> Has anyone any idea what might be causing this? I suspect some dependency > breakage, because these disks played under Mandriva up to last night, when I > did an update. Now they don't. I shall ask on the Mandriva list also, but > it looks to me as though this is a deeper problem that affects both, and > probably all, distros. Same machine in both cases or different, and what is in "dmesg" after trying to play it if anything ?