KDE 4.11 on RHEL6 - Optical disks not recognised

[Syam Krishnan]

On 02/26/2014 07:44 PM, Rex Dieter wrote:
> On 02/26/2014 03:02 AM, Syam wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm using KDE 4.11 (4.11.2, if I remember correctly) build from
>> Fedora-KDE-SIG (thanks) for RHEL6. After a fresh installation, I am
>> finding that optical disks are not recognised by KDE.
>>
>
>
> That should be handled by hal on rhel6, does
>
> /etc/kde/env/SOLID_HAL_LEGACY.sh
> exist on your box?
Yes

>
> Does this do the same for you?
> $ echo $SOLID_HAL_LEGACY
> 1
Yes
>
> Is the hal service running?
> $ service haldaemon status
> hald (pid XXX) is running...
Yes


I tried it in a VM too and have the same problem. Actually, I have two 
VMs. The first one was a vanilla installation of RHEL6 (x86) which was 
used to build packages and install packages from EPEL & KDE repos. I 
then collected these RPMs from yum's cache and created a customized DVD 
image. Then I used this custom image for installing on a second VM (as 
well as a physical machine).

In the first VM, KDE has no problem detecting CDs. But in the second VM 
as well as the physical machine, CDs are not detected.

Thanks,

Syam