Hoary: No CD/DVD symlinks althoug set in udev config

[Mario Vukelic]

I have set up udev to create symlinks

mario@phonic: ~ $ cat /etc/udev/cdsymlinks.conf
# Configuration file for cdsymlinks

# Output links for these types of devices.
# Allowed keywords are CD, CDR, CDRW, DVD, DVDRW, DVDRAM, CDMRW, CDWMRW.
# Other words are accepted but ignored.
#OUTPUT="CD CDRW DVD DVDRW DVDRAM"
OUTPUT="CD DVD"

# Whether to output numbered links.
# 1 = output 'cdrom1', 'dvd1' etc. for other devices
# 0 = don't output 'cdrom1', 'dvd1' etc.
# We always output 'cdrom', 'dvd' etc. for the best-match devices.
#NUMBERED_LINKS=1
mario@phonic: ~ $

However, udev does not create the links on bootup.

mario@phonic: ~ $ ls /dev/cd*
ls: /dev/cd*: No such file or directory
mario@phonic: ~ $ ls /dev/dvd*
ls: /dev/dvd*: No such file or directory
mario@phonic: ~ $

[Duncan Sands (baldrick-free)]

In /etc/udev/rules.d, create a symlink to ../cd-aliases.rules. I have no idea why
something like this is not done by default.

[Mario Vukelic (kreuzsakra)]

Thanks for the suggestion. I agree, if this is needed to have the cdrom links
created, then it should be there by default

[Jeff Bailey (jbailey)]

Is this an upgrade from warty? If yes, the note about this is already in the
release notes. New Hoary installs should already do this, although Warty did not.

Tks,
Jeff Bailey

[Mario Vukelic (kreuzsakra)]

Sorry, forgot to mention it: sidegraded from Sid

[Jeff Bailey (jbailey)]

We try to preserve configs as much as possible, and unfortunately, that means
that we can't just add this symlink. We'll have to rely on the release notes
for now to take care of this.

I'm closing this bug now, please reopen it if you have further problems.

Tks,
Jeff Bailey

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 12491.