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Stalafin

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Mounting a CD - wrong fs type, bad option,.... in short: mount failed

I am trying to install the Linux version of SPSS. Now simply inserting the CD and trying to open it gives me the following error:

Failed to mount "SPSS160ELin

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0,
       missing codepage or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so.

EDIT: Solutions?

Last edited by Stalafin (2008-02-23 19:35:31)

drag0nl0rd

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Re: Mounting a CD - wrong fs type, bad option,.... in short: mount failed

What is SPSS? How are you trying to open it? What do you have in /etc/fstab?

andre.ramaciotti

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Re: Mounting a CD - wrong fs type, bad option,.... in short: mount failed

and what is the dmesg | tail output?

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Stalafin

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Re: Mounting a CD - wrong fs type, bad option,.... in short: mount failed

SPSS is a statistics software - www.spss.com

One guy at my university could access the data on the CD under Ubuntu.

dmesg | tail is not really helpful:

$ dmesg | tail
sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] 2036224 512-byte hardware sectors (1043 MB)
sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
 sdb: sdb1
sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
usb 2-6: USB disconnect, address 17
UDF-fs: No VRS found

drag0nl0rd

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Re: Mounting a CD - wrong fs type, bad option,.... in short: mount failed

SPSS is a statistics software - www.spss.com

One guy at my university could access the data on the CD under Ubuntu.

So I sugest, you try to contact him. Or contact the the spss.com. They have Linux listed under the system requirements, so they might know it.
If it is some proprietary software CD, it might be difficult to tell, how to mount it without trying. Sorry.

Lone_Wolf

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Re: Mounting a CD - wrong fs type, bad option,.... in short: mount failed

Can you mount other CD's ?

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SiC

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Re: Mounting a CD - wrong fs type, bad option,.... in short: mount failed

What are you typing to mount the DVD?

theringmaster

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Re: Mounting a CD - wrong fs type, bad option,.... in short: mount failed

What are you typing to mount the DVD?

Are you using Xfce4?

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Stalafin

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Re: Mounting a CD - wrong fs type, bad option,.... in short: mount failed

I am actually not typing anything to mount the CD.... I just put it in and hope it's accessible via Thunar - so, yes! I am using XFCE4.

If truth be told I haven't really used my CD ROM ever before last Saturday since installing ArchLinux - that was when I set up Windows XP in a Virtual Machine. When I inserted the disc I got exactly the same error just opening it in Thunar to see its contents.

Yet I am able to create an image of the disc (dd if=[] of=[]).

EDIT: Actually I just created an image of the disc and mounted the image... well... thats a solution, but not really THE solution...

Last edited by Stalafin (2008-02-25 01:07:22)

SiC

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Re: Mounting a CD - wrong fs type, bad option,.... in short: mount failed

hmmm, try manually mounting the disc yourself

mount /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd

assuming you have the /mnt/dvd mountpoint, and also /dev/dvd is listed, it may show as /dev/sr0 or similar.

I personally use autofs, which i've found to work perfectly, took 3 seconds to setup and my cd/dvd is always accessibly from /media/cdrom.

It is most likely to be a configuration issue within thunar if you are finding it not mounting all correctly.

theringmaster

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Re: Mounting a CD - wrong fs type, bad option,.... in short: mount failed

yeah this is a known problem for thunar (xfce4). I've had the problem too.

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mjjzf

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Re: Mounting a CD - wrong fs type, bad option,.... in short: mount failed

Any solution to this? Can't seem to find out.

Rasi

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Re: Mounting a CD - wrong fs type, bad option,.... in short: mount failed

2 things:
a) you need to install thunar-volman, otherwise thunar cannot handle HAL (which is needed for automounting)

and

b) make sure your /etc/fstab file does NOT contain a line for your cd/dvd device, otherwise HAL will fail...

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Re: Mounting a CD - wrong fs type, bad option,.... in short: mount failed

or in fstab put in /mnt/dvd

iso9660,udf

and if you have a mnt/cd

put the same options

luisfeser

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Re: Mounting a CD - wrong fs type, bad option,.... in short: mount failed

2 things:
a) you need to install thunar-volman, otherwise thunar cannot handle HAL (which is needed for automounting)

and

b) make sure your /etc/fstab file does NOT contain a line for your cd/dvd device, otherwise HAL will fail...

Thanks a lot!!!! i was getting crazy!!