lucid: DVDs no longer accessible

D. R. Evans doc.evans at gmail.com
Thu Jul 22 21:34:35 UTC 2010


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
> 
> I didn't change anything from jaunty.
> 
> So I have two questions:
> 
> a. What changed? (Presumably, the upgrade from jaunty to lucid did
> something, but I have no idea what, or why.)
> 
> b. How do I get back the ability to mount DVDs?

So this turned out to be one of those things that should never happen in
linux. I finally had chance to reboot today... and now both DVDs are found,
and I get notifications when I put discs in the drives.

So I suppose this will remain a mystery (at least until it happens again) :-(

Thanks to everyone for the suggestions. At least I'll know that this thread
exists if this behaviour recurs.

  Doc

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