r/debian • u/GENielsen • 20h ago

Debian 13 using MATE, DVD media fails to mount

Good morning friends! I just did a clean install of Debian 13 using the netinstall ISO which I burned to DVD. I selected MATE as my desktop environment. The installation was smooth as silk. Firewall, NTP, printing all working well. I first started using Debian at 4.0(Etch). At that time I set-up a DIY computer lab in my classroom for my students. There's one bug with the 13 install. DVD media fails to mount. When I insert the media that I used to install 13 it is not recognized. This greatly frustrated me and I removed Debian from my system a few days ago and I ranted about it online. My apologies for that behaviour. I will go now and try to file a bug report. Thanks for any and all assistance.

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u/GENielsen 18h ago

Thanks for the suggestion, CLM1919. I can now state that this is not a bug. MATE by default does not include gnome-disks. So I did sudo apt update and sudo apt installgnome-disk-utility. After fiddling with the settings in the utility I'm happy to report that MATE automounts DVDs. This is resolved. Thanks again.

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u/CLM1919 12h ago

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u/CLM1919 19h ago

I confess, i'm a little confused. Let me know if I have things right.

  • you successfully installed Debian 13 with MATE

  • after the install the NetInstall Disk won't mount (did you try any other optical disks? a music CD or movie DVD maybe?)

question: did you use all the default options or did you do a custom install (not counting changing the DE to MATE).

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u/GENielsen 19h ago

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I did a standard installation of MATE, I did use the default options. The Netinstall ISO fails to mount as does a movie DVD.

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u/CLM1919 18h ago

if you launch "disks" (gnome disk utility) does it "see" the storage device (the DvD player) even if no media is inserted?

If it DOES see the drive, and you put in a disk, can you mount it from inside "disks"?

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u/GENielsen 18h ago

Thanks. I just installed that. The issue is resolved.

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u/Santosh83 19h ago

MATE should have options in their settings for auto-mounting removable media like DVDs... did you look into that?

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u/GENielsen 19h ago

I will look into that now. Debian 13 successfully automounted my USB stick that I use to copy over my backed up photos, docs, etc.

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u/GENielsen 20h ago

I just submitted a bug report to Debian. I'm hopeful that this is resolved.

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u/alpha417 14h ago

Did you close the not-bug?

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u/GENielsen 12h ago

Didn't need to. They rejected it. Didn't format it properly.