[besson3c]

Hello,

Here is a tough one:

CDs and DVDs are not automatically mounting. If I do a "disktool -m disk1" in the terminal, the CD/DVD will mount, but the DVD player won't play DVDs that were mounted this way. The CDs and DVDs are visible within Disk Utility, which means that the hardware is detecting the media, it just won't mount it like it usually does.

I've repaired permissions, haven't run fsck yet. I've recently reinstalled the OS. This is some strange voodoo.

Any ideas?

[CharlesS]

NSString *toolName;

if (floor(NSAppKitVersionNumber) <= NSAppKitVersionNumber10_2)
{
// OS is Jaguar or earlier
toolName = @"autodiskmount";
}
else
{
// OS is Panther or later
toolName = @"diskarbitrationd";
}

NSLog(@"Could you run ps -acx in the Terminal and see if %@ is running?",toolName);

[besson3c]

I found the answer to my problem... if you log in as another user, it will correct the problem - even after logging back in as the original user. Very strange, but effective (especially with Fast User Switching).

What does that code do Charles?

[besson3c]

I found the answer to my problem... if you log in as another user, it will correct the problem - even after logging back in as the original user. Very strange, but effective (especially with Fast User Switching).

What does that code do Charles?

[CharlesS]

Originally posted by besson3c:
What does that code do Charles?

It asks you if you could fire up the Terminal and see if a certain process is running when this problem occurs, and post the results in here, so I could see if the problem is due to one possible cause. Unfortunately, the name of the process to check for is different depending on whether you're running Panther or not, so I decided to phrase the question in Objective-C. C'mon, it's not that hard to figure out. I even left comments to make it easy.

Basically, it was just my attempt to find a 'cute' way to ask you whether you could check if diskarbitrationd (in Panther) or autodiskmount (earlier OS's) was running. Guess I should have just worded it in plain English... sorry about that.

[besson3c]

Originally posted by CharlesS:
It asks you if you could fire up the Terminal and see if a certain process is running when this problem occurs, and post the results in here, so I could see if the problem is due to one possible cause. Unfortunately, the name of the process to check for is different depending on whether you're running Panther or not, so I decided to phrase the question in Objective-C. C'mon, it's not that hard to figure out. I even left comments to make it easy.

Basically, it was just my attempt to find a 'cute' way to ask you whether you could check if diskarbitrationd (in Panther) or autodiskmount (earlier OS's) was running. Guess I should have just worded it in plain English... sorry about that.

You caught me at the wrong time I guess... I'm not smart sometimes.

[Cadaver]

Sounds suspiciously like my problem...
http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...hreadid=202186