[Aptitude-devel] Bug#709432: aptitude not able to mount cdrom in hurd

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

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Hi again,

2015-09-08 23:53 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo:
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>Hi Praveen,
>
>2013-05-23 11:13 Praveen A:
>>package: aptitude
>>severity: important
>>
>>when cdrom is disconnected at boot time and reconnected after system
>>is booted, aptitude cannot mount the cdrom when trying to install
>>software from it.
>>
>>If the cdrom is connected during boot, aptitude can mount and install it.
>>
>>During boot time I get a message hd2 "tray is open or drive not ready"
>>
>>Environment is virtualbox. Probably aptitude is not the best place to
>>file this bug. But don't know which other component to file it.
>
>Sorry, but it's been a decade or so since I tested the Hurd for a short
>period of time, and I am not familiar at all with problems like this.
>
>In fact, I think that I never relied on aptitude and CDs in any Debian
>system for more than a decade either.
>
>We are going to have more clues or extra help from somebody if this bug
>is to be addressed.

This doesn't seem to be a bug in aptitude, since it doesn't deal with
hardware drives at all, and the different methods to install (http,
cdrom, etc) come from apt.

After 3 years open, since nobody is working on it, it's better to close
it.

If/when people do care, they will open a new report (hopefully to the
package actually able to fix this issue) and provide current
information.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>