Public bug reported: This is not (AFAIK) just an Ubuntu problem, but I had to blame somebody! ;)
A few minutes ago I tried to copy a file from a DVD to the hard disk (nautilus drag-n-drop). The DVD was kind of scratched, so the transfer seemed to fail. The problem is, no message appeared, the DVD started to sound the typical noise when it's scratched (we all know it) and the remaining time for the copy began to raise. The system began to become unusable. I waited some minutes, but no luck. The DVD was spinning and making funny noises. Then I tried to eject by pressing the button, but no luck. After that, I pressed the "cancel" button, but it didn't cancel! It was just as if I hadn't clicked the button. Then nautilus kind of died, and I were unable to right-click on the desktop icon for the DVD, there were no icons at all. So with an unsable system, tried ctrl-alt-backspace to restart the X, but the keyboard didn't respond. Sysrq didn't work anyway. So the last resort was to press the reset button. Honestly I think that this shouldn't happen in a XXI century operating system. I had suffered from this since I remember (kernel 2.2 and very old redhats, problem with broken CDs), but apparently nobody fixed it. Sorry if this has nothing to do with Ubuntu, but I'm using ubuntu after all and I had to fill the bug report somewhere... ** Affects: Ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- Broken DVD disc leaves system unusable https://launchpad.net/bugs/66609 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs