gnome-mount crashes when data DVD inserted

[Ric Moore]

On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 16:25 +1000, Brian Chadwick wrote:
> Hi ll
> 
> I have this problem where when I insert a data dvd into my dvd-rom, 
> gnome-mount crashes and reports an "unexpected error." (By the way .. 
> using FC5). Inserting a data CD instead, works as expected... its only 
> data DVD's. (all in the same DVD-ROM)
> 
> I have logged a bug report with fedora.redhat but nothing seems to have 
> been done with it ...
> 
> So I am wondering...do some of you out there have no problem when data 
> dvd's are mounted by gnome-mount, or do you all experience the problem 
> ... i am wondering whether this is somehow to do with hardware.
> 
> Interestuingly, manually mounting the dvd using "mount -t iso9660 
> /dev........" etc works perfectly ... so its sseem something to do with 
> gnome's hardware abstraction layer, gnome-vfs or gnome-mount.
> 
> Further, the gnome-live-disk works flawlessly also ... so its clearly 
> something to do with fedora's implementation, since the orginial gnome 
> is ok with it ... also ubuntu works fine too.
> 
> Any feedback please?
> 
> Cheers and Beers

Is it perhaps on an SATA controller?? Using the mount command are you
using something like mount -t iso9660 /dev/sda2 /media/name and does it
work? If so, is your system calling it /dev/hda2?? instead and then it
craps out with a can't locate device error? That's been my rant and
problem. 

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