Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1382 mails)

[Stan Goodman <stan.goodman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 03:05:20 on Monday Monday 01 June 2009, "Carlos E. R." 
<robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Monday, 2009-06-01 at 00:01 +0300, Stan Goodman wrote:
> > > Ok, then try to umount, then mount - manually.
> >
> > stan@poblano:~> umount /media/floppy
> > stan@poblano:~> ls /media/floppy
> > stan@poblano:~> mount /media/floppy
> > mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
> > stan@poblano:~> mount /media/floppy
> >
> > Above, is the umount, which was effective, since ls returned nothing.
> > It is unexpected (at least to me) that the mount command then gets
> > the error message.
>
> And that's the real error: your system thinks it does not have a
> floppy.
>
> You could look at the end of the /var/log/messages file right after the
> mount command, to see if the kernel says anything. Also, eject and put
> the floppy and look up the log again. Another place is to look in
> /var/log/boot.msg anything relative to the floppy.
>
> --
> Cheers,
>         Carlos E. R.

I now see what it is that has to be done in order to get the floppy drive 
to be properly mounted; the WHY of it is still beyond me. Here is the 
sequence of actions:

Before the diskette is inserted into the floppy drive, the Drive 
information list shows the floppy icon, but with no details.

Inserting the diskette into the drive changes nothing, although <fstab> 
contains the line: 
/dev/fd0       /media/floppy       auto      noauto,user,sync      0 0
so apparently the drive is not mounted.

I then did <mount /media/floppy>. This returns an error message saying 
that the apparently unmounted drive is already mounted.

I did <umount/media/floppy>, to remove the evidently improperly mounted 
drive, followed by <mount/media/floppy. At no point have I removed the 
diskette from the drive.

Now the Drive information list shows details of the floppy drive, and 
clicking on the floppy icon shows the files contained in the drive.

The only conclusion that I can reach is that there is something wrong with 
the automatic mounting of the drive, per the above-quoted line in 
<fstab>. But to me, that line looks like what it should be.

Viewing <var/log/messages> shows only the following lines relative to the 
sequence above:

Jun  2 12:02:24 poblano su: (to root) stan on /dev/pts/3
Jun  2 12:10:24 poblano kernel: [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown 
parameter 5
Jun  2 12:12:33 poblano su: (to root) stan on /dev/pts/4

The two lines about /dev/pts are only about the console I was using, and 
so are irrelevant, as far as I understand. I have no clue what "parameter 
5" has been found, nor how it got to wherever it is. It seems that this 
is the root of the problem of why the drive IS mounted, but isn't 
MOUNTED.

Help!

-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel
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