything was stuck.

I booted back into the using  2.6.33.7-pclos6.bfs  but it is no longer the default and is not at the top of my boot list.

It is normal for the last installed kernel to be the default.

You can either edit the menu.lst file to make the 33.7 kernel entry the default, or uninstall the 33.8 kernel when booted using the 33.7, thus leaving you with one kernel only.

Could I suggest you boot the new ISO on your USB drive to see how things work from there?

[ms_meme]

I uninstalled the 2.6.38.8-pclos1.bfs and installed the 2.6.38.8-pclos3.bfs.

The new kernel gave me the near same result as the 2.6.38.8-pclos1.bfs. Mouse was hard to control and things just stuck.  I tried bringing up one of the disks. The notification did appear after the initial boot, but clicking on anything was stuck.

I booted back into the using  2.6.33.7-pclos6.bfs  but it is no longer the default and is not at the top of my boot list.

It is normal for the last installed kernel to be the default.

You can either edit the menu.lst file to make the 33.7 kernel entry the default, or uninstall the 33.8 kernel when booted using the 33.7, thus leaving you with one kernel only.

Could I suggest you boot the new ISO on your USB drive to see how things work from there?

I think I will try moving the menu.lst file.  Although I have 15 seconds set so that gives plenty of time to choose the other.

I tried the disks this morning right after boot and of course they worked.  Retried after an hour or so of use and they did not.....as was usual.

I will try the USB. (when I remember how to work it..   )