On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 12:57 -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> I created a new user, shutdown, restarted, logged on to the new user,
> inserted a different CD and the same symptoms resulted :
>
> lshal -m
>
> 12:55:21.018: storage_model_CD_224E property
> storage.removable.media_available = true
> 12:55:21.044: storage_model_CD_224E property
> storage.removable.media_size = 603346944 (0x23f65800)
> 12:55:21.051: storage_model_CD_224E property
> storage.cdrom.write_speeds
> = {}
> 12:55:21.399: volume_label_CD_12 added
>
>
> and the cd was not mounted.
>
> Thanks again for your help!!!
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that all looks good - I don't think it actually mounts until you tell it
to mount - i.e. I use KDE and KDE uses a widget called 'Device Notifier'
and it wouldn't mount the inserted CD until you do something like open
the disk with 'file manager' (Dolphin). I don't know the similar actions
from GNOME. You might find that the disk is actually available and
waiting for user instruction to actually 'mount' it.
Craig
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Craig,
I wish giving a command were the case. In fact when I try to mount
using a konsole interface with a user different than root I get :
mount /dev/sr0 /media/cd
mount: only root can do that
If I watch what happens on a different fedora installation the mounting
directory is created and the lock files are created in the /media
directory. On this new install of F11 neither of those occur.
Since I can mount with the root account but am unable to mount with any
other user account do you think looking at mount's security is where I
should look. I turned off selinux and rebooted for grins, but that did
not make a difference either.
hal is recognizing the new CD for sure, but it just is not mounting it
when it is recognized.
Thank you again for your help if you have any other thoughts ......
Greg
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To All :
I have not been able to solve this problem with hal. If any of you have
an idea of what to do next I would appreciate it. Thanks to Craig and
Hiisi and Aaron for their dialog.
I don't like building kludges but I could not figure out how to fix this
problem without a BIG KLUDGE. Here is how I have temporarily solved it
until one of you can help me learn how to fix hal.
#1. Create subdirectory 'cd' in '/media' so that '/media/cd' is
addressable with protections of <444>.
#2. Added line item in /etc/fstab of :
/dev/cdrom /media/cd iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#3. Created a perl script to mount the cd by way of :
'/bin/mount /media/cd' and created a launcher link on the desktop of the
user.
#4. Created a perl script to unmount the cd by way of :
'/bin/umount /media/cd' and created a launcher link on the desktop to
the user.
This gives manual control to a user that has never heard of the words
'mount' and 'umount'
Greg
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