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smcsw2000

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Registered: 2007-06-22

Posts: 130

cannot mount cd

I recently did a pacman -S kde and upon completion some small things are going awry. Right now I am working on mounting my cd/dvd when attempting to mount them I get the following "Error - kio_media_mounthelper  could not find program "mount"   I checked etc/fstab and found the following

/etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom   iso9660   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd   udf   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/sdb1 / reiserfs defaults 0 1
/dev/sdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb3 /home reiserfs defaults 0 1
/dev/sda1 /mnt/backup reiserfs defaults 0 1

This appears to be alright. So now I am stuck. What do I do next ??  Thanks for the help.

Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 11,482

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Re: cannot mount cd

"Error - kio_media_mounthelper  could not find program "mount"

mount hasn't got lost on your system somehow (i.e. is it still in /bin)?

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smcsw2000

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Registered: 2007-06-22

Posts: 130

Re: cannot mount cd

mountpoint 4.8k executable file is still in the /bin directory. while searching I found the following in xsession errors  kded: error: mount failed for  /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume then I got an error and the file was gone> Help

Last edited by smcsw2000 (2007-11-21 12:21:04)

bangkok_manouel

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Registered: 2005-02-07

Posts: 1,556

Re: cannot mount cd

Try commenting out the following lines to see if it helps:

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom   iso9660   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd   udf   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0

smcsw2000

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Registered: 2007-06-22

Posts: 130

Re: cannot mount cd

Commenting out was no good. My xsession is full of errors I have a lot to learn and correct. I found this error in xsession.

kded: ERROR: mount failed for  /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_f8f9dbcc_bce0_4258_9964_68a23da78fd9:  org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied - A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected message had interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" member "Mount" error name "(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.Hal")

I have no idea what this means or where a message bus configuration file is or what its name is.  and who is Hal?

lilsirecho

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Registered: 2003-10-24

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Re: cannot mount cd

Hal is Hardware Abstraction Layer and has a daemon in rc.conf..

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djre

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Registered: 2007-10-19

Posts: 36

Re: cannot mount cd

I can't seem to remember what groups I had had to add my name to to mount my cd. Try hal, disk, optics. Im not sure though. If you're already stuck then there's no harm in trying.

Doehni

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-05-19

Posts: 175

Re: cannot mount cd

Type

groups

to see what groups you are in.
To add your user to a gruop, use such a command as root (taken from http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners_Guide

usermod -aG audio,video,floppy,lp,optical,network,storage,wheel USERNAME

This is the list of my groups:

tty disk wheel games dbus hal video audio optical floppy storage power users abs

edit: I think the important groups for accessing a CD are: disk, dbus, hal, optical

Last edited by Doehni (2007-12-12 21:16:33)