Just when I tought I had a working Ubuntu 9.04 G50Vt :frown:

Well just when I thought I had a working Ubuntu 9.04 64 bit system finally working I come to a major problem. I have yet to try to use the DVD drive and now that I did I wish I haven't. At the beginning everything is working, I can read the files and so forth. When you try to unmount the DVD or CD thats when the problem begins. If I unmount the drive first, the drive wont stop spinning and the only way to stop it is by turning off the laptop. If I just reboot its still spinning at the bios screen so at that point i turn it off.

If I eject the CD without unmounting it, the drive stop spinning but it wont eject. No matter what I do, I tried different commands commands in the terminal found in the Ubuntu forums and no luck at all. I get the following errors.

Cannot unmount volume an application is preventing the volume from being unmounted.

DBus error org.gtk.Private.RemoteVolumeMonitor.Failed: An operation is already pending

This is on my G50Vt laptop and I have it running in raid 0. This transition from Vista to Ubuntu has been MUCH harder then what I tought it was going to be.

I appreciate any advice.

 

Now is the time to RAGE AGAINST THE HAL DEVELOPERS.

 

Does that mean I just have to wait till an update comes out?

 

You could try sudo /etc/init.d/dbus restart and then try opening the drive again. That's a ridiculous problem -- I've never heard of that!

Edit: If you restart dbus and you're using gnome with network manager you'll probably have to hit alt+f2 and type pkill nm-applet, hit alt+f2 again and type nm-applet. You may also lose your desktop icons, hit alt+f2 and run nautilus

 

I'm at work right now but I'll try it when I go back home. The more and more I think about it maybe I should have gone with the more stable version of 8.10. You know I don't have much hair to loose and since I started this process I think I have lost about 50. LoL.

 

try that or reinstall...I've never heard of that....sounds like an install glitch maybe....stay with 9.04 btw.

 

Zoid by re-installing will it screw up the stuff i have installed allready??
With more testing now that I am home, the drive will read a couple of files but the more i go into folders the drive stops reading and responding. The Ubuntu says there is no media inside. The drive stays spinning.

 

I type mount on the terminal and this is what I get, you all mind taking a look and seeing if everything looks normal..

Code:

/dev/mapper/isw_ecajaahjbj_G50Vt2 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)
tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
lrm on /lib/modules/2.6.28-13-generic/volatile type tmpfs (rw,mode=755)
/dev/mapper/isw_ecajaahjbj_G50Vt3 on /home type ext3 (rw,relatime)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
/home/joeelmex/.Private on /home/joeelmex type ecryptfs (ecryptfs_sig=d3b4ad13b9435ffd,ecryptfs_fnek_sig=fa31ebbcb7c079f6,ecryptfs_cipher=aes,ecryptfs_key_bytes=16)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/joeelmex/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=joeelmex)

 

I don't see anything related to ur CD-ROM? Was it not mounted at the time? Everything else looks normal to me at a quick glance.

Did restarting dbus help anything?

 

No restarting Dbus did nothing. I am certain is something to do with Ubuntu now. I went ahead and re-installed it. Had it format the partiotions and I just booted up. NEw instalation of Ubuntu no updates nothing installed I am getting the same result. So that tells me that my first install I did have it correct.

Hmm dont know what else to try to make Ubuntu work.

 

Well i made a small discovery still not a fix but not i can read a cd for a long time and unmount it. I made a change in fstab file in the etc directory. This is my fstab file info

Code:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
# / was on /dev/mapper/isw_ecajaahjbj_G50Vt2 during installation
UUID=4110c9ff-4da4-437a-a1b7-51cabaf604db /               ext3    relatime,errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /home was on /dev/mapper/isw_ecajaahjbj_G50Vt3 during installation
UUID=f3cef321-0710-45b3-8b28-c6fa9896b5bd /home           ext3    relatime        0       2
# swap was on /dev/mapper/isw_ecajaahjbj_G50Vt1 during installation
UUID=3d60d2e9-e203-4162-ad8b-c3524c4acd58 none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/scd1       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0

The last low /dev/scd1 was scd0. When I change it to 1 it made a big difference but I still have issues when I try to mess with a second cd.

 

Hmm, first i hear about problem like this.
Couple of Q.
Have you tried to run windows on your ntb previously, before inst. of linux? CD/DVD was OK, so that HW problem is out of Q?
Also, looks to me like some process is using the device (like some app trying to access it without permissions and got stuck)?
I'd try
lsof /dev/cdrom or
fuser /dev/cdrom
(try man page for those commands to find attributes to more 'honey' them) and insert that crazy 'sudo' everywhere (not *buntu user) ).
If You find some process using it, kill it.
Other thought - some news in /var/log/messages?
in terminal i'd try to:
tail -f /var/log/messages
and then try to mess with the device (open it, access it ...) and see if something shows there, if it does, try to post it here ....
Other thought - is ubuntu packing SElinux? Could be trouble too? If it is, try to switch it off.
Q for you:
You have 2 hdd's on your ntb? Just wondering why you run stripping (raid 0) on you HDD ...

 

helikaon to answer your questions:

I had Vista before Ubuntu and never had an issue with the drive. Also the installation is all happenning from the drive and everything installs without a glitch.

2nd questions, yes I have 2 320gig 7200rpm HD in my laptop and I strip them in raid 0 in the bios before installation. I am going to try a clean install of Debian, and see if I have the same issue tonight when I get home from work.

Like I previous posted a clean install from Ubuntu has the problem at boot up.

 

NEW FINDING!! Still not resolve but

I was trying to install DEbian and after the raid is setup, after the initial files are set, It then tried to mount the CDRom drive and BAM! It cant mount it it send reset commands to the drive and still no dice. Finally gives an error and resets. My conclusion is I think the raid is somehow screwing up the I/O on the CD-Rom for some reason.

I also notice during partitioning in the alt f4 screen I see some errors pop out DM-raid missing parameters and things of that matter. So my luck in Debian is a no go with Raid.

I have a feeling that if I would just disable the raid everything will work normally, I would not have the issues that I am having now. I have lost so much hair on this project Im going to be homer soon.

Basically, before the raid is mounted everything is fine with CDrom once the raid is mounted, CD-ROm issues, start happening. When I go to a terminal by pressing alt-f2 if I type mount, I see the raid drives and Sata CDrom all mounted. When CDrom works without problems at the begining of install, I type mount, I see no raid drives.

I am thinking what else to try now. I am open to any ideas...

 

Verified the problem, with DMRAID enabled and my bios setup for RAID for some reason Ubuntu and Debian are having a hard time talking to the cd rom once the raid is enables. For testing I set up NON-RAid non DMraid install and everything worked great on the cdrom. I unmounted mounted ejected cd's without a glitch. So the million dollar question what should I do???

Ill stick with Ubuntu with RAID and toss the CD-Rom. Hopefully a fix will come out or worse case scenerio if I really need a DVD player I can use the external one I have for the girls Acerone laptops I got them.

 

Hi,
perhaps didnt get it clear - you said you use raid enabled in bios, so that means you got some kind of HW raid controller? Or you use the SW raid from linux.
The HW raid shouldnt give you such troubles, if so, then its hw problem.

 

Helikaon yes I had a G50vt laptop and it has a build in intel raid controller. I was not using LVM to make a software raid within Linux. Thats the reason I install Ubuntu with dmraid=true before installation so it will enable the raid controller and see the stripe0 partition.

 

these are the messeages I got from the logs.

Code:

Jun 26 21:06:36 R2D2 kernel: [10857.816212] ata2: hard resetting link
Jun 26 21:06:41 R2D2 kernel: [10863.180154] ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
Jun 26 21:06:46 R2D2 kernel: [10867.828168] ata2: hard resetting link
Jun 26 21:06:51 R2D2 kernel: [10873.188153] ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
Jun 26 21:06:56 R2D2 kernel: [10877.844143] ata2: hard resetting link
Jun 26 21:07:01 R2D2 kernel: [10883.208117] ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
Jun 26 21:07:31 R2D2 kernel: [10912.876630] ata2: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
Jun 26 21:07:31 R2D2 kernel: [10912.876636] ata2: hard resetting link
Jun 26 21:07:36 R2D2 kernel: [10917.900170] ata2.00: disabled
Jun 26 21:07:36 R2D2 kernel: [10917.900190] ata2: EH complete

in the logs

 

More logs of the erros i see

var/log/mesasages

Code:

