Bugzilla – Bug 446563
KDE4 does not mount optical media automatically
Last modified: 2008-11-19 13:55:41 UTC
I have KDE4 version of openSUSE 11.1 Beta5 (although I chosen to install KDE 3.5). If I insert an optical medium (either the installation DVD or Addon CD) into the drive it is not mounted automatically. Also, if the system asks for one of the media and I insert it and click "Retry", it again asks for the same. I press "Retry" again and again but it does not work. Simply it does not mount the medium. If I mount the medium manually then it works so there is no problem with the medium itself or with the drive. It also works if I boot other linux OS on the same machine.
In which application do you click "Retry"?
In Software Manager. The problem persists also when I reboot the machine. The user under which I am working has no administration privileges. (I like when only the root user can administer.) However the root login into graphical KDE session is forbidden (and I do not know how to allow for it). Anyway I think that, since after starting Software Manager the system asks for the root password and gets it, working with the media should be possible. (It always was on older versions of openSUSE.) I mention a specific of my installation, although it most likely has nothing to do with the mount problem: I used also the Addon-Lang CD. (It however did not work properly, see my report 446494 ). Another thing: after inserting an optical medium into the drive, I can hear the sound of engine as usually, meaning that on hardware level the presence of the medium is noticed.
Almost certainly a dupe. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 444913 ***