CD lockup

[DrJoe]

Dear Friends,
I am just getting to know this blindingly fast computer set up with Linux Mint 12, 64 bit. I am discovering that if I'm trying to work and play a music CD at the same time, things will unpredicatably lock up, leaving me no option but a forced shut down with the power button, which is not healthy for running programs. Can anyone help me understand what is going on and how to fix it? I certainly can work without tunes, but it is a nice option. I can't seem to figure out how to identify the CD/Blueray drive other than ASUS.
Yours hopefully,
Joe

[dwasifar]

I have always found CD drive support to be a little flaky on any flavor of Linux. I've rarely seen them lock up the system, but I've often seen them lock up applications or prevent shutdown.

One thing you might try is permanently mounting your CD drive in /etc/fstab. Figure out what your CD drive's device name is (for example /dev/sr0) create a mount point (let's say /media/cdrom) and put it in your /etc/fstab like so:

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/dev/sr0 /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0

If that doesn't work, you might want to just bite the bullet and rip your discs, then play them in Rhythmbox or Clementine or something like that.

[DrJoe]

Thank you, but for this total newbie we have to back even further. I have tried to determine the name of my CD drive, but can't seem to figure out where it is to be found. Once that is solved, I then need to know how to create a mount point. Thanks in advance for your patience.
Yours hopefully,
Joe

[dwasifar]

Open a terminal and type:

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sudo lshw

Somewhere in the resulting flood of geekery there will be a block of text that looks something like this:

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           *-cdrom
                description: DVD writer
                product: DVD+-RW UJ-857G
                vendor: MATSHITA
                physical id: 0.0.0
                bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
                logical name: /dev/cdrom
                logical name: /dev/cdrw
                logical name: /dev/dvd
                logical name: /dev/dvdrw
                logical name: /dev/scd0
                logical name: /dev/sr0
                version: Z111
                capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r
                configuration: ansiversion=5 status=open


Any of the logical names will work for what we're doing.

Before you ask, creating a mount point just means creating a directory where the drive will be mounted. You can do that by opening /media folder and creating a new folder inside it called cdrom, or you can do it from command line since you have the terminal open anyway:

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mkdir /media/cdrom

[DrJoe]

Sorry for the delay. Your directions are clear, but the machine will not allow me to create the directory in the media file by either method. Terminal returng "Cannot creat directory, permission denied." Password entered properly, terminal responding to other commands. Now what?
Thank you. Yours ever hopefully,
joe

[oobetimer]

Sorry for the delay. Your directions are clear, but the machine will not allow me to create the directory in the media file by either method. Terminal returng "Cannot creat directory, permission denied." Password entered properly, terminal responding to other commands. Now what?
Thank you. Yours ever hopefully,
joe

sudo mkdir /media/cdrom