On Monday 06 March 2006 07:34, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Monday 2006-03-06 at 02:11 -0500, Bob S wrote:
Ever since I did a new install of 10.0 (from 9.2) a few months ago I've had a problem with automounting data cd's dvd's. I've been able to work around it but is beginning to get annoying. Here is what happens:
I put in a data disk and wait for it to mount in media:/ I get this message:
Could not mount device. The reported error was: mount: according to mtab, /dev/hdc is already mounted on /media/dvdrecorder mount failed
But,it did mount evidently and then shows up in media:/ I can then see it and use it for my purpose.
It is double-mounting. Two "things" are trying to automount it.
Here is my fstab: (Sorry about the wrap)
Remove this two lines:
/dev/hdc /media/dvdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 /dev/hdd /media/cdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
Hello Carlos, Thanks for replying. OK ... did that
This one too:
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs noauto,fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0
OK.... did that also.
Use traditional lines, no subfs - because subfs is trying to automount, and hald is trying to automount also (so my crystal ball tells me ;-) ). For example:
/dev/hdc /media/dvdrecorder auto noauto,ro,nosuid,nodev,exec 0 0 /dev/hdd /media/cdrecorder auto noauto,ro,nosuid,nodev,exec 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user 0 0
OK.... Cut and pasted those lines into my fstab. Same exact situation as before. Won't work. Now I get this message: Could not mount device. The reported error was: [mntent]: line 18 in /etc/fstab is bad [mntent]: line 19 in /etc/fstab is bad [mntent]: line 20 in /etc/fstab is bad mount: according to mtab, /dev/fd0 is already mounted on /media/floppy mount failed (those are the three lines I pasted into fstab)
I keep hoping that with each new release "everything will just work" sigh !!
maybe you inherited the fstab from your older install.
No, It was a new clean install.
I have tried every possible configuration I can think of and Yast is completely clueless on configuring these drives.
Here are some odd things that I have found: In Yast> Hardware> CD Roms, Yast posts two each of the devices. The NEC dvd device and the LiteOn cd device. They all show as non-configured. I edit them to show the mount point etc. and click "finish" Yast says OK. Reopen the dialogue and they are not configured. The settings do not stick. Now, when I look at /dev it shows 3 devices for each unit. For the cdrecorder it shows cdrom which is linked to /dev/hdc (incorrect - should be /dev/hdd) then cdrecorder, which is correctly linked to hdd, and cdrecorder2 which is linked to /dev/fd0 (really wrong) For the dvdrecorder it shows links from dvd and dvdrecorder to /dev/hdc which is correct. But it also shows a dvdrecorder2 which is linked to /dev/fdo ( again - wrong) cdrecorder 2 and dvdrecorder2 should not even be there. I can manually delete and edit these devices but at the next reboot they are all the same again. Additionally, /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd show me (bob) as the owner and the group as "disk". I can also manually edit those, giving ownership back to root, but again at the next reboot everything reverts to the original configuration.
I know that some of you have completely abandoned this automount/hal stuff and reverted to the "old" way of manually mounting. I would be tempted to do that if I knew how. Hope someone can help me solve this.
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2005-May/1879.html
* Re: [SLE] automounting of Floppy 9.3 [solved: NOT automounting] Carlos E. R. (Fri May 13 2005 - 02:30:19 CEST)
But first, try as above. Then, if you want fully manual mount, read that thread ;-)
I would really rather NOT do that, seeing problems "down the road" with upgrades and such. But this is really getting annoying and frustrating and I may just have to, to keep my sanity. Bob S. Ummmmm.....could this have anything to do with not loading some kernel modules?? I noticed a remark about that in my boot.message log.
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson