CD mount problem after DVD rip

[Bob Chiodini]

On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 23:20 -0500, jim branagan wrote:
> I used to be able to write and rip audio CD's, with cdda2wav and 
> cdrecord, and write data CD's with xcdroast, and to mount data CD's and 
> open them to copy out contents.  I am using a Memorex CD-writer/DVD-rom 
> drive.
> 
> The other day I mounted and read data from a data DVD.
> 
> Now I can't rip, write or mount CD's anymore.
> I get the message '/dev/hdc already mounted or /media/cdrecorder is busy'.
> mount and mtab show /dev/hdc is not mounted.
> Shutting down the machine and rebooting does not help.
> I can still mount and read DVD's though - KDE says the DVD is mounted, 
> and can transfer files from it, but mount/mtab say /dev/hdc is not 
> mounted.  Attempting to unmount /dev/hdc results in '/dev/hdc not 
> mounted'.  I don't see anything else unexpected mounted.
> 
> KDE continues to show CD-ROM as mounted even without a CD or DVD in the 
> drive; trying to unmount by context menu fails.  I removed 'autorun' 
> from my start folder, and renamed /usr/bin/autorun long ago, so it isn't 
> autorun related.
> 
> OK, HELP!   What the $#@!* is going on, and how do I get the ability to 
> mount CD's back again?
> 
> In summary: CD's worked fine until I read data from a DVD, now I can 
> only read DVD's????
> 
> 

Try killing /usr/libexec/gam_server or as suggested in another post
reboot.

Bob...