Several problems here really: 1. if the device in the gconf key is wrong or unset, sound-juicer exits at startup; but then you can't get to prefs to set up the device. 2. by default we have the device wrong, so it looks like #1 always happens 3. we don't seem to have permissions for users to access /dev/cdrom by default; we should have that working somehow Anyway, the basic thing I think we need to work for release is: - fresh default install - plug in USB CD-ROM drive - be able to open sound juicer and juice the songs with no command line... Not sure how much of it not working on my system is due to rolling upgrade rather than fresh install.
of course the same applies to gnome-cd, etc., not only sound-juicer
1) Pretty sure this is fixed by 0.5.12, just uploaded to rawhide 2) I think this one might be fixed too 3) Mrmph. udev. I need to install a fresh rawhide system and investigate that.
johnp and I talked about this a bit but we weren't sure - what's the story with permissions for dynamically plugged in CD devices? Currently pam_console chowns the device when you log in, but that isn't enough for devices plugged in after login. Nalin, do you know?
David says the permissions fix was a udev bug, didn't make fc3t2, but should work in the latest rawhide.
I've never used sound-juicer before on my system and 0.5.12 doesn't work for me; I'm seeing issues 1. and 2. Specifically I'm getting this [david@laptop ~]$ sound-juicer ** (sound-juicer:5029): WARNING **: Can't read /proc/scsi/sg/device_strs ** (sound-juicer:5029): WARNING **: Can't read /proc/scsi/sg/device_strs However, udev-027 does fixes issue 3 and I can confirm udev-026 (shipped with test2) didn't.
After 'modprobe sg' as root, I get this [david@laptop ~]$ sound-juicer This CD could not be queried: Cannot open '/dev/hdd' That's probably because my audio disc is in /dev/sdc0 which is my external USB2.0 optical drive.
Hmm, when selecting the right drive in the preferences dialog of sj, I'm getting this [david@laptop ~]$ gconftool-2 --get /apps/sound-juicer/device /dev/scd0 [david@laptop ~]$ sound-juicer This CD could not be queried: Cannot open '/dev/hdd' Inserting the drive into /dev/hdd and still having /dev/scd0 as the preference makes ripping work.
latest udev should fix the dynamic cdrom permission issue and also sr0 -> scd0 renaming
I have: [root@nexus walters]# rpm -q udev udev-032-1 But my USB cdrom still shows up as /dev/sr0. And I get a kernel oops unplugging it. Whee, off to file that bug.
As for 2), it looks like sound-juicer stole some code to detect CD devices which supports either HAL or linux-specific bits, and it just uses the linux bits. I'm trying to enable HAL now to see if that helps.
harald: nevermind, it is /dev/scd0, i was confused by dmesg saying it was sr0.
Ok, this is a deep, deep mess. I'm working with the latest sound-juicer CVS which fixes some bugs, and I've got it using HAL to pick up cdroms instead of the linux-specific grubbing, but this is all for naught because apparently the latest cdparanoia doesn't understand /dev/scd0. This is bug #133312.
On my current system: kernel-2.6.8-1.541 hal-0.2.98-4 udev-032-1 sound-juicer-0.5.12-1 cdparanoia-alpha9.8-21 I've just been rebooting a lot and to make things work I have to do the following: - do not plug in the USB CD at boot time, or the kernel oopses; seems safe to plug it in after boot - MAKEDEV sg0 - chmod hp.disk sg0 If I do those things then sound-juicer works fine. udev only creates scd0 which as discussed above doesn't work. This probably isn't helpful, but I thought I'd add the data point.
With Peter's modified cdparanoia, and the sound-juicer from CVS, things work for me reasonably well. I'm hoping Ross will do a new s-j release soon, if not I'll just do a cvs snapshot. Havoc, does your kernel oops look at all like this? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=133249
Ok, I just built a new sound-juicer snapshot into rawhide, sound-juicer-0.5.12.cvs20040927-1. Havoc, could you try installing Peter's cdparanoia-alpha9.8-21 RPM from the URL below and see if things work for you? http://people.redhat.com/pjones/cdparanoia/
This works for me, please reopen if you still have a problem.