[Bug 993728] Re: /dev/dvd disappears when a DVD is inserted

[Forest]

You folks whose media players are still broken by the missing /dev/dvd
link might want to open a new bug report, especially if your /dev/dvd is
not even present at boot time with an empty DVD drive.  I suggest
emphasizing that this problem breaks the average user's ability to play
DVDs, since there still seem to be some developers involved who think
it's okay to break a user's working system in the name of "progress".
(The correct way to handle deprecating /dev/dvd would have been to keep
supporting it until all the widely-used players were updated to use
/dev/sr0 by default. That obviously has not been done here.)

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Title:
  /dev/dvd disappears when a DVD is inserted

Status in “udev” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  On a fresh boot, with no DVD inserted:

  $ ls -Al /dev/dvd
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 May  2 18:25 /dev/dvd -> sr0

  As soon as I insert a DVD:

  $ ls -l /dev/dvd
  ls: cannot access /dev/dvd: No such file or directory

  The only new lines in dmesg are:

  [   88.411709] UDF-fs: Partition marked readonly; forcing readonly mount
  [   88.472834] UDF-fs: INFO Mounting volume 'WILLIAM_CASTLE_FILM_COLLECTION', timestamp 2009/08/19 19:32 (1e5c)

  This is on a fully updated install of Ubuntu 12.04, with udev
  175-0ubuntu9.

  I don't want /dev/dvd to stop existing exactly when I need to use it.

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