apt problem/broken? with finding the 8.04 hardy amd 64 dvd after installation

[heinkel_111]

I just upgraded to 8.04. On my list of worries, which includes a broken X due to nvidia driver installation failure, I have now found something that worries me: the apt system is unable to work with my downloaded kubuntu 8.04 disk after installation.

This happens because apt expects the dvd to be located at /cdrom which is a link to media/cdrom. (I am not sure if it is a problem that there is no leading / in media/cdrom in that link).

However, 8.04 does not mount DVDs to that location - it mounts the DVD at /media/"Volume name". (And, by the way, my DVD player is at media > scd0 according to dolphin.)

Is there a mix-up between all these various ways of mounting a DVD, the /media and media:/ ? I always thought this was one of the more confusing aspects of kubuntu, and now it looks to me like the developers have pretty much proven my case, unless I am wrong again.

Below is some stuff copied from my konsole session to show this more precisely:

myuser@mymachine:~$ ls -ltrhap /cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2007-11-15 17:41 /cdrom -> media/cdrom/
myuser@mymachine:~$ ls /media/
cdrom cdrom0 Kubuntu 8.04 amd64 sda1 sda4 sdb1 sdb2 sdb5
myuser@mymachine:~$ ls /media/cdrom
myuser@mymachine:~$ ls /media/Kubuntu\ 8.04\ amd64/
autorun.inf  dists  isolinux  pool        ubuntu
casper    doc   md5sum.txt preseed       umenu.exe
cdromupgrade install pics    README.diskdefines

Am I right? Maybe this should be filed as a bug report?
PS: my workaround for now = disable the cdrom repository but the whole point of downloading the DVD is to have possiblity to do installations offline...

[dibl]

Re: apt problem/broken? with finding the 8.04 hardy amd 64 dvd after installation

Is your optical drive a CD/DVD combination? If so, then it should not matter about the "/dev/scd0" vs "/media/VolumeName" vs "/media/cdrom" thing. Whatever it says in /etc/fstab is what is mounted by the OS.

Did you have the CD/DVD source enabled in 7.10? You say you upgraded -- I think that's a different path than if you installed 8.04 from the CD or DVD. When you install it, it sets the CD or DVD as a repository for apt. But not if you upgrade, I think.

[heinkel_111]

Re: apt problem/broken? with finding the 8.04 hardy amd 64 dvd after installation

Yes, my optical does CD, DVD, read, write, all of that! (It is pretty clever! )

The relevant line in /etc/fstab I guess would be this:

/dev/hda    /media/cdrom0  udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0    0

When running kubuntu and I insert a DVD into my drive, nothing happens, but in media view in dolphin I can see it as unmounted. When I click on the unmounted DVD icon, it mounts and according to /etc/mtab the adress it receives is.

/dev/scd0 /media/Kubuntu\0408.04\040amd64 iso9660 ro,nosuid,nodev,noatime,uhelper=hal,uid=1000,utf8 0 0

It seems like in the upgrading, /etc/fstab did not update the name

I did have DVD source for 7.10 yes, and I upgraded.
Is it possible that the upgrading process overlooked that the for /etc/fstab that the CD DVD player writer is no longer mounted as /dev/hda, but now goes under the name of /dev/scd0?

I am still pondering if this should be a bug report or not.