Ah, I bet it is because gdu-volume-monitor crashes for CD-ROM drives, most probably this is bug 376145.
I can reproduce it here. dk-disks sees the CD-ROM, but gvfs doesn't. ** Changed in: gvfs (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Triaged -- gnome doesn't 'see' cdroms/dvds https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/431055 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gvfs in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs