[lug] DVD driver spits out disk?

[Evelyn Mitchell]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 03:17:49PM -0600, Michael J. Hammel wrote:
> the drive it spins for a bit and then gets spit out.  It looks like
> something is trying to mount it or access it for some reason.  I disabled
> automount - it was running, but I commented out the CDROM line in
> /etc/auto.misc and restarted the automount daemon using
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs.  Still, the drive keeps spinning the DVD and then
> spitting it out.  

Are you running nautilus and gnome?
There's a configuration to turn off automount in nautilus:
  Gnomefoot: Programs: Settings: Desktop: CD Properties
Turn off "Automatically mount CD when inserted".

I'm guessing the automount of the dvd is failing.

Evelyn Mitchell
efm at tummy.com