lucid: DVDs no longer accessible

[Ric Moore]

On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 19:45 -0600, D. R. Evans wrote:
> 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.

I figured it had to be something simple in "System Settings", but so far
it ain't. When you find out, I'd like to know too. Ric