GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 316935
'No disc in drive' at every startup
Last modified: 2008-01-15 13:00:40 UTC
Starting GIMP and trying to use the Open | File menu option is now consistently producing the error messge: 'There is no disc in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive' No matter where I select an image - on returning to GIMP later I get the same...
When exactly do you get the error message? what version of GTK+ are you using? Have you checked for duplicates in product gtk+ ?
I get the message at two point: During GIMP initial startup at which point I select 'Continue'. Then again when GIMP has loaded and I select File | Open. I'm using GTK 2.4.14 as using 2.6.9 downloaded from here: http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html causes 100% CPU usage when running GIMP 2.2.8 I don't understand the duplicates bit...sorry...
I found something on this problem here: http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/faq.html as follows: "I'm getting a message There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive \Device\harddisk4\dr6 every time I run the Gimp. What should I do? This seems to happen if you have a flash card reader connected. Currently no solution is known, but Gimp works fine anyway." I have an Epson Photo Printer that has a built in card reader. I disabled the card reader element in Device Manager and...problem gone. As you can see the answer to this in the FAQ is "Currently no solution is known..." Well, the solution, as far as I can see, is to stop GIMP scanning every device on the PC at startup. I know it does this as I can hear 'Drive A:' being accessed and it lists every device on my machine in the 'Open Image' dialogue, including virtual drives with disk images mounted on them! So, some combination of stopping this machine 'scan' and probably allowing the user to set a chosen startup location would seem to be the answer. I don't know how you want to handle this now - I have proposed a solution to a known bug. What happens now... Thanks.
Please update gtk+. This problem is supposed to be solved in the newer releases.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 170948 ***
Can't update to the latest GTK as there is a huge CPU usage issue with it: Bug: 316853 I have tried to use the latest GTK but it is unusable due to the problem above. Completely reproducible, on two machines with fresh installs. Appreciate your comments.
"Fresh installs" of what - the OS?
No - well, the machine is recently rebuilt and fully patched. I mean fresh installs of GIMP and GTK. I remove them completely and re-install to test the different GTK versions for the CPU usage problem.