Unable to mount Data DVD created under Windows XP or Vista that are in UDF format

Same problem,

I have created a 4400 MB DAR file (Edgy backup) and burned to DVD (UDF).

Then installed Feisty, inserted the disk and got:
"Invalid mount option when attempting to mount"...

Confirmed here. Trying to install Command and Conquer 3.

Specifiing the type during a manual mount:

sudo mount -t udf /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom0

.. works.

Mounting the DVD directly using /dev/dvd in a console works as well to fix the problem.

This is stilll very much a problem. It's just a gnome problem. This still has to be fixed as a user pops in there DVD and get a message saying it cannot mount it.

OK, another problem...

I have a original Futurama DVD (more than 4,7 GB) and I tried my "mount -t udf ..." but I can't work with it. I can browse the VIDEO_TS folder, see the files and their size, but when I want to copy them to my HDD, it tells me some error.

I can't even plan the video via VLC Player.

Help please, is this still the bug? It is very annoying and I'm thinking of reverting to edgy :(

here's my log:

cp /media/cdrom0/VIDEO_TS/* /home/michal/Desktop/
cp: reading `/media/cdrom0/VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB': Input/output error

Yeap I have the same problem with a Data DVD that I burned with Nero Linux. I works perfectly on Windows XP, you can browse all its content.

OK, I found that while I'm in the root X session (I know it's not good idea) mounting works. Maybe any privileges problem?

does "gnome-mount --device /dev/dvd" works correctly?

I don't have the notebook with me, but next week I'll give it a try. Thanks for response, I'll write it there then.

This bug stil exists! I just burned a DVD under Windows Vista . Trying to mount in Ubuntu I get

Cannot mount volume.

Invalid mount option when attempting to
mount the volume 'UDF Volume'

This link is a patch to Linux udf filesystem driver .. that fixes this issue (I have not tested it):
 http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/UDF_2.01_on_Linux

I have the problem on Hardy.
Following things I read in the internet I changed my fstab to
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 auto user,noauto,exec,utf8
but still it didd not work.
(The link of the prrevious post I could NOT open).

I had a similar mount problem related to a usb hard drive.

Following line in /etc/fstab was the reason for this error:

/dev/sdb1 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

ubuntu declared sdb1 as a cdrom drive, which is obviously wrong.
I suggest everybody with this problem to investigate the fstab file.

@cassen
         You shure your talking about the same bug? The device name doesn't matter. Mine is /dev/scd0 and I have the exact same fstab entry

/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

The problem is Ubuntu does not support multi session UDF formatted CDs, which is the format that Windows XP & Windows Vista uses to create data CDs.

thank you for your bug report, could you try if that's still an issue in hardy? does gnome-mount mount it correctly?

Yes this problem is still in Hardy. So anyone who burns a CD using Windows Vista or Windows XP built in CD burning software .. cannot mount the CD in Ubuntu Hardy.

Confirmed - still a problem in Hardy, and no, unfortunately, neither the above gnome-mount thing nor the manual mount work either. When attempting to manually mount, got the below:

-------
mount: block device /dev/scd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/scd0,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail or so
------

dmesg then showed:

[ 272.797344] UDF-fs: No fileset found
[ 272.854845] ISOFS: Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
[ 341.408507] UDF-fs: No fileset found
[ 341.453989] ISOFS: Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
[ 368.409030] UDF-fs: No fileset found

BTW - fstab is stock - i.e. :

/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

 OK i sucessfuly mount CD-RW and DVD-RW (burned in Windows):

 sudo mount /dev/scd1 /media/cdrom1 -s -t udf -o ro,user,noauto,exec,umask=0,session=0

 that will mount just last session, if you want to mount whole disk then look which is
the last block with:

 for DVD:

  dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/dvd

  (look for last track (number) in Track#AA)

 for CD:

  wodim dev='/dev/sr1' -toc

  (look in track:lout lba:)

  That number than add to the end of mount options like this:

 sudo mount /dev/scd1 /media/cdrom1 -s -t udf -o ro,user,noauto,exec,umask=0,session=0,lastblock=266636

 Hope i'm help someone:).

the issue doesn't seem to be a nautilus one

dungeon thanks for the mounting guide but that is way too complicated.

This bug has a "low" priority, and it has been going for quite some time, can anyone take this seriously? So please can anyone fix this and commit it to a package one can download??

Thanks

Hi Guys,

Would someone here be willing to test the latest Alpha release for the upcoming Intrepid Ibex 8.10? http://www.ubuntu.com/testing . The reason I ask is that it has a 2.6.26 based kernel and contains some updated patches regarding UDF media. For example:

commit bfb257a5981af805a9394f00f75d3d9f7b611cc0
Author: Jan Kara <email address hidden>
Date: Tue Apr 8 20:37:21 2008 +0200

    udf: Add read-only support for 2.50 UDF media

    This patch implements parsing of metadata partitions and reading of Metadata
    File thus allowing to read UDF 2.50 media. Error resilience is implemented
    through accessing the Metadata Mirror File in case the data the Metadata File
    cannot be read. The patch is based on the original patch by Sebastian Manciulea
    <email address hidden> and Mircea Fedoreanu <email address hidden>.

Bug 243696 had exhibited similar issues to this report and there was confirmation that the newer 2.6.26 based Intrepid kernel resolved the issue for a few. Please let us know your results if you are able to test. Thanks.

Just tested by DDing the CDrom I've been using to test this into a file, and adding it to my Intrepid KVM instance. It sees it as a UDF filesystem and Gnome opens it now without issue. So this is now fixed in Intrepid. So it works now!

Got UDF dvds to mount by following ths guide (http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4999342&postcount=10) with the latest hardy kernel (2.6.24-19). Tried this guide with old versions of the kernel but that did not work.
There still some of my DVDs that are not mounting (giving out the same error) but most mount without problem.
Hope this helps.

And in Intrepid, it "just works," (i.e. put the disk in, and
double-click on it). :)

Quoting abhishek <email address hidden>:

> Got UDF dvds to mount by following ths guide
> (http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4999342&postcount=10) with
> the latest hardy kernel (2.6.24-19). Tried this guide with old
> versions of the kernel but that did not work.
> There still some of my DVDs that are not mounting (giving out the
> same error) but most mount without problem.
> Hope this helps.
>
> --
> Unable to mount Data DVD created under Windows XP or Vista that are
> in UDF format
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/106910
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> of the bug.
>

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In my Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10, it matters if the CD RW data disk is compressed or not. Ubuntu reads an uncompressed data disk just fine, but as soon as I pop in a compressed one (by Roxio Easy CD Creator 7) , the error message appears about invalid mount option, a dbus error and no reply. Workaround is to use an uncompressed data disk.

I am getting this error in Jaunty. Same issue as Dylan - neither gnome-mount nor mounting from the command line works and the same output that he posted:

$ sudo mount -t udf /dev/cdrom /media/dvd
mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail or so

$ dmesg | tail
[ 694.199488] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Medium Error [current]
[ 694.199501] Info fld=0x226200
[ 694.199505] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error
[ 694.199519] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 9013248
[ 694.199532] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 1126656
[ 695.212635] UDF-fs: No VRS found
[ 695.571281] ISOFS: Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
[ 907.787925] UDF-fs: No VRS found
[ 952.829588] UDF-fs: No VRS found
[ 953.147279] ISOFS: Unable to identify CD-ROM format.

This is a UDF data DVD that works correctly in Windows.

My DVDs are working fine on jaubty even. I've had no problems with the DVDs created in Windows on Ubuntu after Intrepid.

Kubuntu 9.04 64b
2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:58:03 UTC 2009

See my bug #377373 https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/377373
You are telling that the fix was released on 2008-08-12 but I can still reproduce it!

# modprobe udf
# mount -t udf /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom0/
mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail or so
# mount /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom0 -t udf -o ro,user,noauto,exec,umask=0,session=0,lastblock=1
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail or so

It seems that udf module is loaded.
# lsmod | grep udf
udf 92584 0
crc_itu_t 10496 1 udf
#

# dmesg | tail
[ 515.908073] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
[ 515.911255] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 8
[ 515.914522] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 1248
[ 515.917738] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 2496
[ 515.921450] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 4
[ 515.924617] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
[ 515.927853] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 8
[ 515.931434] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 1248
[ 515.934830] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 2496
[ 515.934978] UDF-fs: No partition found (1)

I used commercial audio CD for testing which was bought in the music store. The same CD I am able to mount and listen in Ubuntu 8.10 32b!
Please raise the importance from low.

Ahoj Honzo :)

Well, I solved this problem by reinstalling the system from scratch. I know this isn't even a workaround, but it works. Now I'm using Jaunty amd64 on my HP 6510b and mounting works well. I think the issue can appear after upgrade from previous versions...did you upgrade or installed it from CD?

Sorry for not being much helpful :(

Nazdar Michale,
thanx for the reply. But I'm afraid, it won't work. This is the fresh install (no upgrade). First I upgraded from Ubuntu 8.10 32b to Ubuntu 9.04 but the system was broken after that. So I decided to give one more chance to KDE4. And I installed Kubuntu 9.04 64bit from USB disk on my Toshiba Tecra M9.

I can still reproduce this issue on Kubuntu 9.04 64 bit.

If you are still experiencing issues with the latest Jaunty release could you please open a new separate bug report. The reason I say this is because Jerone, the original bug reporter, commented this issue was resolved for him back in Intrepid - https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/106910/comments/25 . So if you are still experiencing an issue, you likely have a different bug which will likely require a different fix/patch and thus warrants a new bug report. Thanks.

I don't know much about linux, I decided to install it to get max fps in my games, but I can't run it that well, too many problems trying to install drivers and crap so I'm going back to windows, but this is my problem and it deals with this...sort of

I have a Windows XP Pro Black edition (Nemesis i think), 1 problem is that it's on an ISO, and when I put it in I get the message about mounting and 'UDF Volume"
I'm running Ubuntu "hardy".

Can anyone give me step by step on how to make it so I can get this thing on my desktop and run the ISO files (someone from the ubuntu forums said it should work easily if I get it on my desktop)