fedora 7 on laptop no longer burns CDs or DVDs

Frank DiPrete fdiprete at comcast.net
Wed Sep 12 19:06:37 EDT 2007


On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 09:08 -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
> On 9/11/07, Lloyd Kvam <python at venix.com> wrote:
> > I recently upgraded my laptop from fedora 6 to fedora 7.  Now I've
> > discovered I can no longer burn CDs or DVDs.
> 
>   In the past, I've had trouble with those auto-media-detect-and-mount
> daemons trying to auto-mount a disc as I'm trying to write to it.  I
> suspect you might be having the same problem, because of this in your
> wodim output:
> 
> Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively (Device or resource
> busy)... retrying in 1 second.
> 
>   Since I hate those auto-thingies anyway, I just killed them off, and
> renamed the binary to keep them from starting again.  (Removing the
> package often isn't a good idea because the package may also provide a
> library other programs link against.)
> 
> I remember the GNOME auto-thingy was called "MagicDev" at one time.  I
> don't remember the name of the KDE auto-thingy, and I don't know if
> either of those might be using a new auto-thingy by now.  (As of late,
> I'm running FVWM, which doesn't start auto-thingies by default anyway,
> so I don't have recent experience.)
> 
> -- Ben


gnome has a setting to turn off auto mountng media on insert.

System, Prefs, Removable Drives and Media.
The default is checked/on.
After removing the options the behavior stops.

-- Another hater of auto thingies ;)



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