[hikaricore]

Are you 100% sure? Because hal is NOT installed by default in 10.04 you said this was a fresh install.

[beaujolais]

I'm using Mythbuntu 10.04. ...maybe they added HAL. I didn't install it manually.

[xgamer99]

Code:

ryan@ryan-media:~$ sudo apt-get install hal
[sudo] password for ryan:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
hal is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 70 not upgraded.

HAL must be installed as a dependency for xbmc or something, cause it was installed on mine.

Here's the Debug log. The steps taken: Enable debug logging, reboot (creates new log), wait for it to boot, insert DVD ("Blue Streak"), wait a few seconds, click the play button, error pops up, exit error via CANCEL button, pull log via SFTP.

EDIT: log was too much text, moved here.

Checking mount, it seems that the DVD drive isn't mounted, which could be the problem:

Code:

~$ mount
/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
none on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
/dev/sdb1 on /media/External type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096,default_permissions)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)

Ever since I bypassed the GNOME login to enter directly into the XBMC session, the USB drive I use doesn't auto-mount by default. I had to make a special Udev rule for it to mount to /media/ whenever a USB drive is detected. Maybe by bypassing the Ubuntu desktop as many of us do, the auto-mount feature (which is a GNOME process I believe -- a process that isn't started if we bypass GNOME) fails, thus the DVD drive doesn't mount.

That's my theory, I could be completely wrong. =P

It's been so long since I've manually mounted a CD drive that I've forgotten how to do it. Let me see if I can Google it. =)

EDIT: Well, I mounted /dev/sr0 to /cdrom. It was apparently successful, since I can browse the video_ts directory on the DVD. however, XBMC is still spitting an error. Does it look for a DVD in a certain location (perhaps in /media/ ?)?

EDIT 2: Just did some more testing. I made a symlink that directed both /media/cdrom and /media/cdrom0 (the two directorys I think XBMC might look at for the DVD) to /cdrom. I even added an fstab entry to automount it on boot and rebooted the computer in hope that XBMC would reset itself. Nothing worked. Methinks it's a XBMC problem.

I don't know how to open up a bug report, so someone else needs to. they can use my log if they like. =)

[beaujolais]

There is already a bug report http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/8715 ...the problem is that is unassigned and nobody seems to be working on a fix

[thatjoshguy]

There is already a bug report http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/8715 ...the problem is that is unassigned and nobody seems to be working on a fix

DOH! Dev team: Pretty please with sugar on top? Would be sweet if this is fixed for the next release, even better if it's in the SVN!