A couple of remarks. AFAIK, UDF is mostly used on DVD's, so our first concern is getting these to play (and I'm deliberately avoiding the terms "getting it to work" because that's what it does now, too, in a weird way, albeit). Then, some users will complain about their memory sticks and other stuff that have "suddenly" wrong permissions, but that's IMHO less important. So it's not "randomly change permissions", it's "play the DVD, then clean up".
However, I found out an anomaly. While UDF rights on a DVD can be wrong and Totem will refuse to play such DVD's when you use "file - play [dvd title]", it *will* play the DVD when you run totem dvd:// So this is my DVD: ls -l /media/SING_FOR_DARFUR_ENG_FESTIVAL/ totaal 4 dr-xr-xr-x 2 valentyn 4294967295 40 2008-08-07 16:07 AUDIO_TS dr--r--r-- 2 valentyn 4294967295 508 2008-05-07 10:24 VIDEO_TS stout~$ ls -l /media/SING_FOR_DARFUR_ENG_FESTIVAL/VIDEO_TS/ ls: kan geen toegang krijgen tot /media/SING_FOR_DARFUR_ENG_FESTIVAL/VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.BUP: Toegang geweigerd ls: kan geen toegang krijgen tot /media/SING_FOR_DARFUR_ENG_FESTIVAL/VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO: Toegang geweigerd ls: kan geen toegang krijgen tot /media/SING_FOR_DARFUR_ENG_FESTIVAL/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.BUP: Toegang geweigerd [etcetera] totaal 0 ?????????? ? ? ? ? ? VIDEO_TS.BUP ?????????? ? ? ? ? ? VIDEO_TS.IFO ?????????? ? ? ? ? ? VTS_01_0.BUP [etcetera] However, running totem dvd:// *will* play this DVD! Ahem? In other news: my Imac suddenly changes permissions when a DVD is concerned - I'm currently re-checking and will post my results shortly. -- DVDs with restrictive permissions are unreadable for normal user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10550 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
