media:/{root partition} gives Permission denied, kde 3.5.5

connexion2000 · 2006-10-17 14:21:00

When trying to access root ("/" - hda9) partition from konqueror's media:/ folder, it gives
Permission Denied. All other partitions are accessible (/home - hda10, /boot - hda 8). Also hda9 icon shows that it is unmounted, but according to mtab it is mounted:
/dev/hda9 / ext3 rw 0 0

piece of /etc/fstab:
/dev/hda9 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/hda10 /home ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/hda8 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1

Only hda9 (root partition) gives this error. Also cdrom and dvdrom devices are invisble under media:/. They shows after putting cd. After putting cd inside my DVD, this cdrom shows as unmounted cd recorder (instead of dvd).
How to make cdrom and dvd show in media:/ ? And how to access root partition from media:/ ?

zack · 2006-10-17 16:44:36

Is your user in the group storage and optical?

connexion2000 · 2006-10-17 17:24:58

Yes, user is in both groups.

kanpio · 2006-10-17 22:06:56

I've got the same problem. Any solution?

con · 2006-10-18 07:12:04

if you have a line for the the dvd device in /etc/fstab comment it out and reboot

connexion2000 · 2006-10-27 14:08:51

I am refreshing this subject,, because now kde 3.5.5 is in current and problem still exists. Root partition shows up in media:/ as unmounted partition and when I try accessing it, error shows: Permission denied.

ToLo · 2006-10-27 17:49:06

I'm am still on KDE 3.5.4 but had this symptoms too.
Downgradin' 'hal' to
Version : 0.5.7-2 solved my problems.
All the followin' versions are not working properly for me.
greetz ToLo

m123 · 2006-10-27 19:51:26

I filed a bug for this yesterday:
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/5673

I think they refer to this one when they say it's a duplicate (although it's unclear to me because the base symptoms are not the same):
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/5519

damjan · 2006-10-31 00:55:34

Adding the missing /dev/root symlink solves this problem, and the problem I had that I couldn't even mount normal USB flash driver via HAL

kanpio · 2006-11-10 10:42:26

Now I can't access neither root partition nor flopppy via media:/ protocol in KDE. I can manage that, but for my girlfrind (and for many users, I think) it's a quite big problem. It's not solved for a long time. Can developers repair that?

ks1 · 2006-11-10 15:11:28

Hopefully this bug gets fixed soon. This is affecting gnome/kde/etc. Like someone else said, they can manage but other users might not be as advanced and cannot. Hopefully fixed soon.

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media:/{root partition} gives Permission denied, kde 3.5.5

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