Re: [Solved... but I still wonder what happened] DVD doesn't play

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Le 25/03/2010 23:01, Marcel Rieux a écrit :

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> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 3:28 AM, François Patte
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>     Le 25/03/2010 06:39, Marcel Rieux a écrit :
>     > Since nobody seemed to report a problem playing DVDs, I decided to
>     check
>     > my settings.
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>     > Smplayer and Gmplayer were both set to play DVDs from /dev/dvd
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>     > I checked and there was no /dev/dvd. So, I did:
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>     > ls -l /dev/dvd*
>     > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 3 2010-03-24 12:52 /dev/dvd1 -> sr0
>     > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 3 2010-03-24 12:52 /dev/dvdrw1 -> sr0
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>     Is it still there after reboot?
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> Absolutely. Since I have no access to BIOS settings to put the computer
> to sleep, I reboot every day. And there's not a trace of /dev/dvd , only
> /dev/dvd1 and /dev/dvdrw1, which are both links to /dev/sr0.
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> When you don't have problems, it's not the kind of settings you check
> closely but, since my dvd players were pointing to /dev/dvd, I would
> think this is the normal setting.
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> I believe the devices are created at boot time, no? And I even have no
> idea how I could prevent /dev/dvd form being created.

Yes, they are created by udev. I had the same problem as yours but my
description of the problem was slightly different from yours: links
/dev/dvd to /dev/sr0 were created at boot time but erased as soon as I
put a cd|dvd in the drive. So I could use the drive only once!


The missing file was: /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules