Hello all! I'm afraid that I have no idea where the problem lies. It is probably relevant that I am a complete ignoramus where multimedia is concerned. I need to run vlc simultaneously with wireshark in order to analyse the traces for an assignment in an online course I am doing. I can run Wireshark on Trinity on Squeeze, but not on Lenny. (I believe there is a bug.) I can run vlc in Lenny, but not in Trinity/Squeeze. And yes, they are different versions. See below for extract from Squeeze syslog. All suggestions welcomed!! Even RTFM, so long as the admonition includes which %^&*!!$ Manual to read! If there is no way it could be Trinity, I'll take my request elsewhere, but I didn't like to cross-post. And I find life more comfortable if I don't force insecure KDE4 users to make snide remarks about KDE3 lovers! Thanks, all. Lisi Extract from syslog (sr0 is the correct identification of my optical drive): <quote> Dec 20 01:18:56 Trinity kernel: [123703.444680] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Unhandled sense code Dec 20 01:18:56 Trinity kernel: [123703.444686] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE Dec 20 01:18:56 Trinity kernel: [123703.444690] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Medium Error [current] Dec 20 01:18:56 Trinity kernel: [123703.444694] Info fld=0x0 Dec 20 01:18:56 Trinity kernel: [123703.444695] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error Dec 20 01:18:56 Trinity kernel: [123703.444701] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 02 00 Dec 20 01:18:56 Trinity kernel: [123703.444709] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 4096 Dec 20 01:18:56 Trinity kernel: [123703.524892] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Unhandled sense code Dec 20 01:18:56 Trinity kernel: [123703.524899] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE Dec 20 01:18:56 Trinity kernel: [123703.524903] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Medium Error [current] Dec 20 01:18:56 Trinity kernel: [123703.524908] Info fld=0x0 Dec 20 01:18:56 Trinity kernel: [123703.524909] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error Dec 20 01:18:56 Trinity kernel: [123703.524915] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 Dec 20 01:18:56 Trinity kernel: [123703.524924] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0 Dec 20 01:18:56 Trinity kernel: [123703.548711] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Unhandled sense code Dec 20 01:18:56 Trinity kernel: [123703.548717] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE Dec 20 01:18:56 Trinity kernel: [123703.548722] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Medium Error [current] Dec 20 01:18:56 Trinity kernel: [123703.548727] Info fld=0x0 Dec 20 01:18:56 Trinity kernel: [123703.548728] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error Dec 20 01:18:56 Trinity kernel: [123703.548735] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 Dec 20 01:18:56 Trinity kernel: [123703.548743] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0 </quote>