Comment 39 for bug 365881

I posted an answer on 6/10/09 stating that when I put a blank CD in my 2nd DVD drive I did not get the exception error message. On trying to duplicate this, I again got an error message when putting the Ubuntu Live CD in disc drive 1, even though had put a disk in my 2nd drive. So I pulled the USB connection cable from my HP Photosmart D7160 printer which contains a card reader, essentially disconnecting my printer (with a card reader) from my computer; put the Ubuntu CD in my disc drive and no error message. So simply disconnecting my printer’s USB cable solved the problem for me. I tried this several times and no error message.

So in my case at least, it appears to be the card reader on my printer causing the problem. I must have had my printer disconnected (because I was trying everything I could think of) when I put the blank CD in my drive and erroneously thought I had solved the problem at that time by inserting the blank CD in my empty disc drive.

I am sorry for the confusion, but glad I have isolated the problem at least on my computer. I hope this might work for some of the others having this problem.