lucid: DVDs no longer accessible

[D. R. Evans]

Mark Greenwood said the following at 07/19/2010 04:37 PM :
> On Monday 19 Jul 2010 23:16:18 D. R. Evans wrote:
>> D. R. Evans said the following at 07/19/2010 04:11 PM :
>>> This worked fine in jaunty (and earlier releases).
>>> 
>>> 1. When I put a DVD in my DVD reader, there is no longer any kind of
>>> popup notification.
>>> 
>>> 2. If I try to mount /dev/sr0 (which for some reason is now the
>>> designation of the first drive; it silently changed a couple of
>>> releases ago; I forget what it used to be), I get: $ mount /dev/sr0 
>>> mount: no medium found on /dev/sr0
>>> 
>>> 3. If I try to mount /dev/sr1 (my second DVD drive) I get: $ mount
>>> /dev/sr1 mount: can't find /dev/sr1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
>>> 
>> 
>> FWIW:
>> 
>> $ ls -al /dev/sr* brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 2010-07-19 16:09
>> /dev/sr0
>> 
>> I have no idea where there isn't a sr1 entry, nor exactly how to
>> generate one with the correct properties.
>> 
>> Also, there is no mention of any /dev/sr* device in /etc/fstab (not
>> even /dev/sr0).
>> 
>> Doc
>> 
>> 
> I can't fully answer the question, but you no longer need an entry for
> any removeable drive in /etc/fstab. I think this is all now handled
> transparently by udev.

OK... except that apparently this is one of those cases where something
that is supposed to be happening automagically isn't in fact happening :-(
Sp if anyone has any pointers as to what I can do to make the DVD drives
behave the way they're supposed to, I'd be most appreciative.

> 
> Given the permissions on /dev/sr0, I'd check that your user is in the
> 'cdrom' group, and add yourself to it if not.

It is in the "cdrom" group.

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