David Curry wrote:
Arthur Pemberton wrote:
Thanks, Arthur! I had not filed a bug report on inability to mount CD drives while running the KDE desktop since FC2 is so near Fedora EOL, the problem first occurred on my RH 8.0 system, and I suspected that Fedora Bugzilla searches would be as worthless as my fedora-list archive searches with the archive search engine. But, on your gentle prodding I proceeded to file a bug report anyway until I reached the point of inputing specific message text.David Curry wrote:
FWIW, the CD drive mounting problem is not confined to Fedora Core distribution. In FC2 using a KDE 3.2 variant, I simply cannot mount either of my CD-ROM or CD-RW drives. A few days ago, running a Gnome desktop I downloaded and burned a LiveCD distribution named SimplyMEPIS which uses KDE3.3 on top of a Debian distribution.I'd like to hope that everyone complaining of this issue has filed appropriate bug reports.
I was able to boot from the LiveCd in the CD-RW drive without any problems but could not then mount the CD-ROM. One conspicuous difference between the KDE desktop MEPIS was the placement of CD drive icons on the desktop compared to having CD drives buried in submenus on the KDE (and Gnome) desktop(s) in FC2.
I logged off the gnome desktop and started a KDE desktop session, stuck a CD in /mnt/cdrom/ (CD-RW drive) and VOILA!! The drive automounted.
Trying to stick a music CD in /mnt/cdrom1/ (CD-ROM drive), I found the drive already mounted. Replacing that CD with a music CD and after adjusting some sound preferences I am now listening to music while composing this mail.
Baffling is an understatement here. I have made no changes to my system setup. No updates have been applied since I last logged into a KDE desktop session. The only thing that I can think of which might distinguish this experience from earlier attempts to use the desktop is that I had left a CD in the /mnt/cdrom1 device.
Ahh the power of bugzilla :D
On a more serious note, I suspect it may have been more benifical if the problem was more reproducable to aid the bug report. However it works for you., that's good.
Peace
