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napoleon

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Registered: 2005-04-03

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symlinks present but still gxine and totem can't find it

Hi all this is currently my fstab:

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# /etc/fstab: static file system information
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# <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    auto      ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/dvd               /mnt/dvd      auto      ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/cdrw              /mnt/cdrw     auto      rw,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/fd0               /mnt/floppy   auto      rw,user,noauto,sync     0      0

/dev/hdb2              swap          swap      defaults            0    0
/dev/hdb1              /             ext3      defaults,user_xattr            1$/dev/hdb3              /home         ext3      defaults,user_xattr            1$/dev/hdb4              /windows      vfat      rw,users,umask=111,dmask=000 0  $

/dev/cdrom points to /dev/hdc same as /dev/dvd. and /dev/cdrw points to /dev/hdd. All the dev links are created in /dev/. but gxine still complains

Either create a symbolic link /dev/cdrom pointing to your cdrom device or set your cdrom device in the preferences dialog.

Dvd is alright though its just cds that are the problem.

and Totem with gstreamer gives the following

Totem was not able to play this disc. Failed to find mountpoint for /dev/hdc

I'll appreciate some help please.

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Re: symlinks present but still gxine and totem can't find it

Not sure what's going on with gxine -- did you try specifying your cdrom as /dev/hdc or /dev/cdrom in its preferences?

As far as Totem is concerned, it looks like it's looking for /dev/hdc in your /etc/fstab (trying to find a mountpoint) but it can't find it.  Once again, can you set its configuration to look for /dev/cdrom?  Maybe adding /dev/hdc into your fstab would fix it?