I just installed Fedora 11. So far so good for the most part, except for one thing that is really bugging me.

My CD drive always appears mounted on my desktop. I have no idea why. I checked my fstab and mtab and everything appears find there. Some things of notes:

• If I double click on the icon when the drive is empty then it opens an empty folder for burning a CD.
• If I right click on the icon and click unmount nothing appears to happen.
• If I open the drive the tray automatically goes back in as soon as its finished coming out.
• If I manage to get a disk into the tray then when the tray goes back in (on it's own of course) then it doesn't actually mount the new disk but the description under the icon will change.

Any ideas?? This one really perplexes me!

It is possible that the device icon is showing an empty CD drive so fstab and mtab would not show any mounted disk in the device.

If you are using the KDE Desktop Environment then you can use kcontrol to configure what devices are displayed on your desktop. I don't know about Gnome.

kcontrol instructions:

Open a terminal window.
Start kcontrol.
Click Desktop -> Behavior.
Click on the Device Icons tab.
Uncheck the devices that you don't want to have displayed on your desktop.
Click the Apply button at the bottom of the Window.
Close kcontrol.

I'm not using KDE.

I do think it's actually mounted the drive though. It gives every indication that is. It's even in "My Computer"

On second thought though, if I open a folder for burning. It will attempt to burn to nothing and leave a .iso file in my home directory? Perhaps this a program setting somewhere??

But then again, maybe it's more fubar than I thought. Stupid computers.

If you just want the icon off your desktop, then use gconf, and under Apps/Nautilus/Desktop uncheck "Show mounted drives" (I don't remember exactly where in gconf it is, but its somewhere under Nautilus)

Of course, that doesn't fix the problem with your drive. Just to rule it out, check the output of dmesg to make sure its not the kernel that thinks something is mounted.