Please consider applying this patch for all the /media/cdrom bugs. More keep coming in every day, I've added this to my release blockers for rc1 list and would prefer to see it fixed by tc1. As bast I can tell, the bug occurs when discover does not detect that a device is a CD (or fails to detect the device, I don't know which), and yet the CD is in fact usable by the kernel. I don't think we need this automangling of mount points at all in Debian. Maybe it was right for progeny, but not for us. -- see shy jo
diff -ur old/discover1-1.6.6/debian/changelog discover1-1.6.6/debian/changelog --- old/discover1-1.6.6/debian/changelog 2004-09-04 22:34:34.000000000 -0400 +++ discover1-1.6.6/debian/changelog 2004-09-28 09:38:55.000000000 -0400 @@ -1,3 +1,13 @@ +discover1 (1.6.6.1) unstable; urgency=HIGH + + * Joey Hess + - Default discover/manage_cdrom_devices to false; do not try to manage + cdrom mount points as this breaks systems installed by d-i if discover + does not for whatever reason detect the CD. + Closes: #255103, #268255, #270290, #270674, #273824 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 2004 09:27:13 -0400 + discover1 (1.6.6) unstable; urgency=high * Translations diff -ur old/discover1-1.6.6/debian/discover1.templates discover1-1.6.6/debian/discover1.templates --- old/discover1-1.6.6/debian/discover1.templates 2004-05-04 08:16:58.000000000 -0400 +++ discover1-1.6.6/debian/discover1.templates 2004-09-28 09:27:01.000000000 -0400 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Template: discover/manage_cdrom_devices Type: boolean -Default: true +Default: false _Description: Manage CD-ROM devices and mount points with discover? The "discover" program can automatically manage the /dev/cdrom* symbolic links and device mount points, if you desire. The available CD-ROM (and
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