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
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Broken DVD disc leaves system unusable
https://launchpad.net/bugs/66609
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