CDs not mounting on desktop

Thanks Neil.

I did a search for Mac OSX combo updater and can't find it anywhere on this site. Could you point me to it?

Thanks again.

Thanks again, Niel. I am downloading it now, as I type this message. (And sorry I misspelled your user name before.)

Oh, and just in case it is of any help, the following is the crash log itself: Maybe someone can make sense of it for me. I don't know what all the code means.

The consloe itself shows this at startup:

Mar 19 10:56:02 daniel-elsters-power-mac-g5 diskarbitrationd[32]: SystemUIServer [88]:17415 not responding.

Also, a Spotlight search for cddafs.util shows only a location on my LaCie hard drive running panther. It doesn't show up in my current internal drives. However, I checked the system folder and sure enough, it is there, despite Spotlight not finding it.

Anyway, here's the crash log:


Host Name: daniel-XXXXXXXXX-power-mac-g5
Date/Time: 2006-03-18 21:43:51.248 -0500
OS Version: 10.4.5 (Build 8H14)
Report Version: 4

Command: cddafs.util
Path: /System/Library/Filesystems/cddafs.fs/Contents/Resources/./cddafs.util
Parent: diskarbitrationd [32]

Version: ??? (???)

PID: 442
Thread: 0

Exception: EXC BADACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN PROTECTIONFAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000000

Thread 0 Crashed:
0 cddafs.util 0x00004bd0 0x1000 + 15312
1 cddafs.util 0x000031c8 0x1000 + 8648
2 cddafs.util 0x00002f68 0x1000 + 8040
3 cddafs.util 0x00002e7c 0x1000 + 7804
4 cddafs.util 0x0000269c 0x1000 + 5788
5 cddafs.util 0x00002540 0x1000 + 5440

Thread 0 crashed with PPC Thread State 64:
srr0: 0x0000000000004bd0 srr1: 0x100000000000f030 vrsave: 0x0000000000000000
cr: 0x24044442 xer: 0x0000000000000000 lr: 0x0000000000004544 ctr: 0x0000000000000001
r0: 0x0000000063696462 r1: 0x00000000bfffefb0 r2: 0x00000000a073bea8 r3: 0x0000000001800a00
r4: 0x0000000000000007 r5: 0x0000000001800000 r6: 0xffffffffffffffff r7: 0x0000000000000003
r8: 0x00000000003033b4 r9: 0x0000000000000000 r10: 0x0000000000000001 r11: 0x0000000001800a00
r12: 0x00000000900066c0 r13: 0x0000000000000000 r14: 0x0000000000000000 r15: 0x0000000000000000
r16: 0x0000000000000000 r17: 0x0000000000000000 r18: 0x0000000000000000 r19: 0x0000000000000000
r20: 0x0000000000000000 r21: 0x0000000000000000 r22: 0x0000000000000000 r23: 0x0000000000000000
r24: 0x0000000000000000 r25: 0x0000000000000000 r26: 0x00000000bffffde8 r27: 0x0000000000000018
r28: 0x0000000000300b70 r29: 0x00000000bffff4d0 r30: 0x0000000000300b70 r31: 0x0000000001800a00

Binary Images Description:
0x1000 - 0xdfff cddafs.util /System/Library/Filesystems/cddafs.fs/Contents/Resources/cddafs.util
0x8fe00000 - 0x8fe54fff dyld 44.2 /usr/lib/dyld
0x90000000 - 0x901b3fff libSystem.B.dylib /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
0x9020b000 - 0x9020ffff libmathCommon.A.dylib /usr/lib/system/libmathCommon.A.dylib
0x9073a000 - 0x90813fff com.apple.CoreFoundation 6.4.4 (368.25) /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation
0x9085e000 - 0x90960fff libicucore.A.dylib /usr/lib/libicucore.A.dylib
0x909ba000 - 0x90a3efff libobjc.A.dylib /usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib
0x90a68000 - 0x90ad6fff com.apple.framework.IOKit 1.4 (???) /System/Library/Frameworks/IOKit.framework/Versions/A/IOKit
0x90aed000 - 0x90afffff libauto.dylib /usr/lib/libauto.dylib
0x9108e000 - 0x9109cfff libz.1.dylib /usr/lib/libz.1.dylib
0x91375000 - 0x9139cfff com.apple.SystemConfiguration 1.8.2 /System/Library/Frameworks/SystemConfiguration.framework/Versions/A/SystemConfi guration
0x913af000 - 0x913b7fff libgcc_s.1.dylib /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib
0x913bc000 - 0x913dcfff libmx.A.dylib /usr/lib/libmx.A.dylib
0x919c4000 - 0x91a8cfff libcrypto.0.9.7.dylib /usr/lib/libcrypto.0.9.7.dylib

Again, thanks very much for the help.

Niel:

I downloaded the Combo Update as you suggested and opened the package with Pacifist.

Mount_cddafs.8 was in the /System/usr/share/man/man8 folder, not the one you mentioned. That is different than the Mount_cddafs file, which is located in the sbin folder.

The cddafs file in /System/Library/Extensions/ is named cddafs.kext.

Are these the files you are referring to?

Quick update:

I installed the entire combo updater. No joy. Same problem, same crash report.

Another Update:

Tried unmounting and disconnecting the drive that's running Panther to see if there was a conflict that was causing the problem. Rebooted, and reinserted a cd. A warning window appeared that said the disk is not readable by this machine. Ejected the cd and reinsterted, but the dialogue did not reappear, but neither did the cd show on the desktop. In the meantime, disk utlilty still sees that it is mounted.

I am flummoxed.

This is no small issue. Not only do I use my system to listen to my music, but installations of programs from cds will be impossible.

Niel?

Anyone?

Final Update:


I trashed the following file, ~Home/Library/Preferences/CD Info.cidb , restarted my machine, and viola! Back in business. 🙂 Thanks to Dave Sawyer on another thread.

Thanks also to Niel. Even though you did not solve my issue, I am grateful for your effort to help.