Guest kayann Posted January 7, 2007 Report Share Posted January 7, 2007 Today for some reason I can no longer access my DVD drive under Mandrive 2007 Powerpack. Yesterday it was working fine :-) When I go into Devices (icon on desktop) and double click on the DVD drive, I see the mount process running, then a message pops up saying "Access denied /mnt/cdrom." For some strange reason it's user id and group are set to some weird random number: 4294967295. This suprises me but then again I don't know if it is meant to be or not - I would've expected something more like 'ken' as that is my user id/login. I'm pretty new to all this so go easy :-) As root (su in terminal) I 'umount /mnt/cdrom', then 'chown root:root /mnt/cdrom'. (change seems to show in konquorer) (why did i do this? simply because that's what I saw my hard drive partitions all are owner: root, group: root) However when I then mount it I still get access denied, and user id and group get reset back to that same strange number. When I unmount it - it's all back to root:root... fstab file: /dev/sda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/sda8 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 /dev/sda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs umask=0,nls=utf8,ro 0 0 /dev/sda6 /mnt/win_d ntfs umask=0,nls=utf8,ro 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/sda7 swap swap defaults 0 0 What tampering have I done lately? Nothing that I would've thought relevant. in fact the ONLY thing I did was play with my video card drivers. Ie. in the config tool I changed my graphics card from Radeon (fbdev) which is where it was after install, to Radeon. Dumb i know. Lost my gui didn't I. no screens or whatnot. Thankfully I dual boot with Vista... I tried xorgconfig but that didn't work. However XFdrake worked, and my gui is back, however after this (I suspect) when I try to access my dvd drive i get this acces denied error. Only weird thing i noted (no idea if it's always been like this) but config shows device sr0 with a connection type of SCSI... and my DVD drive is an IDE drive... disk identifier is correct. and i can get to the dvd via the terminal as root... I can listen to Audio CD's fine, but I guess that's cause they don't really mount... (or so I hear rumored) Any ideas? I've spent a while searching and reading but nothing seems to have helped... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted January 7, 2007 Report Share Posted January 7, 2007 Is it some USB or firewire drive? Which kernel version are you booting? Try commenting out/deleting the fstab entry: /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kayann Posted January 7, 2007 Report Share Posted January 7, 2007 (edited) Is it some USB or firewire drive?Which kernel version are you booting? Try commenting out/deleting the fstab entry: /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 No, just a standard internal IDE DVD writer. If 'uname -r' is the right command then the kernel is "2.6.17-5mdv" Deleting that fstab entry fixed the problem. Discs can now be accessed, and seems to be working as per normal. The only thing I noted, and don't know if this is normal or not, is that they appear to mount to '/mnt/DISC_LABEL', where DISC_LABEL is the label of the cd/dvd inserted in the drive. eg. '/mnt/2007.0-Powerpack-i586-disc1'. Thank you for your help. Edited January 7, 2007 by kayann Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kayann Posted January 7, 2007 Report Share Posted January 7, 2007 (edited) Don't mean to spam my own thread but... I suspect that this new mounting behaviour is not how it should be doing it as now when I try to do some things (eg. install packages) the system can't find the DVD because it is looking for it to be mounted at mnt/cdrom as opposed to a constantly changing mnt/DISC_LABEL... :mellow: EDIT: Until something else goes wrong I think I many have fixed it. Basically from this point I deleted /mnt/cdrom, then in the configuration centre where you set your CD/DVD mount point I changed it to something else, then changed it back to mnt/cdrom, and on exit it asked if I wished to save the fstab changes, which I did, and now all seems back to normal, with discs mounting in mnt/cdrom and with me being able to access them again. Edited January 7, 2007 by kayann Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted January 7, 2007 Report Share Posted January 7, 2007 The new removable media automounter (it's the combo message bus / hal / pmount) can mount CD's and DVD's without any fstab entry, but a few applications (e.g. wine ) may need that entry. Still, I think /dev/sr0 cannot be the correct device node for an Atapi CD-ROM, even if you use kernel 2.6.19 (which uses a new ATA nomenclature). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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