GNOME & Multisession DVDs

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Sat Feb 6 03:09:07 UTC 2010


On 02/05/2010 06:56 PM, Vassili Zaitsev wrote:
> Andrew Farris wrote:
...
>>
>> To verify whether or not you're experiencing the same thing, try opening
>> a rooted nautilus window (alt+F2 'gksudo nautilus') then see if the
>> cdrom appears in the menu on the left (or navigate to /media/cdrom* and
>> check for contents). I don't know why it would do this on a multisession
>> disk, but you never know...
>>
>>    
> Yes, the DVD appears in the Places pane and upon clicking it I can navigate down 
> to, inspect and open the disc contents (.vob, .ifo & .bup files).

My _guess_ is that this is the same permissions issue as with floppies, see:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/441835?comments=all
[Clicking on floppy gives "no device media found"]
scroll down to the last 9 or 10 comments (mine is #174).

Hmmm... I wonder if the devs also don't have DVD-RW drives.









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