[CentOS] CD-Mount on CentOS-6.7

Wed Jan 27 14:31:58 UTC 2016
James B. Byrne <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca>

When I load a blank cd into the optical drive on my CentOS-6.7
workstation I am not getting any window or visible mount action on my
Gnome desktop.  Formerly, when I mounted a writeable media in this
drive on this host I would see a nautilus style file browser window
open with inducements to add files.

When I visit /mnt I see nothing:

ll /mnt
  total 0

My fstab does not seem to have much to say either:

cat /etc/fstab

#
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Mon Sep 24 12:57:28 2012
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more
info
#
/dev/mapper/vg_vhost04-lv_root /                       ext4   
defaults        1 1
UUID=a9a7cc59-bd0c-4362-9ab6-f721e25df2f8 /boot                   ext4
   defaults        1 2
/dev/mapper/vg_vhost04-lv_home /home                   ext4   
defaults        1 2
/dev/mapper/vg_vhost04-lv_tmp /tmp                    ext4    defaults
       1 2
/dev/mapper/vg_vhost04-lv_log /var/log                ext4    defaults
       1 2
/dev/mapper/vg_vhost04-lv_spool /var/spool              ext4   
defaults        1 2
/dev/mapper/vg_vhost04-lv_swap swap                    swap   
defaults        0 0
tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults      
 0 0
devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620
 0 0
sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults      
 0 0
proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults      
 0 0
/dev/vg_vhost04/lv_data_disk_images	/var/data/disk_images	ext4	defaults	00
/dev/vg_vhost04/lv_home_byrnejb	/home/byrnejb	ext4	defaults	0	0
/dev/vg_vhost04/lv_var	/var_new	ext3	defaults	0	0


The hardware seems to be there:

lshw
  . . .
           *-cdrom
                description: DVD-RAM writer
                product: DVD-RAM GH22NS30
                vendor: HL-DT-ST
                physical id: 1
                bus info: scsi at 3:0.0.0
                logical name: /dev/cdrom
                logical name: /dev/cdrw
                logical name: /dev/dvd
                logical name: /dev/dvdrw
                logical name: /dev/scd0
                logical name: /dev/sr0
                version: 1.01
                capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r
dvd-ram
                configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc
        *-serial UNCLAIMED
             description: SMBus
             product: 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1f.3
             bus info: pci at 0000:00:1f.3
             version: 00
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             configuration: latency=0
             resources: memory:d0825800-d08258ff ioport:1180(size=32)
. . .

Now, I have not played with any of this stuff in quite some time and I
used it late last year to cut CentOS-7 ISOs.  So my question is: What
has changed to cause this behaviour?  Any ideas?


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