Jun 26 21:06:36 R2D2 kernel: [10857.816212] ata2: hard resetting link
Jun 26 21:06:41 R2D2 kernel: [10863.180154] ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
Jun 26 21:06:46 R2D2 kernel: [10867.828168] ata2: hard resetting link
Jun 26 21:06:51 R2D2 kernel: [10873.188153] ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
Jun 26 21:06:56 R2D2 kernel: [10877.844143] ata2: hard resetting link
Jun 26 21:07:01 R2D2 kernel: [10883.208117] ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
Jun 26 21:07:31 R2D2 kernel: [10912.876630] ata2: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
Jun 26 21:07:31 R2D2 kernel: [10912.876636] ata2: hard resetting link
Jun 26 21:07:36 R2D2 kernel: [10917.900170] ata2.00: disabled
Jun 26 21:07:36 R2D2 kernel: [10917.900190] ata2: EH complete

Gnome will give out errors of it cant be mounted and something else. Please help me figure this out, I cant think of anything else to try.

here is what shows when i type mount after my cdrom stops workings

more info on the failing

Ubuntu 9.04 64 bit

 

See this bug. I've also had this problem on a desktop ASUS SATA DVD drive, I think it is something to do with the firmware and the driver not playing well together. Not sure this helps but at least you know you're not alone. The ASUS SATA DVD I had this problem with doesn't stay spinning like yours but it would stop working or delay the kernel from loading and produce the same error message.

 

ALLurgroceries, you should change your nick to allurguru!! That seems to be the problem. With reading the post it looks like they are quite a bit of Asus laptops with Lite on DVD drives. I have a Lite On DVD drive. You have a Blueray if Im not mistaken which could explain why you dont have any issues! I am heading to New Orleans for work on Tuesday, and will be back on Sunday. I will be taking my laptop with me and seeing what else I can find. Also btw I fix the wireless intel nic card. Everything is working great! I am so happy just 1 more little glitch to fix.

Witch reading more it might be an issue with the firmware on the drive causing the issues in Linux. Now to see if I can find firmware for it..

 

Yeah I do have the Blu-ray, probably explains why I don't have that problem, but my buddy's desktop wouldn't boot unless we ripped his ASUS SATA DVD out, even with the latest firmware. So I don't know a way around the problem, irqpoll noacpi and nosmp (boot parameters) do absolutely nothing for this problem, just have to wait for it to get patched I guess

Glad you got the wireless working without freezing, if you pinpointed the problem I'd be interested to know the fix

Edit: BTW we tried 2.6.29.1 and it still had the same problem so AFAIK it's not been fixed yet

 

Got this of the Ubuntu Forums from a member pytheas22

"Those of you having trouble with Intel wireless on 9.04 should please follow the instructions below, which will compile the iwlagn driver from the latest code. This should hopefully fix the issues you're experiencing.

First, go to http://linuxwireless.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/ and download the file named compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2. Save it to your desktop. Then run these commands to compile and install the new driver:"

After doing that laptop been running 3 days straight and not even 1 glitch!
"Other then the DVD-R witch looks like its firmware or kernel which is out of my hands for now"

 

Woohoo I found an way newer update firmware for it..

http://files.rpc1.org/index.php?act=view&id=5619

unfortunately its an exe file and I no longer have windows. I wonder if its a basic boot and I can make it work of a win98 floppy boot disk

 

Oh no! If you get totally stuck, if you have recovery media (or a retail windows installer disc), you can make a BartPE live CD with the firmware upgrader installed (or on a USB stick or over the network, etc) to get that firmware upgraded. I was hopeful with the firmware too, but it didn't help

 

...good job guys, interesting thread. :.)

 

WE FINALLY DID IT!!!!!!
AFTER updating the firmware using Bartpe as allurgroceries sugested IT HAS BEEN WORKING without a GLITCH. I am watching a DVD movie as I am typing this. I would be lucky before if i could even see the vob files. WOOHOO!!! I am so HAPPY WE DID IT!!!

 

I would like to thank everyone who has helped me trying to figure this one. I really want to sent a special thanks to ALLurGroceries, I probably filled his msg box with all the questions I asked him. So once again thanks for all the help,,

 

That is so awesome that the firmware worked, now you don't have to wait for a patch that may never come... you've plowed through a lot of problems so I'm really glad that it paid off for you