Hi all. Coming up blank on searches for this problem.

I upgraded from 10.1 Official to 2006 Free a couple of days ago and there has been a persistent problem with the cdrom drive. Actually, it's a cd/dvd rw, but the issue seems to be with cds.

First noticed when logging into Gnome. The splash screen hangs at the CD stage, which I assume is initialization. Sits there for perhaps as long as 3 minutes before it disappears.

Logging into KDE, the splash screen hurries on by as normal. But afterward, I receive the message "CDROM read or access error (or no audio disc in the drive). Please make sure you have access permissions to: /dev/cdrom". This same error pops up attempting to use kscd in Gnome, too.

Further, audio CDs will not play using KSCD or the gnome cd player. Data discs still work, and DVDs still work.

Relevant line from fstab:
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,noauto,ro 0 0

Permissions were different on /dev/hdc and /mnt/cdrom, so I changed them to match (all read, write, exec). Still no change.

Perhaps relevant: While rebuilding after a recent frag, my permissions were all screwy. Everything ended up having root-only permsissions. To "fix" this, I just changed the users' home directories recursively to their permission level and left all other files unchanged. Not sure where else to check to see if this might be my problem, though.

And, since I didn't mention it earlier, yes, everything did work fine under 10.1, so it seems to be upgrade-related.

Any help is appreciated.

I won't be all too negative, but Mandriva 2006 seems to be a 'somewhat' problematic release.
I read in another forum, that the first CD ISO images posted on the net of the Download Edition was buggy.
The DVD edition seemed to work well out of the box on my laptop, except for some minor errors.


One of the bugs in KDE is caused by Kat, the desktop search application. Most problems dissapear by simply removing it. It's not Mandriva's problem, but kat's... except that nobody includes kat in their stable releases except Mandriva.

As I was aware of this, I removed Kat shortly after install.

There are however another issues, as the Xorg version included is a beta one and thus not sufficiently tested.

There are many people that just switched back to Mandriva 10.1.