hi community

i have a problem with starting totem..
the curious about that is after the installation everything worked fine.. sound and video up..

but one day after that, i tried to start totem.. the only thing that poped up at console was:
libhal.c 2282 : Error sending msg: No reply within specified time
It seems that totem is waiting for something ..? not even ctrl +c wont stop totem in consolemode


The process totem is sleeping

after gui starting no error messages but also sleeping process

here are my .xsession-errors:


cat .xsession-errors
/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/X11R6/bin/sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l ":0" "blubb"
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
SESSION_MANAGER=local/lametop:/tmp/.ICE-unix/4695
Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
libhal.c 767 : org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply raised
"No reply within specified time"


** (gnome-volume-manager:4794): WARNING **: manager.c/1099: seems that HAL is no t running

libhal.c 2282 : Error sending msg: No reply within specified time


someother facts:

i use debian 3.1 stable

uname -a
Linux lametop 2.6.8-2-k7 #1 Thu May 19 18:03:29 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux


lspci | grep ati
0000:00:11.6 Communication controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. Intel 537 [AC97 Modem] (rev 80)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]

lspci | grep audio
0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)


i hope you can help me






AND THE ANSWER LIES IN THE CDROM
it seems totem needs some cdrom inside .. sounds like configuration shit
help still welcome

cat /var/log/messages
Jun 30 23:25:33 localhost kernel: ide-cd: cmd 0x3 timed out
Jun 30 23:25:33 localhost kernel: hdc: lost interrupt
Jun 30 23:25:33 localhost kernel: hdc: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01)
Jun 30 23:26:33 localhost kernel: ide-cd: cmd 0x3 timed out
Jun 30 23:26:33 localhost kernel: hdc: lost interrupt
Jun 30 23:26:33 localhost kernel: hdc: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01)
Jun 30 23:27:33 localhost kernel: ide-cd: cmd 0x3 timed out
Jun 30 23:27:33 localhost kernel: hdc: lost interrupt
Jun 30 23:27:33 localhost kernel: hdc: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01)
Jun 30 23:28:33 localhost kernel: ide-cd: cmd 0x3 timed out
Jun 30 23:28:33 localhost kernel: hdc: lost interrupt
Jun 30 23:28:33 localhost kernel: hdc: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01)


all the time

I have exactly the same problem:

libhal.c 2282 : Error sending msg: Service "org.freedesktop.Hal" does not exist

i m under kde 3.3.4 kernel 2.6.11.k7 and sarge 3.1 .

i use totem-xine 0.100-5.

Could someone help us?

i have installed hal (i forgot it!!) but it's the same proble: the error message diseapper but it's always impossible to read a dvd.

But i don't have any problems with ogle.

What file could i see to try to find any error message?

hal version:

Package: hal
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 0.4.7-3sarge1

thanks for your help!