Jason Wies wrote: > The problem was that the /cdrom symlink was broken. The other problem > was that I was not presented with any indication that there was an > error, only returned to the same screen. I was able to read the > /cdrom symlink error message when it flashed at the bottom of the > screen for a split second, but that's not good enough. > > About the symlink: > > "mount: /cdrom is a symbolic link to nowhere" > > /cdrom -> media/cdrom > /media/cdrom -> cdrom0 > > 'find /dev -name cdrom0' yielded no results. This would be thanks to the discover1 cdrom mount point deletion bug, fixed in unstable. I don't know if I really want to add code to base-config to specifically notice that /cdrom is a dangling symlink and warn the user about it. Aside from stupid discover breakage, it's too much of an edge case to seem worth the bother. -- see shy jo
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