From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 Description of problem: FC3 with Gnome desktop fails to automount DVDs on Plextor PX-712A, instead the Nautilus DVD-burning-tool is started (assuming an empty DVD-R?). /var/log/messages says: Feb 13 11:46:57 belushi kernel: cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize! However, the same DVD can be mounted/read manually ("mount /dev/dvd /media/dvd" or "~/media/cdrecorder") on the same system. In adition, the same DVD is beeing recognized/automounted if a CD is inserted/automounted into the same DVV-recorder first: (Comments are pseudo-xml-tags :-) ) <fresh reboot> <insert dvd in plextor> Feb 13 11:50:03 belushi kernel: cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize! </insert dvd in plextor> <insert cd in plextor> Feb 13 11:50:48 belushi kernel: cdrom: hda: mrw address space DMA selected Feb 13 11:50:48 belushi kernel: SELinux: initialized (dev hda, type iso9660), uses genfs_contexts </insert cd in plextor> <insert dvd in plextor again> Feb 13 11:51:47 belushi kernel: SELinux: initialized (dev hda, type iso9660), uses genfs_contexts </insert dvd in plextor again> </fresh reboot> I recorded this bug for udev, because I believe, that the underlying kernel, mount, filesystem-stuff is in principle ok (otherwise no manual mount). I'm not shure if it is really an udev issue. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): udev-039-10.FC3.6 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot PC 2. Insert DVD in ATAPI-DVD-recorder (not recognized) 3. Remove DVD from ATAPI-DVD-recorder 4. Insert CD in ATAPI-DVD-recorder (will be recognized) 5. Remove CD from ATAPI-DVD-recorder 6. Insert DVD in ATAPI-DVD-recorder (will be recognized) 7. Remove DVD from ATAPI-DVD-recorder Actual Results: DVD is not recognized at first After CD has been inserted, recognized, DVDs are beeing recognized as well. After next reboot, it again does not recognize DVDs. Expected Results: DVDs should always be recognized/automounted. Additional info: Hardware: CPU: Athlon 64 3200+ MoBo: ASUS K8N (NVIDIA nForce3 250) HD: S-ATA SP1614C (160,0 GB) Gfx: nVidia GeForce 6600GT + nVidia-drivers DVD: Plextor PX-712A (DVD�R/RW) (ATAPI, not S-ATA!) Plextor DVD-Recorder is only removable media in system FC3: Linux belushi.fww.lan 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 #1 Thu Nov 18 15:10:10 EST 2004 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux Running 32bit FC3! not 64bit!!
what does this have to do with udev??
As I said, I am not shure, maybe this has nothing to do with udev, but it is definitely a bug concerning automounting/autodetection of external media. Sorry for posting it to the wrong section.
This sounds like a bug with either your optical drive or the driver for it not initialising it correctly. Reassigning to the kernel.
An update has been released for Fedora Core 3 (kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3) which may contain a fix for your problem. Please update to this new kernel, and report whether or not it fixes your problem. If you have updated to Fedora Core 4 since this bug was opened, and the problem still occurs with the latest updates for that release, please change the version field of this bug to 'fc4'. Thank you.
Installed kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3 but the bug still remains (somewhat :-). Instead of opening the DVD-burn-utility, it displays a DVD-Icon, but the content o f the DVD can not be viewed in the filemanager. If I do steps 5 - 7, the old behaviour remains.
This is a mass-update to all currently open Fedora Core 3 kernel bugs. Fedora Core 3 support has transitioned to the Fedora Legacy project. Due to the limited resources of this project, typically only updates for new security issues are released. As this bug isn't security related, it has been migrated to a Fedora Core 4 bug. Please upgrade to this newer release, and test if this bug is still present there. This bug has been placed in NEEDINFO_REPORTER state. Due to the large volume of inactive bugs in bugzilla, if this bug is still in this state in two weeks time, it will be closed. Should this bug still be relevant after this period, the reporter can reopen the bug at any time. Any other users on the Cc: list of this bug can request that the bug be reopened by adding a comment to the bug. Thank you.
This is a mass-update to all currently open kernel bugs. A new kernel update has been released (Version: 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4) based upon a new upstream kernel release. Please retest against this new kernel, as a large number of patches go into each upstream release, possibly including changes that may address this problem. This bug has been placed in NEEDINFO_REPORTER state. Due to the large volume of inactive bugs in bugzilla, if this bug is still in this state in two weeks time, it will be closed. Should this bug still be relevant after this period, the reporter can reopen the bug at any time. Any other users on the Cc: list of this bug can request that the bug be reopened by adding a comment to the bug. If this bug is a problem preventing you from installing the release this version is filed against, please see bug 169613. Thank you.
Closing per previous comment.
Installed a clean FC6 on the same machine mentioned in the first post and the problem is still there. I did an update of the firmware to the most recent release from Plextor, but it did not help. DVD works flawlessly under Windows Vista RC1, so it might be a driver-problem.
I have a specific video DVD which has issues with FC6. On my newest machine with a clean install of FC6, but using the same DVD drive that was able to play the DVD flawlessly when I originally bought it, the DVD doesn't even mount. There are no error messages at all in /var/log/messages. On an older machine with a newer, cheaper DVD drive, the DVD mounts, but attempting to play it in xine causes it to hang at the DVD menu. Again, no error messages. I can play individual tracks with mplayer, but the picture is scratchy and it uses almost 100% CPU, which it shouldn't. Other DVDs cause no problems on either machine. Possibly related is the fact that on the older machine, and on one even older than that (too old to play DVDs), there are /dev/hdc error messages on bootup, though the drives can read CDs just fine. I haven't tried burning any CDs on any of the machines yet.
This bug has been solved with FC8, so it seems to be related to the updated handling of external media.
Closing per comment #11. Feel free to reopen if the problem recurs.