Fedora 11 snapshot 1 live CD destroys its CD-RW boot media

[Robert Nichols]

Robert Nichols wrote:
> Robert Nichols wrote:
>> I burned Fedora 11 snapshot 1 to a CD-RW and tried it in my Lenovo 3000
>> N200 laptop.  Nice to see the Plymouth graphic, but there the niceness
>> ends.  Screen goes blank and the system becomes totally unresponsive.
>> Only recourse is a hard power-off.  I then find that the CD-RW has
>> become unreadable even in the machine that wrote it.  The hard drive in
>> the laptop is, fortunately, still intact.
> 
> I've been able to confirm the media overwriting in another machine with
> completely different hardware (Compaq EVO D510 desktop).  That machine
> actually boots and runs from the CD-RW, but sector 0 on the CD-RW can
> never be read again until the disk is erased and rewritten.
> 
> If no one can suggest a component to write a bug report against, I'll
> just have to make a wild guess and blame _something_, probably hal.

I think I have a smoking gun against DeviceKit.  If I boot the current
rawhide (not the live CD) and insert a CD-RW that currently holds a
file system, the file system gets mounted read/write!

   /dev/sr0 on /media/Fedora-11-Snap1-i686-Live type iso9660 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=devkit,...)

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