Re: lsdvd/tcprobe fails?

Steve Malenfant wrote:
> The problem is with Perl I believe. I upgraded my version of perl from 
> Centos to RPMForge and everything stopped working.
>
> I couldn't use dvdrip since.
>
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 6:40 PM, JD <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     Noah Romer wrote:
>
>         Noah Romer wrote:
>
>             I too am running a CentOS system (5.3, 32-bit) and am
>             seeing such behavior. Run from the command line, lsdvd
>             produces a dvd table of contents, but dvd::rip appears to
>             get stuck when calling it. Like the previous poster, the
>             last thing in my log is:
>
>             Tue Apr 21 19:32:57 2009 Start job 'Read TOC (lsdvd|tcprobe)'
>             Tue Apr 21 19:32:57 2009 Start job 'Read TOC (lsdvd)'
>             Tue Apr 21 19:32:57 2009 Executing command: execflow lsdvd
>             -a -n -c -s -v -Op \/dev\/scd0 2>/dev/null && echo EXECFLOW_OK
>
>             If another strace would be helpful, I'd be happy to
>             provide one. I'm running dvd::rip 0.98.10 and lsdvd
>             0.16-2.el5.
>
>
>         It doesn't appear to be lsdvd that's the problem. It looks
>         like maybe an issue with Event::ExecFlow. When I start
>         dvd::rip, a `ps aufx` shows it running with no child
>         processes. However, immediately after I click the "Read DVD
>         table of contents" button, it acquires a zombie child process:
>
>
>         klevin    8906  2.7  0.8 138612 34696 ?        S    15:15  
>         0:01 /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/dvdrip
>         klevin    8969  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    15:16  
>         0:00  \_ [sh] <defunct>
>
>         There's never any indication that lsdvd has actually been
>         called (the access light on the dvd drive never turns on, and
>         I don't hear it spin up).
>
>
>
>     In my case (running it on FC7), clicking to read the TOC causes
>     the dvd to spin up and you can hear it.
>     It stays spinning for about 10-20 seconds (I did not time it).
>     Then it stops. TOC is never displayed.
>
>     I am amazed that not a single developer has directly replied to
>     and addressed this problem.
>     Is no one else having this problem on other platforms?
>
>

My version of perl is perl-5.8.8-30.fc7.x86_64
So, I am not certain the problem is caused by perl.