I found the problem. When upgrading to Dapper, a new user called
haldaemon was created. However it was not part of the cdrom group, and so
couldn't access /dev/cdrom. I solved the problem by typing the command:
adduser haldaemon cdrom
Now it works fine. I still think it's an upgrade bug. The
Public bug reported:
On Ubuntu 6.06 (this used to work on 5.04)
- Insert a CD in the CD drive
- Restart the computer
- Login
- The CD is mounted and shown on the desktop (as expected)
- Right-click on the CD icon on the desktop
- Click 'Eject'
- CD ejects and disappears from the desktop (as
