I got hold of an old computer, and managed to put Lucid on it. At the time, it had an old CD-RW drive in it. Now it's got a brand new DVD +/- RW drive, and Lucid can show me that it exists, but it can't mount any discs. In XFCE, it shows the error 'Method "Mount" with signature "ssas" on interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" doesn't exist'.
The problem is pretty much as described on this page: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1509538.
I would have installed Windows, but I didn't have any working Windows XP discs (or a valid key), and even installing Lucid was rather hit and miss. I can't reinstall Lucid to see if that fixes the problem as I'm not at home, and I didn't bring my Lucid disc (or if I did, it's corrupt).
If anyone has idea of how to fix this problem (the computer's for my parents, aren't they're not exactly computer savvy, even with Windows XP), I would very much appreciate a solution. If worst comes to worst, would a complete reinstall work (even if I have to download the ISO again, although I'm not sure I have access to a spare CD). I have until Saturday, which is when I have to go home.
Sandy (rather desperate)
What I'd probably do is delete /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules plus and any cd-related directories and links in /media/ and let them all get get recreated on the next boot.
On 11 July 2010 19:22, Chakat Sandwalker sandwalker@gmail.com wrote:
I got hold of an old computer, and managed to put Lucid on it. At the time, it had an old CD-RW drive in it. Now it's got a brand new DVD +/- RW drive, and Lucid can show me that it exists, but it can't mount any discs. In XFCE, it shows the error 'Method "Mount" with signature "ssas" on interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" doesn't exist'.
The problem is pretty much as described on this page: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1509538.
I would have installed Windows, but I didn't have any working Windows XP discs (or a valid key), and even installing Lucid was rather hit and miss. I can't reinstall Lucid to see if that fixes the problem as I'm not at home, and I didn't bring my Lucid disc (or if I did, it's corrupt).
If anyone has idea of how to fix this problem (the computer's for my parents, aren't they're not exactly computer savvy, even with Windows XP), I would very much appreciate a solution. If worst comes to worst, would a complete reinstall work (even if I have to download the ISO again, although I'm not sure I have access to a spare CD). I have until Saturday, which is when I have to go home.
Sandy (rather desperate)
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Well, I did as you said, and it recreated the rules to include DVDs. However, if I put a CD in, then it throws the 'wrong fs type' error and won't mount it, and if I put in a DVD (video or data) it spins for a bit then stops, and the CD/DVD icon in 'Computer' disappears until I eject the disc, whereupon it reappears. Either way, any disc I insert is not mounted. There are no entries in /media either, and mounting manually gives the same 'wrong fs type' error too.
Suggestions? I'm starting to think installing Lucid was a bad idea.
Sandy
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Bruce Kingsbury zcat@zcat.geek.nz wrote:
What I'd probably do is delete /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules plus and any cd-related directories and links in /media/ and let them all get get recreated on the next boot.
On 13 July 2010 08:45, Chakat Sandwalker sandwalker@gmail.com wrote:
Suggestions? I'm starting to think installing Lucid was a bad idea.
I'd be tempted to try some other distros and see if they had the same problem. I took that approach with my laptop to find a distro that coped with the wireless network adapter. Ubuntu Lucid works well, but some earlier versions of Ubuntu didn't.
I'm assuming you've got any data that needs keeping has been transferred to off-line storage. Installing and testing a distro should only take about an hour at most.
If the computer supports boot from a USB device, booting from an external CD drive would allow you to test much more quickly and without having to do an install.
Michael
I'm near Kaiwaka at the moment, until Saturday morning, visiting my parents. Downloading another ISO is not really an option -- no spare CDs to burn to, and it'd chew through my parents' data cap quickly. This is a fresh installation of Lucid -- that and Gutsy were the only Ubuntu distros that I could get to install -- all the other discs I had were corrupted in some way, and my Karmic CD was for x64.
Also, as I'm in this location, getting a CD from anyone else is also pretty much not an option. I do have an image for the latest version of Puppy Linux I could try, although it's a bit basic, and I'm unfamiliar with some of how it works, such as package management.
I might have to give up the idea of two computers and try taking the RAM from this 'new' one and putting it into their current machine, which has only 224MB available RAM, and running an install of XP Home.
Sandy
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Michael McDonald mikencolleen@gmail.comwrote:
On 13 July 2010 08:45, Chakat Sandwalker sandwalker@gmail.com wrote:
Suggestions? I'm starting to think installing Lucid was a bad idea.
I'd be tempted to try some other distros and see if they had the same problem. I took that approach with my laptop to find a distro that coped with the wireless network adapter. Ubuntu Lucid works well, but some earlier versions of Ubuntu didn't.
I'm assuming you've got any data that needs keeping has been transferred to off-line storage. Installing and testing a distro should only take about an hour at most.
If the computer supports boot from a USB device, booting from an external CD drive would allow you to test much more quickly and without having to do an install.
Hi Sandy,
From the same source. <quote> I switched in BIOS SATA-Mode to IDE and
the drive works like a charm. <end quote> Did you try?
On Sun, 2010-07-11 at 19:22 +1200, Chakat Sandwalker wrote:
I got hold of an old computer, and managed to put Lucid on it. At the time, it had an old CD-RW drive in it. Now it's got a brand new DVD +/- RW drive, and Lucid can show me that it exists, but it can't mount any discs. In XFCE, it shows the error 'Method "Mount" with signature "ssas" on interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" doesn't exist'.
The problem is pretty much as described on this page: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1509538.
I have no idea what it's referring to, nor is it applicable -- this system has a BIOS predating SATA by about three years.
Sandy
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 7:35 PM, John jaytee@clear.net.nz wrote:
Hi Sandy,
From the same source. <quote> I switched in BIOS SATA-Mode to IDE and
the drive works like a charm. <end quote> Did you try?
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