cdrom not mounting

[scoonma]

Ian is right: The symbolic links are all well, if they point to a single device, but you'd possibly run into probs if cdrom and cdrom0 pointed to different devices, if there was only one dev reading CDs. I thought this would maybe the case.

 

Do you still have the "pamconsole" and "managed" options enabled with /dev/hdc? I've never used them.

 

You probably have a little mess now, right? So I'd suggest to remove the cdrom entry from fstab and get it automatically detected on next reboot by harddrake service or from MCC.

 

Hal is good for comfortable userspace access to the cdrom, but it's not a "core linux" app. After having a installed your cdrom entry anew, I'd disable HAL, try to insert a CD and manually mount is as root. ("mount /mnt/cdrom") Does this work? If not, what is the output?

 

HTH,

 

scoonma

[scarecrow]

Disable HAL- for what? Any modern Linux distro with HAL disabled is like a wonderfully baked cheespie- without cheese...

And it's not HAL's fault that Mandriva 2006 still uses supermount as well as other obsolete methods to automount devices. Hopefully Mandriva 2007 and its 2.17.8 kernel (ATM) will take better care, and send to the wastebin all the old automounters...

Other than that, I do agree that "pamconsole" and "managed" are pretty useless Mandrivesque subtleties, which a normal user will likely NEVER need.

Edited August 25, 2006 by scarecrow

[scoonma]

I didn't want to argue against HAL - just meant to disable it temporarily for testing purpose. If anything goes wrong, you'd best be off with a most simple config, and add components subsequently. (KISS in error searching ;-)

 

Cheers,

 

scoonma