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On Thursday, 9 February 2023 10:07:41 GMT Richard Brown wrote:
>
> This is a bizarre one and I have tried Duck Duck Going but not getting
> anywhere. The DVD player was working fine and reading DVDs without any
> problems. It has stopped reading them I think. I have tried multiple
> dvds so I know it is not that.
Can you list the DVD player details as shown by lshw, this tells us make and
model the OS had found.
$ lshw -class disk
You'll have to clip out the DVD if you get multiple disk.
Paste the output, if you are keen you can run as root, but on Debian boxes you
should have permissions enough (or the group membership of the user is the
problem).
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-cdrom
description: DVD-RAM writer
product: CDDVDW SU-208GB
vendor: hp
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /dev/cdrw
logical name: /dev/dvd
logical name: /dev/dvdrw
logical name: /dev/sr0
version: HN00
capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram
configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc
WARNING: output may be incomplete or inaccurate, you should run this program
as super-user.
Also insert a disk and look at the end of the kernel log.
Probably easiest is run this command in a terminal window, and enter password
if needed.
$ sudo tail -f /var/log/kern.log
Insert the disk and paste the new bits that appear till it has failed to
mount. Then "ctrl"+"c" to terminate the "tail" command.
It could be else where but that will give up something to work on instead of
people guessing.
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