Description of problem: When inserting a CD or DVD in my DVD-writer, gnome fails to mount it. It gives an error message saying: "Cannot mount volume. Error org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.UnknownError." Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): hal-0.5.8.1-6.fc6 How reproducible: Insert CD or DVD. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: No automount, but above error message. The DVD drive icon totally disappears from nautilus, as if the drive did not exist. Expected results: CD or DVD mounted. Additional info: Before today, I've had no problems. As of today, I can't seem to mount anything dynamic, including USB sticks and my camera. The only update that got installed today is util-linux-2.13-0.46.fc6. Reverting to the previous util-linux did not help. Trouble started after trying to burn a data DVD in K3B.
Created attachment 147840 [details] Gnome mount error message
Created attachment 147841 [details] hald error log stderr output from 'hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes'
Created attachment 148041 [details] Yum update history The problem went away yesterday (February 13th 2007) after running a package update. The log contains my update history.
Created attachment 148042 [details] hald stderr log after problem went away stderr output from 'hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes' after problem went away
Trying to burn a DVD "hangs" all applications trying to do any I/O to that particular IDE channel (channel holds DVD writer and one harddisk containing /home). After some time, the harddisk's partitions are mounted read-only by the kernel, triggering several journal errors. That likely triggered this issue. I guess this particular issue is solved. I'll do some more research on what goes wrong on that particular IDE channel and file it in a separate bug, if necessary.