On Monday 19 December 2011 5:08:36 pm Lisi wrote: > 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> Not sure about the error message, seems like hardware but just in case. I use VLC on Squeeze, I use: deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org squeeze main non-free I also use libdvdcss2 from debian-multimedia. I still have some isues with some KDE apps not finding /dev/dvd, which is linked to /dev/sr0, but VLC finds everything ok. -- Peace, Greg