dvd are not mounted automatically in ubuntu 11.04 unity

[Juan R. de Silva]

Binary package hint: udev

Ubuntu 11.04 is installed on Dell Latitude d820 with Nvidia Geforce 7300 graphic card. Unity is forced by adding a required line to /etc/environment file and runs fine. The system is multi boot with Lucid, Fedora 15, Xubuntu, and Kubuntu on it. With all other systems but Unity, dvd drive (see info below) works just fine, that is both cd's and dvd's are loaded automatically as expected.

In Unity:

1. usb drives and cd-rom's are mounted automatically when inserted as expected.

2. dvd's (neither data nor video) are mounted automatically, but can be mounted unto a specified point (e.g. /medea/cdrom0 directory, if created) manually.

below is `lshw | grep cdrom` output

           *-cdrom
                description: DVD writer
                product: DVD+-RW DW-Q58A
                vendor: SONY
                physical id: 1
                bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
                logical name: /dev/cdrom
                logical name: /dev/cdrw
                logical name: /dev/dvd
                logical name: /dev/dvdrw
                logical name: /dev/scd0
                logical name: /dev/sr0
                version: UDS2
                capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r
                configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc

[Juan R. de Silva (juan-r-d-silva)]

Right after submitting the bug I found additional details making my initial report rather inaccurate. Sorry about it.

Here what exactly happens.

1. If USB drive is attached or any CD is inserted in CD/DVD-ROM drive, a corresponding icon appears in Launcher, Nautilus pops up and shows content of either USB drive or CD.

2. If data or video DVD is inserted in CD/DVD-ROM drive, no icon appears in Launcher, and Nautilus does not show up.

- If then Nautilus is opened manually, but its Side Pain is set to Tree view (and this is how it is set in my case by default), DVD icon does not show up in Nautilus either.

- Only if I change Side Pain to Places view, then I finally can find the DVD icon shown there, and I can load DVD by clicking on it instead of mounting it via CLI in terminal.

- As soon as DVD is mounted as described above, its icon appears in Launcher and the icon is shown in Nautilus even if I switch back to Tree view in Side Pane.

So, there is obvious inconsistency in Unity behavior loading CD and DVD or USB drives.

P.S And BTW, another thing to note here. In all 3 cases: USB drive, CD, or DVD, as soon as they are mounted their corresponding icons appear in Launcher and on Desktop as well. Such double appearance seems to be slightly excessive. If the icon of a removable media shows up in Launcher it should not show up on Desktop.