Unsure what to report these as or even what is causing them.

D. Stolte dstolte at arcor.de
Sun Oct 23 14:04:17 UTC 2005


Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 19:28 +0100, Paul wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I seem to have a couple of problems with what looks to be hal related,
>> but would like some advice.
>>
>> First is mounting and showing CDs and DVDs. If I put a data CD or DVD
>> into an FC4 machine, the disc icon shows on the desktop, the "Computer"
>> icon shows the volume name on the drive with the disk in. That isn't
>> happening on my rawhide box (and hasn't for a while).
>>
>> Instead I'm seeing Floppy Drive, Zip Drive, CD-ROM/DVD-ROM Drive,
>> CD-RW/DVD-ROM Drive, CD-RW/DVD+-R Drive, ZZZZZZZZZ ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ?,
>> ZZZZZZZZZ ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ? (2), Filesystem, Network. The ZZZ files show
>> as being USB drives.
>>
>> Currently I have an audio disc in the DVD+-R drive and that is showing
>> as Audio Disc and as an icon on my desktop.
>>
>> If I have in a data disc, nothing shows on the desktop and the only way
>> I know that something is in the drive is that /media shows cdrecorder1
>> as having >0 files in it. To unmount, I cannot right click the icon on
>> Computer and select unmount from the menu as this gives a device in use
>> error. However, if I use the Disk Management app from Redhat->System
>> Tools, I can unmount without a problem.
> 
> Hmmm, looks like you've the the same problem others have.
> 
> Add yourself on here:
> 
> 	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=170068
> 
> This has been a problem for some time (have you recently moved to
> rawhide).  Add what you've got to this bug and maybe we might see some
> action to resolve this.
> 
> 
> Rodd
> 
> 
I dont think this is a problem of gnome-vfs. My guess is that hal/udev/dbus
or some other lower layer part is broken (I dont know enough of these new
tools) because the same problem exists in kde.

/ds




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