Comment 19 for bug 114816

I think the issue is that DVD's are not mounted, once that is
resolved, we can see if they actually play.

Comment out the 2 lines for the DVD/CD drives:

# /dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
# /dev/hdc /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0

On 7/1/07, ROY GAVILAN wrote:
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> Alan, I know a DVD is supposed to play automatically. Since it didn't play
> auto, I tried it manually. Here is a listing of my /etc/fstab file :
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> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> # /dev/hda1
> UUID=f38d3647-dccd-4765-a373-d0106e380dfc /
> ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
> # /dev/hda5
> UUID=782888eb-631c-422a-9148-fb4c8ab9fb6f none
> swap sw 0 0
> /dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
> /dev/hdc /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
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> I completely reloaded Feisty after I posted my bug because I couln't get a
> new video card to work. After a fresh install, I still had the same no play
> DVD problem. Above is the printout of my new fstab file. What do you want
> me to comment out??
> Thanks, RG
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> On my system the DVD auto mounts and then tries to auto-play using
> Totem. I do not need to open it from the application, it is all
> automatic. (I then get a permission error, but that is different
> problem, with a different workaround.)
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> I also do not have any entries in /etc/fstab for the dvd/cdrom drives
> ( never mind floppy, what year is it ;-) ) The disks still mount using
> the magic of pmount, which should be standard on recent versions of
> Ubuntu. What happens if you comment out those fstab entries?