lucid: DVDs no longer accessible

[D. R. Evans]

Goh Lip said the following at 07/19/2010 07:13 PM :
> On 07/20/2010 06:16 AM, D. R. Evans wrote:
>> D. R. Evans said the following at 07/19/2010 04:11 PM :
> 
> 
>> Also, there is no mention of any /dev/sr* device in /etc/fstab (not even
>> /dev/sr0).
> 
> Did you, by any chance install lucid, or upgrade to lucid, by mounting 
> the iso file? (mount -o loop xxxxxxxxxx.iso /media/xxxx)
> 

Nope. I did the vanilla upgrade over the Internet.

> I have a similiar issue with Maverick and settled this by manually 
> adding an entry to cdrom in the fstab, (reboot is necessary).
> 
> /dev/scd0       /media/cdrom   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0

That wouldn't affect a /dev/sr* device though (would it)?

And from what Mark said in e-mail
201007192337.46739.captain_bodge at yahoo.co.uk, "you no longer need an entry
for any removeable drive in /etc/fstab". (Also I'm not clear why a reboot
would change anything; /etc/fstab should be read every time a device is
mounted.)

I'm willing to try it when I can do a reboot, but that won't be for a few
days (I'm running a long background job). I can't say I'm sanguine, but
maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised.

Does anyone else have any other suggestions I could try in the meantime?

Removeable drives is something I know very little about in Linux. I don't
know what, for example, creates the /dev/sr* filesystem entries.

  Doc

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