[robotman]

Running XBMC 9.11 on Opensuse 11.2. Been running it just fine for a few months and love it!

A couple of days ago I pulled out the DVD drive from my system (Dell optiplex 280) to give to a friend. Now, XBMC won't start! I'm betting that its something simple I'm missing here. Hoping someone has an idea.

I have removed the .xbmc dir from my user profile, removed xbmc altogether and recompiled and also tried to start it standalone (typically run it on top of KDE). Oh yeah, I also tried sticking a DVD drive back in but not of the same type.

I see this in strace... the last line just repeats...

[pid 6811] stat64("/dev/sr18", 0xbfce1620) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid 6811] stat64("/dev/sr19", 0xbfce1620) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid 6811] stat64("/dev/sr20", 0xbfce1620) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid 6811] stat64("/dev/sr21", 0xbfce1620) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid 6811] stat64("/dev/sr22", 0xbfce1620) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid 6811] stat64("/dev/sr23", 0xbfce1620) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid 6811] stat64("/dev/sr24", 0xbfce1620) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid 6811] stat64("/dev/sr25", 0xbfce1620) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid 6811] stat64("/dev/sr26", 0xbfce1620) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid 6811] stat64("/dev/sr27", 0xbfce1620) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid 6811] stat64("\4", 0xbfce1620) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid 6811] stat64("\10", 0xbfce1620) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid 6811] stat64("\374\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377", 0xbfce1620) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid 6811] stat64("\374\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377", 0xbfce1620) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid 6811] stat64("\374\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377", 0xbfce1620) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

[cowfodder]

Is the DVD drive still showing up in fstab? I'd venture that it's probing for that particular DVD-Rom and not finding it. Not sure though, never dealt with open-suse.

[robotman]

Nope, not in fstab, but I think you're on the right page....but I could not find any references to this old drive on a system level. What would xbmc be looking at in order to probe this device?

Also, I didn't mention, I have debug logs enabled for xbmc and nothing is logged, so this must be getting stuck very early on the startup process.