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Problems with cdrom on Ubuntu 10.10

Asked by Joe Reed

Was running 10.04 just fine. Downloaded and installed 10.10 and have been having issues with my cdrom ever since. Get an error stating "Unable to mount cdrom0 mount: special device dev/scd0 does not exist"

I have read through many of the postings on this forum but cannot find an answer that works for me. I've made changes to the /etc/fstab but still no luck..

BTW, it is a Dell Optiplex GX260 desktop and I have two DVD/CDRW drives installed. Neither are working.

Any help would be much appreciated.

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#1

Try adding CD to repository.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu#Download%20Server
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu#CD-ROM/DVD

Please insert CD, open a terminal and type:
mount

Post output here.

Or try this.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MaverickUpgrades#Upgrading%20Using%20the%20Alternate%20CD/DVD

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Joe Reed (joedreed) said : 		#2

Here is the output from the mount command:

joe@joe-OptiPlex-GX260:~$ mount
/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro,commit=0)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
none on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/joe/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=joe)
joe@joe-OptiPlex-GX260:~$

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#3

Verify user groups via CLI.
groups

## Output should be at least something like this.
user_name adm dialout cdrom plugdev lpadmin admin sambashare

Test comment #23
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=5721642775a9b621c6621fc1261140f3&t=1487867&page=3

Also exclude hardware failure.

Reference.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Mount

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