Am I the only one?

[François Patte]

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Le 28/01/2010 23:27, Aaron Konstam a écrit :
> On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 15:11 +0100, François Patte wrote: 
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>> Bonjour,
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>> I post again my problem: on my f12 install I have a problem with symlink
>> /dev/cdrom, /dev/dvd, /dev/cdrw, /dev/dvdrw which all exist *until I
>> insert a disk in the device*, as soon as the disk is mounted, these
>> links are erased and don't come back untill the next boot.
>>
>> I would like to know if anybody else experienced the same problem and I
>> am searching a clue to solve this problem.
>>
>> I suspect HAL or udev, but don't know how to search.
>>
>> I have a fully updated fedora 12
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>> Thanks for attention.
>>
> What you describe sounds like a udev problem. It is udev that is
> responsible for creating the devices.

Thanks for answering.

udev is responsible for creating, but hal is responsible for
hotplugging.... So....

I tried to use debugging with hal, but I did not see anything suspect (I
can be wrong, because I am not an expert...)


I tried to debug udev too, but this is almost impossible: logs go on
console at boot time, and are unreadable....

> I have no brilliant solution but
> it sounds like for some reason udev decides that those /dev files are
> not needed when confronted with an inserted. Now one question. Are you
> inserting data CDs or music or video CDs? Only data CDs are mounted. Are
> you somehow trying to mount a music CD?


No, I don't try to mount music CD, video DVD are automatically mounted
and it is during this phase that the links are erased.

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François Patte
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Université Paris Descartes
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