Automounting CD/DVD (SOLVED)

webmasteryoda · 2010-04-22 19:53:13

Well I tried wikis solution, but the problem persist.

When I insert CD or DVD it is not automounted. I have to restart if I want to access it.

Any solution?

Last edited by webmasteryoda (2010-04-26 22:34:27)

loafer · 2010-04-22 19:58:28

Which DE etc. are you using?

webmasteryoda · 2010-04-22 20:08:30

Its KDE.

I installed autofs4 and put it in the modules list.

What else can I do?

loafer · 2010-04-22 20:20:17

So it's simply not mounted at all? Not visible in Dolphin and doesn't show up via mount command?

mcmillan · 2010-04-22 20:41:05

KDE is using hal for mounting, do you have it listed in with your daemons in rc.conf?

wonder · 2010-04-22 20:51:53

if you are using KDM you don't need to do anything but if you use xinitrc method you need to use consolekit.

exec ck-launch-session wm

webmasteryoda · 2010-04-22 21:09:50

loafer wrote:

So it's simply not mounted at all? Not visible in Dolphin and doesn't show up via mount command?

Yap its not visible in >Dolphin.

Didnt tried to mount command because I want it mount automaticaly.

loafer · 2010-04-22 21:11:46

As wonder says how do you start kde?

webmasteryoda · 2010-04-22 21:12:14

I use KDM

And there is HAL in my daemons list.

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I repeat. It is visible after restart if I leave the CD inside my drive.

webmasteryoda · 2010-04-22 21:13:19

MODULES=(acpi-cpufreq cpufreq_ondemand cpufreq_powersave agpgart intel-agp fglrx autofs4)
DAEMONS=(!network syslog-ng dbus hal cpufreq laptop-mode !netfs crond alsa wicd kdm)

loafer · 2010-04-22 21:15:03

Could it be group membership? What groups is your user a member of?

wonder · 2010-04-22 21:15:50

try starting kdm using inittab way, is know as kdm started as daemon is kinda buggy

webmasteryoda · 2010-04-22 21:23:01

loafer wrote:

Could it be group membership? What groups is your user a member of?

lp wheel network video audio optical storage power users

webmasteryoda · 2010-04-22 21:34:55

wonder wrote:

try starting kdm using inittab way, is know as kdm started as daemon is kinda buggy

I tried it without KDM. Still no success.

One more thing. Previously I said that its working after restart. Now I must add that its NOT working. Its just showing CD label in dolphin and displaying some sort of error when I try to open it.

I think I missed something badly. Am I supposed to create a folder before seting automount ?

KimTjik · 2010-04-22 22:31:44

You shouldn't need to do anything particular besides what's already mentioned. It's not that you for some reason have some CD/DVD entry in /etc/fstab which now interfere with auto mounting?

webmasteryoda · 2010-04-22 22:39:34

KimTjik wrote:

You shouldn't need to do anything particular besides what's already mentioned. It's not that you for some reason have some CD/DVD entry in /etc/fstab which now interfere with auto mounting?

#
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
devpts                 /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
shm                    /dev/shm      tmpfs     nodev,nosuid        0      0

#/dev/cdrom             /media/cd   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
#/dev/dvd               /media/dvd  auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
#/dev/fd0               /media/fl   auto    user,noauto             0      0

/dev/sda6 /home ext4 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda7 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda8 / ext4 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda3 /mnt/windata ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

So, cdrom and dvd is commented. Is it ok ?

KimTjik · 2010-04-23 08:48:35

Yes they should be commented out.

webmasteryoda · 2010-04-23 09:09:38

KimTjik wrote:

Yes they should be commented out.

Well it helped in a way its mounting after the restart now.

But if I restart without a CD in a drive its not automounting.

webmasteryoda · 2010-04-23 21:49:12

I suppose its some sort of startup procedure.

What do I have to do to setup automount of my optical drive?

After Arch installation procedure....

webmasteryoda · 2010-04-23 22:57:34

wrong mssg.... delete just this post plz

Last edited by webmasteryoda (2010-04-23 22:58:23)

KimTjik · 2010-04-24 09:25:18

How to interpret your last message? Did you find out the reason for why it didn't work?

webmasteryoda · 2010-04-24 15:20:04

KimTjik wrote:

How to interpret your last message? Did you find out the reason for why it didn't work?

Nope, I didnt solve it. I just dont get it.

Topic is ok, I just wanted to delete my post. Forget it or skip it.

Problem not solved.

webmasteryoda · 2010-04-26 22:33:07

Here s how I solved problem:

Its taken from Arch wiki...

Auto-mounting fails
Inserted CD/DVD does not get recognized by HAL
If inserted CDs/DVDs are not recognized by HAL (no icon on the desktop or notification), check /etc/fstab and remove the lines for the optical drives.
If that does not work, it may be because your device is not "checked" for automount by HAL. I am not sure why but you may have a file under /etc/hal/fdi/information/media-check-disable-storage_model_$YOUR_DEVICE.fdi which should have a content similar to:
File: /etc/hal/fdi/information/media-check-disable-storage_model_$YOUR_DEVICE.fdi
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="info.udi" string="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_DV$
<merge key="storage.media_check_enabled" type="bool">false</merge>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
If the key is set to false (it was in my case), all you have to do is to change the value of the key to true.

Last edited by webmasteryoda (2010-04-26 22:33:53)

hit · 2010-06-23 09:07:04

For me, either version worked and I ended up uncommenting cd/dvd lines in fstab, which finally allowed me to mount CDs and DVDs.

Last edited by hit (2010-06-23 09:07:24)

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Automounting CD/DVD (SOLVED)

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