can't get dvd to auto mount

[m.nassar]

Hi all I'm having a problem on fc9 latest kernel that aslo existed in the kernel before , I have a DVD-ram device that i can't get it to auto mount any dvd that i insert i have to restart the session to auto mount it or mount it manually which sometimes doesn't work for blank dvds. any ideas guys ? btw I googled a little bit and found something related to the service Consolekit which I can't find in my services. Thanks in advance

[PabloTwo]

Try,

ps aux | grep console-kit

It should return: console-kit-daemon

[m.nassar]

well it does return it as you said but the problem still presists

[PabloTwo]

Right. I don't know what is the cause, or the solution, to your cd/dvd's not auto mounting. Just wanted to show you how to confirm whether the console-kit daemon was running or not.

[m.nassar]

aha! ok well at first I didn't look it up that way I searched it in the GUI services dialog system -> administration -> services anyway do you know how to restart it , they said in a forum try restarting this service.
Thanks in advance

[JohnVV]

look in
System / Administration / Services
click on " edit runlevel " at the top and select " runlevel all "
and put a check in the box for 3,4,and 5 to the left of " console-kit" .
Then click on " save" .
then click on " console-kit" to highlight it and click "restart"

[m.nassar]

the problem is the console-kit doesn't exist in services also I cant find the " edit runlevel " option all i find is a customize button that opens run levels for the highlighted service

[PabloTwo]

Try, as root,

/etc/init.d/ConsoleKit restart

.....or

service ConsoleKit restart

[m.nassar]

here is what i get :

[root@blue-eyes ~]# service ConsoleKit restart
ConsoleKit: unrecognized service
[root@blue-eyes ~]# /etc/init.d/ConsoleKit restart
-bash: /etc/init.d/ConsoleKit: No such file or directory

[PabloTwo]

yum install ConsoleKit

I don't know if this will cure your problem or not. But always worth a try.

[m.nassar]

:'( dont know what to do ?
Package ConsoleKit-0.2.10-3.fc9.i386 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do

[PabloTwo]

I don't know what to tell you do at this point. I recall seeing a thread recently that showed how to add a service, but I'm not familiar with that process. I'm puzzled, if it is installed, why there is no file /etc/init.d/ConsoleKit on your system ??

~/> rpm -q ConsoleKit
ConsoleKit-0.2.3-3.fc8.1
~/> ls /etc/init.d/ConsoleKit 
/etc/init.d/ConsoleKit
~/> sudo service status ConsoleKit
status: unrecognized service
~/> sudo /etc/init.d/ConsoleKit status
console-kit-daemon (pid 1923) is running...

Interesting. If I go to the GUI Services, ConsoleKit is the first item in the services list. It's checked. It's running. Yet it doesn't respond in the same manner to the 'service' command as the others. Of course, just rebooting the computer will guarantee a restart of all sevices/daemons.

[PabloTwo]

After my last post above, I shut down the computer and went to bed. It was bugging my mind so much about that "unrecognized service" thing, I got out of bed, rebooted the computer, and:

~/> sudo service ConsoleKit status
console-kit-daemon (pid 1929) is running...
~/> sudo service ConsoleKit restart
Stopping ConsoleKit:                                       [  OK  ]
Starting ConsoleKit:                                       [  OK  ]

Yeah, it's 'service ConsoleKit status', not 'service status ConsoleKit'. I'm going back to bed.

[m.nassar]

hope you had a good sleep after you put your mind to an ease i will try googling adding the service thanks for your help and sorry for annoying
P.S since the service didnt exist for me maybe thats why i cant it to auto moun

[PabloTwo]

Well this just isn't adding up in my mind. When you did

ps aux | grep console-kit

you said it returned that the 'console-kit-daemon' was running. Yum tells you 'ConsoleKit' is installed and the latest version. Yet, you doing

/etc/init.d/CosoleKit restart

bash tells there is no such file or directory and you can't find any 'ConsoleKit' service listed in your GUI services application window, and all your commands to 'service' to control ConsoleKit tell you it's an unknown service. Yet it's running. Things just aren't adding up here. I'm running F8 and you're running F9. In F8, it's "ConsoleKit" in both the /etc/init.d/ directory and what you type in the service command. Could that have changed from F8 to F9 ? Or maybe the directory structure changed ?

Try, ls /etc/rc.d/init.d/ | grep -i console and see what, if anything is returned.
Or try, as root, updatedb, then when that's finished, do locate onsole

On my F8 system, I find the full binary of CosoleKit in two locations:
/etc/init.d/ and /etc/rc.d/init.d/
Neither is a symlink to the other.

edit: adding...

~/> rpm -ql ConsoleKit
/etc/ConsoleKit
/etc/ConsoleKit/seats.d
/etc/ConsoleKit/seats.d/00-primary.seat
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/ConsoleKit.conf
/etc/rc.d/init.d/ConsoleKit
/usr/bin/ck-list-sessions
/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon
/usr/share/doc/ConsoleKit-0.2.3
/usr/share/doc/ConsoleKit-0.2.3/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/ConsoleKit-0.2.3/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/ConsoleKit-0.2.3/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/ConsoleKit-0.2.3/README

Looking at this, me wonders what wrote a copy of ConsoleKit into my /etc/init.d/ folder ? Wasn't me