Mounting DVDs

[Master of Reality]

Is there something i should know about Fedora Core 6 and mounting DVDs?

I burned a couple data dvds using K3B, but when i try to mount them in Fedora it says:

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mount: block device /dev/dvd is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/dvd,
       missing codepage or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

I can mount the same DVD in Debian on my laptop no problem, so there must be something special about Fedora that im missing.

[Void Main]

There's nothing special that I am aware of. It's always worked for me without having to tweak anything. Did you do the "dmesg | tail" after trying to mount to see if there are other errors?

[Master of Reality]

theres a bug for it at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/sh ... ?id=212640

There was one person in the comments that had a potential fix using a haldaemon policy, but it didnt work.

Looks like it only affects some DVD drives. I didnt really see a pattern of complaint, but there are comflicting posts at fedoraforum or in bug comments that say "this is only affecting {DVD-RW/CDRW,DVD-ROM,DVD-RW,DVD-ROM/CD-ROM}" by several people.

Perhaps it's time to install Debian on my desktop.

[Void Main]

Hmmm, maybe so. Either that or throw a different drive inthere. Looks like there was varying levels of success on fixing it by the people in that bugzilla report.

[Master of Reality]

It seems to work now, although it did not work immediately after restarting hald with the fix policy in place.

I still may switch to Debian or Ubuntu.

[Void Main]

Nothing wrong with any of those 3 choices.