After som further testing, I have discovered that gnome-volume-manager up to 1.5.13-0ubuntu3 work fine, but none of the 1.5.14 versions work. They just exit to the command line immediately (even with -n).
** Summary changed: - CDs and DVDs fail to automatically mount + gnome-volume-manager 1.5.14 fails to start ** Description changed: Binary package hint: gnome-volume-manager - I just installed a DVD drive on a box that I previously upgraded from - Breezy to Dapper. When I place a CD-ROM in the drive, it fails to - automatically mount. I have "Mount removable media when inserted" - checked, and this line in my fstab: + (See the comments below for more insight on this problem. The + description needs to be updated based on what I found out below.) + + + I just installed a DVD drive on a box that I previously upgraded from Breezy to Dapper. When I place a CD-ROM in the drive, it fails to automatically mount. I have "Mount removable media when inserted" checked, and this line in my fstab: /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 I can mount the drive manually fine. Here is the drive information from dmesg: [4294675.444000] hdc: LITE-ON DVDRW SHW-160P6S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive [4294676.057000] ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 [4294676.082000] hda: max request size: 1024KiB [4294676.098000] hda: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100) [4294676.098000] hda: cache flushes supported [4294676.099000] hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 > [4294676.116000] hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(66) [4294676.116000] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 Any help would be appreciated. -- gnome-volume-manager 1.5.14 fails to start https://launchpad.net/bugs/43035 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs