nautilus "rescan" of removable media fails

[Alex Mauer]

When right-clicking on my CD-ROM drive inthe "Places" sidebar of Nautilus and choosing "rescan", I get the following error:

Unable to poll CD-RW/DVD-ROM Drive for media changes

Cannot invoke CheckForMedia on HAL: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method "CheckForMedia" with signature "" on interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.Removable" doesn't exist

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.

[Alex Mauer (hawke)]

That's a totally unrelated bug. That one doesn't even mention the manual "rescan" option of the CD-ROM drive's context menu, nor does it mention the error message which I receive.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue is similar though and likely due the same cause as the other bug you opened, those are not nautilus issue

[Alex Mauer (hawke)]

I really don't think it is. That one seems to be about (automatically) checking for updated drive labels.

This one is not related to changing media.

If it is a duplicate, it's more likely to be of bug #197954, except that one is in relation to floppy drives and merely accessing them rather than hitting rescan.

That would make it a gvfs problem.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

 * Is this reproducible?
 * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

 This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue would rather bug a gnome-mount one, could be that you lack credential or similar

[Alex Mauer (hawke)]

I can no longer reproduce this problem. I'll re-open the bug if I find later that I can.