10.04 will mount CDROM but not DVD

[GlennW]

Since a fresh install of 10.04, I've got an issue with not being able to mount my dvd. The cd mounts just fine. Blueridgedog gave me some handy tips, which included the code below, making sure that I have libdvdcss2.

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list 
sudo apt-get -q update
sudo apt-get --yes -q --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring
sudo apt-get -q update
sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2

It appears that quite a few people have a similar if not the same problem.

I would greatly appreciate if any of you could help out.

Thanks.

[drhiii]

I am having similar problems after upgrading to 10.4. CDs and DVDs, blanks, data, media, everything was read and responded beautifully.

10.4 upgrade went wonderfully, except for this issue. Nothing works now.

When I boot into vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic kernel, nothing works. All of USB permissions disappeared too, and resetting them in /etc/fstab kind of has 1/2 of the devices writable again.

When I boot into vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic, with a DVD in the drive, it will read it for a few minutes, but after reading a little data off the DVD, it then disappears.

Am perplexed. I am wanting to reinstall everything fresh, but I am not confident it will fix the problem. The hardware has run flawlessly through 4 versions of Ubuntu, so I am not having an issue there. Have tried to find any solutions and studied bug reports. Still no joy.

Ideas anyone? I know others have had CD/DVD issues after this upgrade too.

[GlennW]

BUMP!

There's got to be someone who has the answer to this. I find it hard to believe that 10.04 (the best yet, by far!) should be abandoned due to something this simple. C'mon...

[drhiii]

I am such a great proponent of the Ubuntu series, and I do not mind the issues that crop up during upgrades, but admit that the last three upgrades have worn me down a bit. The loss of my ability to read/write to external devices, and the total loss of being able to see any CD/DVD in my drive when this has been working for the last 3 years... is indeed wearing me down.

Am backing everything up to install from fresh, 10.4. And if that fails, it's back to 9.10. Admit to being slightly bummed...

[jamesisin]

I've never had very good luck performing operating system upgrades (regardless of the OS). I have long been in the habit of doing clean installations for new versions.

[drhiii]

jamesisin, you are probably right. I'd had good fortune usually, but the last three have not been so friendly. Am likely to adopt your policy of fresh installs on desktops going forward...

[jamesisin]

I do IT support for a living. I've done Mac, Windows, and Linux upgrades and prefer just doing a fresh installation. Even when the upgrade process does go well, it's cleaner to have that fresh install anyway.

[wojox]

sudo apt-get install libdvdread4

sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh

[ankspo71]

I have this problem too. Here is a bug report I am watching: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ev/+bug/562092

In my case, it is a problem with my internal dvd burner drives failing to mount. They work under windows and PClinuxOS, and as a boot device, but not within a normal Ubuntu session. This does not effect my usb mounted external dvd burner though.

[drhiii]

I have given up. After a couple of weeks trying to get 10.4 to work, I have to revert back to 9.10.

I have tried the default install disk for 386 machines, the alternative disk, installing into 9.10 and upgrading to 10.4, the werks. I get various failures from grub fails to load, DVD fails to mount if I can get the system to run 10.4, and a slew of problems inbetween. Too many to list.

After flawless performance going back 3 years and upgrades, 9.10 was messy, but 10.4 just fell apart in my hands. Sorry to say it, and I know this is not at all easy stuff to manage, but Ubuntu has gone from a fantastic experience to become a worse and worse experience. I am going back to 9.10 and may have to consider going to a different build because this has become pretty untenable. I never thought I would say that... but 10.4, after prior version running so well, is not at all pretty.

Big sigh. Ubuntu is on the cusp of losing a big fan.