Bug 579256

I tried the following approach:

1) boot with a DVD in the drive
2) login to KDE, the medium is visible in device notifier under its proper label
3) use root account from console to unmount the DVD
4) KDE device notifier detected media was unmounted
5) use root account from console to eject the DVD
6) KDE device notifier retained previous label in the list, still showing unmounted
7) insert another DVD
6) KDE device notifier did not detect any change
8) Mounted the other DVD using KDE device notifier, but under the previous label

This way, I am able to change DVDs in the drive in one KDE session, all under the label of the first one. KDE device notifier did not detect the change of media, it still thinks it was the previous one.

So some kind of interaction from command line works, and I suppose it is not a kernel issue then; More probably the issue of KDE, or communication between KDE and those *Kit applications?

It seems that udisks (DeviceKit) knows about media changes. See the steps and udisks output below below. But KDE Device Notifier is not aware of any change. Strange because USB media seem to work correctly with KDE Device Notifier, even that U3 stuff pretending to be an optical disk.

1) boot without any DVD media being inserted into the DVD drive
2) log into KDE
3) check with udisks: has media: 0
4) insert a DVD media, wait a few seconds
5) check KDE Device Notifier: no DVD media shown
6) udisks shows media was detected, see below
7) remove the DVD media
8) check with udisks: has media: 0
9) KDE Device Notifier - hmm, nothing as before


$ udisks --dump
...
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Showing information for /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sr0
  native-path:                 /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.1/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0/block/sr0
  device:                      11:0
  device-file:                 /dev/sr0
    presentation:              /dev/sr0
    by-path:                   /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1f.1-scsi-1:0:0:0
  detected at:                 Sat 17 Apr 2010 08:32:28 PM CEST
  system internal:             0
  removable:                   1
  has media:                   1 (detected at Sat 17 Apr 2010 08:34:19 PM CEST)
    detects change:            1
    detection by polling:      1
    detection inhibitable:     1
    detection inhibited:       0
  is read only:                0
  is mounted:                  0
  mount paths:             
  mounted by uid:              0
  presentation hide:           0
  presentation nopolicy:       0
  presentation name:           
  presentation icon:           
  size:                        4641751040
  block size:                  2048
  job underway:                no
  usage:                       filesystem
  type:                        iso9660
  version:                     Joliet\x20Extension
  uuid:                        
  label:                       MyDisk
  optical disc:
    blank:                     0
    appendable:                0
    closed:                    1
    num tracks:                1
    num audio tracks:          0
    num sessions:              1
  drive:
    vendor:                    Optiarc
    model:                     DVD RW AD-7593A
    revision:                  1.05
    serial:                    
    WWN:                       
    detachable:                0
    can spindown:              0
    rotational media:          Yes, unknown rate
    write-cache:               unknown
    ejectable:                 1
    adapter:                   /org/freedesktop/UDisks/adapters/0000_3a00_3a1f_2e1
    ports:
      /org/freedesktop/UDisks/adapters/0000_3a00_3a1f_2e1/host1
    similar devices:
    media:                     optical_dvd_plus_r
      compat:                  optical_cd optical_cd_r optical_cd_rw optical_dvd optical_dvd_plus_r optical_dvd_plus_r_dl optical_dvd_plus_rw optical_dvd_r optical_dvd_ram optical_dvd_rw optical_mrw optical_mrw_w
    interface:                 scsi
    if speed:                  (unknown)
    ATA SMART:                 not available

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rpm -q hal-storage-addon
please.

If it's not installed, please do so.

If it is installed, then the issue lies there, most likely.

Looks like they indeed made this split in F13 too (was originally planned for f14+ only).  Re-assigning to kdebase-runtime to add this dep.

hal-storage-addon was not installed. After installing it and rebooting, the KDE Device Notifier works as expected.

Thanks a lot for help.

kdebase-runtime-4.4.2-2.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kdebase-runtime-4.4.2-2.fc13

kdebase-runtime-4.4.2-2.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.