cannot mount cdrw and dvdr

[rcr1991]

Hi,

Just installed FC5 on a HP pavillion, P4 1.8, 1 gb ram system. Seems to work OK, but I cannot read from CDrw or DVD. Obviously this did work for installation (the CD), but now there is nothing in /mnt and in /media when I double click on the cdrw icon it says permissions denied, even when i do it as root or SU.

from fstab:
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto auto,owner,rw 0 0
/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd auto auto,owner,r 0 0

any suggestions?

along same lines, in knoppix the screen shows all the drives in the system on the desktop--i like that, anyone know how to get that to show up?

thanks,

rob

[lazlow]

rob

Did you manually add those lines to fstab? I THINK Fc5 changed the way it handles DVD/CD drives. I do not have any line in my fstab dealing with my DVD/CD drives and my drives work fine. When I mount a drive it just adds a subdirectory called drive int the media (/media/drive). When I eject the DVD/CD it deletes the subdirectory.

I think you can just copy the launchers from computer to desktop.

Lazlow

[rcr1991]

Thanks.

Yes, I manually added those lines after not being able to read disks. I took them out, rebooted, and still no reading drives.

I'll try copying launchers for the other drives.

Anyone else with any ideas to get FC5 to see my CD and DVD drives. I am a newbie, so if there is a config file I should supply to make answering easier, can someone please tell me where it is?

Thanks!

Rob

[Seve]

Hello:
You may want to have a quick read through here :http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/releas...ISO/#id3103424
and there is a how-to create fixed mount points here if you want : http://forum.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=103810
You may also want to check your Service Configuration to make sure that you have autofs, haldaemon and messagebus are enabled.
hth
Seve

[tonyzoc]

I'm having the same problem and I think it's because autofs is failing to start. Any ideas what could be causing autofs to fail? I did make edits to nsswitch.conf, smb.conf, system-auth, gdm and logn as part of a single sign-on for windows domain accounts (see this link for details http://www.redmondmag.com/columns/ar...itorialsID=858). I'm not sure if this is related but the problem started around the time I made these changes.
Any ideas what to check?
Thanks

[tonyzoc]

I did have a mistake in nsswitch.conf that was preventing autofs from starting. With that fixed I still had avahi and hal daemons failing to start. I tried turning off SELinux and it had no effect. At one point, on a reboot, I got an SELinux warning and the table needed rebuilding..it did and after rebooting avahi did start...but hal daemon still won't start on boot. It does start manually after reboot. Also, DVDs don't autostart xine as I have in directed to.