u/UberGeek_87

For context, I'm working from home using a company provided computer. I've got a Raspberry Pi running Fedora 44 with a USB DVD drive. I'm working through trying to rip my DVDs to another drive. A KVM switch is out of the option list. I can either use RDP to run HandBrake on my Pi, or I can use the HandBrake terminal interface.

While attempting to use RDP, both HandBrake and VLC give errors about not being able to read the disk. It can't be opened. When I log in to the Pi locally, there are no issues reading the disk. It's clearly an RDP/VNC related issue.

After being unable to find an answer for that, I'm attempting to use the terminal over SSH. After popping in the DVD, HandBrakeCLI couldn't open the disk in /dev/sr0 despite 'ls /dev' showing its existence. On a hunch, I logged into a local graphical session on the Pi, and now I have no issues with HandBrakeCLI reading the /dev/sr0 over SSH. The drive is not mounted on the filesystem

What is going on behind the scenes when inserting a drive in a GUI session that doesn't happen in a terminal session to make /dev/sr0 available to be read by something like HandBrakeCLI? Again, the device is not being mounted into the files system, or at least it doesn't display when running mount.

Edit: as I think about it, it's probably the same issue for both the RDP issue and the terminal without GUI login issue.

I'm trying to install Fedora for use with a CM4 Lite on a Waveshare board. I've previously been successful in writing an image on an SD card for use with a Pi 400. Despite having successful writes and boots of the Raspberry Pi OS, the CM4 acts like it can't read the SD card with a Fedora image on it. I've used both the Fedora Media Writer and the RP Imager application to write the images. What might I attempt to get a good write of Fedora? Unfortunately, I'm using a Windoes 10 machine to do the writing.

Who is designing Space Reactor-1 Freedom for NASA? The Naval Reactors Prime Contracting Team worked on Project Prometheus for the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter mission which was canceled 20 years ago. Do we have any idea who is supposed to design and build this new power source within 2 years?