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RazZziel

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From: Spain

Registered: 2007-07-13

Posts: 36

Unable to mount media: "Cannot obtain lock on /media/.hal-mtab"

Mounting media devices under KDE has always worked well, but suddenly, I started getting a "Cannot obtain lock on /media/.hal-mtab" when trying to mount a device.

I tried to remove the file, but I can't, even as root:

[root@Bebop raziel]# ls -la /media/
ls: cannot access /media/.hal-mtab: Permission denied
ls: cannot access /media/.hal-mtab-lock: Permission denied
total 1
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 112 2007-11-20 19:51 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 488 2007-11-20 20:50 ..
??????????  ? ?    ?      ?                ? .hal-mtab
??????????  ? ?    ?      ?                ? .hal-mtab-lock
[root@Bebop raziel]# rm -rf /media/.hal-mtab*
rm: cannot remove `/media/.hal-mtab': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/media/.hal-mtab-lock': Permission denied

And in the ls output, the name of the files are in blinking white over red background.

My root partition is formated on reiserfs, could this be a reiserfs problem? Any ideas?