Clarifying the above. In my case it seems that my /dev/dvd is not mapped (logical name) to cdrom. I suspect that is why this is happening. If this is the problem, how do I fix it? As well, is this a hardware problem?
sudo lshw -c disk *-cdrom description: DVD-RAM writer product: CD/DVDW TS-H652D vendor: TSSTcorp physical id: 0.0.0 bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0 logical name: /dev/cdrom logical name: /dev/sr0 logical name: /media/myusername/DVDVIDEO version: GA01 capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram configuration: ansiversion=5 mount.fstype=udf mount.options=ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=77,iocharset=utf8 state=mounted status=ready *-medium physical id: 0 logical name: /dev/cdrom logical name: /media/pch/DVDVIDEO configuration: mount.fstype=udf mount.options=ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=77,iocharset=utf8 state=mounted -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/926976 Title: udev does not create the proper symlinks to /dev/dvd due to the wrong : ENV{ID_PATH} in70-persistent-cd.rules To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/926976/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs