FC3 & cd annoyances

[egcp]

Hi!

I just did a clean reinstall of FC3 after working very happily with RH9 for a couple of years. Everything seems to work right now, except for a couple of annoyances with respect to the CDRW.

The system is a Dell Latitude C840, with updated udev (039.10.FC3.6), hal (0.4.2.1.FC3) and kernel (2.6.9.1.681_FC3). First of all, the CDs do not automount. I did some research and this could be due to bug#138148 and the hack to fix it in the latest hal. Yes, CDRW is hdb and hard disk hda. However, music CDs (store-bought) don't play automatically either, even though gnome-volume-properties is setup to do it. I thought music CDs were not mounted. Would somebody confirm these as problems or bugs?

The other annoyance is when mounting CDs written with Windows XP (same laptop, dual boot). Using usermount sends the following error: "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb, or too many mounted file systems"

The corresponding fstab is as follows:
/dev/hdb /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t ,exec,noauto,managed 0 0

Now, supposedly using "auto" as the type should recognize the CD as iso9660 as such and mount it without error, but it doesn't do it.

I can manually mount the CD with "mount -t iso9660" without errors and read the files in there. My question is, why is "auto" not working in the fstab? and how can I change the fstab option to iso9660 now that udev is used? Any edits to fstab get reset after rebooting.

Thanks in advance for your help.
EGCP

[imdeemvp]

Did you enable seLinux? That could be your problem.

[mickeyboy]

Go back and install udev-039-10.FC3.4 and that will solve your problems.
They fixed the problem in FC3.4 and turn right around and screwed it
backup with FC3.5 and FC3.6 .

Jim

[soulestream]

Now, supposedly using "auto" as the type should recognize the CD as iso9660 as such and mount it without error, but it doesn't do it.

auto mounts the drive at boot time, it wont do it when you just insert the CD, if that is what you are doing. to check your mount configs you can put in the CD and use mount -a, that will reload anything that is in fstab. i dont think "auto" reconizes the FS.( imay be wrong on that)

as far as resetting fstab. FC3 is probaly doing it,cause something is wrong or it thinks something is wrong.Like not loading the right cdrom drive. im not sure on the whole autoplay thing cause the first thing i do on any OS is turn that off.


soule

[egcp]

Thanks for your replies. I think I was not very clear with my explanation.

The problem exists whether SELinux is enabled or not.

Would you please tell me what was the thing that was fixed in udev-039-10.FC3.4 but broken afterwards?

It seems there were several other problems with earlier versions of udev. I don't have any problems with not seeing the CD or broken links or user access. These problems happen whether I am root or a user.

It is just that the file system option in fstab does not recognize CDs burned in WinXP. I'm getting this message when trying to mount it:

kernel: UDF-fs: No partition found (1)

BUT, if I type "mount -t iso9660" the same CD mounts without errors and I'm able to read the files in it.

I also get this error:
kernel: cdrom: open failed

Again, it seems that fstab is not being paying attention to, since the line for the CD says noauto, so it won't try to mount it at boot time, but it does and since there is no CD in it at boot, it complains.

Now, with respect to music CDs. Do I neet to have autofs running and defined for the music CDs to play automatically when inserted (gnome-volume-properties is setup to do it)?

Thanks for your help,
Enrique