DVD drive not mounting

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OpenSUSE is not automatically mounting media inserted into my Pioneer 216D DVD burner. Also, K3B detects my drive (as /dev/sr0) but not any media inserted into it - it always reports ‘no medium present.’

The drive was working perfectly under Ubuntu so this is not a hardware fault.

There was no entry in /etc/fstab for my DVD drive so I added the following line and rebooted:

/dev/sr0 /media/dvd udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0

However, this did not solve the problem at all. I’m out of ideas, so I would greatly appreciate some opinions on this.

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Try this: Yast > Security and Users > User and Group Management > Users > Edit > Details: add ‘cdrom’ and ‘disk’ groups to your user account. You may need to restart your system.

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Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, it didn’t seem to fix my problem. Any other ideas?

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I’m in the same boat. My DVD drive worked after the initial install and several reboots. I even had a video loaded, I paused it, came back an hour or so later with no system response. I rebooted, no affect. I’ve added the permissions to my profile, still nothing.

IBM T61 Thinkpad DVD RW

Still looking for a solution.

Thanks in advance.

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Take a look at this blog. It has additional suggestions:
Solved : K3b Problem with Normal User on openSUSE 11.1 | Spirit of Change