Guest OrangeSlice Posted September 8, 2004 Report Share Posted September 8, 2004 right. friend of mine told me to come here and ask you. Originally, when I first installed Mandrake, inserting a cd into one of the two cd drives I have would automatically mount it and create a link on the desktop. It doesn't do that anymore. Furthermore, attempting to mount the cdrom manually yields this from the console: mount: /dev/hdc already mounted or /mnt/cdrom busy mount: according to mtab, /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd is already mounted on /mnt/cdrom Same deal with cdrom2. Any suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted September 8, 2004 Report Share Posted September 8, 2004 Please post the contents of your /etc/fstab Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest OrangeSlice Posted September 8, 2004 Report Share Posted September 8, 2004 /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted September 9, 2004 Report Share Posted September 9, 2004 (edited) Your fstab looks perfectly OK. This means that what is missing is only the Icon on the Desktop. That is why the console query tells you the cdrom is already mounted. Use Konqueror and go to /mnt and see if /cdrom and /cdrom2 are shown. I suspect they are so if you have a cdrom in one of those two and click on it you should see the data. Open Kde Control Centre and go to Look&Feel then select Behaviour and click on it. select Device Icons and make sure there is a check in each of the boxes alongside of ALL references to CDROMs (mounted and unmounted). Click apply and you should be okay again. Cheers. John. Edited September 9, 2004 by AussieJohn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest OrangeSlice Posted September 9, 2004 Report Share Posted September 9, 2004 Right. I tried all that before (I'm not completely linux-illiterate :D) And it comes up with this: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted September 9, 2004 Report Share Posted September 9, 2004 Those are the audio files on your cd (but you knew that already). Have you tried the succestion from AussieJohn? Sounds to me like that is exactly what you are looking for. That will enable the icons to appear on your desktop again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solarian Posted September 9, 2004 Report Share Posted September 9, 2004 (edited) ------- 0. open a terminal 1. su as root then 2. fuser -km /mnt/cdrom (this will kill all the proceses which are making your cdrom busy) 3. umount /mnt/cdrom (this unmounts the unclean mount) 4. mount /mnt/cdrom (remounts the cdrom and all should be fine now) take notice! If the processes you kill are OS critical, then your X and keyboard will freeze. You'll probably have to restart. This happens sometimes, however that is rare. g'luck! Edited September 9, 2004 by solarian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest OrangeSlice Posted September 9, 2004 Report Share Posted September 9, 2004 That worked, thank you! It's just horrible being unable to use either of the cd-rom drives. Now I can sleep peacefully at night again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandriva-user Posted September 10, 2004 Report Share Posted September 10, 2004 ------- 0. open a terminal 1. su as root then 2. fuser -km /mnt/cdrom (this will kill all the proceses which are making your cdrom busy) 3. umount /mnt/cdrom (this unmounts the unclean mount) 4. mount /mnt/cdrom (remounts the cdrom and all should be fine now) take notice! If the processes you kill are OS critical, then your X and keyboard will freeze. You'll probably have to restart. This happens sometimes, however that is rare. g'luck! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well one gentleman got the same proble like me and know one try to help that is ok,that is my second resource in that forum to look for a answer see yaaaaa. today was my last q. for you gentleman.Bye,bye or tschues, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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