Ah, it seems your CD-ROM is just too slow. I uploaded a possible fix to my PPA (https://launchpad.net/~pitti/+archive)
hal (0.5.11~rc2-1ubuntu9~ppa1) hardy; urgency=low * Add 03_increase_helper_timeout.patch: Increase helper timeout from 10 to 20 seconds. Some CD-ROMs are too slow to do all the detection in 10 seconds. (LP: #218834) Can you please add this to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/pitti/ubuntu hardy main and tell me if it works any better? If not, can you please do the hal debugging exercise again, with this version? Thank you! -- dvd or cd does not mount https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/218834 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs