jim branagan wrote:
Bob Chiodini wrote:Not only does shutting down, disconnecting power, reconnecting and rebooting not help, but several cycles of this to uninstall and re-install a cd-writer/dvd-rom drive didn't help either.On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 23:20 -0500, jim branagan wrote:Shutting down the machine and rebooting does not help.Try killing /usr/libexec/gam_server or as suggested in another post reboot. Bob...I can still read data from a dvd (which claims not to be mounted), and still cannot mount a CD. It's not a really weird hardware problem with the drive, because I can boot into my old FC1 system and CD's work fine there.Oh, by the way, this is an FC3 system with a planet CCRMA kernel. It might not be a Fedora issue.
Do you still have a Fedora kernel on your system? Can you try booting from the emergency disk and giving it a try?
-- Robin Laing