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can't find /dev/sr0

#1 Post by spkslayer »

I just got done watching a DVD movie on my puppy linux lucid 5.2.8 and I wanted to watch another and tryed it a couple times and it says this "Playback failure:
DVDRead could not open the disc "/dev/dvd".
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'dvd:///dev/dvd'. Check the log for details.
Playback failure:
DVDRead could not open the disc "/dev/dvd".
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'dvd:///dev/dvd'. Check the log for details."

I tryed all types of players.

i go to /dev and try to find /dev/dvd or /dev/cdrom and they are there but the icon is a tryangle with a big ! in the middle. win i click it it says "File doesn't exist, or I can't access it: /dev/dvd"

so I looked for /dev/sr0. and it is nowhere. /dev/sr1 through /dev/sr3 is there but no /dev/sr0.

I dont know wat happend i watched a movie and tryed to watch an other one and play a audio CD and this happend.
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#2 Post by spkslayer »

here is a pic of the /dev/dvd and /dev/cdrom
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Re: can't find /dev/sr0

#3 Post by PANZERKOPF »

spkslayer wrote:I just got done watching a DVD movie on my puppy linux lucid 5.2.8 and I wanted to watch another and tryed it a couple times and it says this "Playback failure:
DVDRead could not open the disc "/dev/dvd".
/dev/dvd and /dev/cdrom just are simlinks to the real device. An exclaim in triangle means that simlinks are broken (because real device is missing or its name is changed).
Look in /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info, determine a real device then create a simlink to the real device.
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#4 Post by spkslayer »

How do I create simlink?
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#5 Post by PANZERKOPF »

spkslayer wrote:How do I create simlink?
ln -s /path/file /path/simlink
For example, if your real device is /dev/sr0 :
rm /dev/cdrom (remove broken simlink)
ln -s /dev/sr0 /dev/cdrom (create new simlink)
or with single command:
ln -s -f /dev/sr0 /dev/cdrom (remove broken simlink then create new)
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#6 Post by spkslayer »

I just tryed that and nothing still the same
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#7 Post by spkslayer »

I think that /dev/sr0 is not there
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#8 Post by rcrsn51 »

I think that /dev/sr0 is not there
Is this a frugal install? If so, go to the folder /initrd/pup_ro2/dev.

Locate the file sr0.

Open another window to /dev.

Drag the file from the first window to the second.
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#9 Post by spkslayer »

its a full install.
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#10 Post by rcrsn51 »

In that case, get out your Puppy CD and mount it.

Click on the sfs file to mount it.

Go to its /dev folder and drag the sr0 file to your main /dev.
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#11 Post by spkslayer »

I dont have the Puppy disk and my computer wont read any disks
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#12 Post by rcrsn51 »

Do you have the Puppy ISO file?
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#13 Post by SFR »

spkslayer wrote:I think that /dev/sr0 is not there
You could try this:

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mknod /dev/sr0 b 11 0
Out of curiosity I have deleted and recreated sr0 this way.

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http://lists.debian.org/debian-68k/2002 ... 00033.html

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#14 Post by spkslayer »

Whoohoo thx that fixed it
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#15 Post by spkslayer »

Now after I did that it won't let me get on the Internet
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