Re: Problems with CD insertion - sid

[Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz>]

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 07:55:51AM +0200, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> When a CD is inserted, it does not get mounted (data CD) or properly
> notified (audio CD).
> 
> I found that rhythmbox never showed an audio CD as available to play -
> it should come up under devices on the left-hand sidebar.
> 
> I then tried setting the system to run VLC instead, using System
> Settings.  Still nothing happens when a CD is inserted. (But VLC can
> play the CD if directed to.)
> 
> I found that a data CD is not mounted when it is inserted; I had to
> mount it manually.
> 
> The Debian version is sid - up-to-date.
> 
> I don't know where the problem resides.  Which package should I be
> looking at?

For a start:

Does "eject -T" open/close the drive?

Any error messages in /var/log/syslog?

Does "udevadm trigger" help?


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