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darkwillow

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Registered: 2010-01-16

Posts: 10

Can't mount CDs or DVDs [SOLVED]

Hello,

   I recently installed KDE4 and can't get any optical disks to mount. They are recognized, but when I click on them to mount them I get the message "The requested device can not be accessed". Under 'details' I get this:

org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.8" (uid=1000 pid=4303 comm="/usr/bin/lancelot) interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" member="Mount" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination="org.freedesktop.Hal" (uid=0 pid=4064 comm="/usr/sbin/hald))

This is my fstab:

# 
# /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             /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/sda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda4 /home ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda5 / ext4 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda6 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1

I have hal and dbus installed, and the hal daemon is specified in my rc.conf.

Last edited by darkwillow (2010-02-26 18:28:38)

jasonwryan

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Re: Can't mount CDs or DVDs [SOLVED]

You could try:

1. Uncommenting /dev/cdrom and /dev/dvd in fstab
2. Start your KDE session with  exec ck-launch-session startkde (if you start from .xinitrc)
3. Adding some rules to hal: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL … ting_fails
4. Try the devicekit fix: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kde … utomounted

# edit: oh, 5. Make sure you are added to the 'optical' group...

Last edited by jasonwryan (2010-02-26 09:10:21)

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darkwillow

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Registered: 2010-01-16

Posts: 10

Re: Can't mount CDs or DVDs [SOLVED]

You could try:

1. Uncommenting /dev/cdrom and /dev/dvd in fstab

This and a reboot did the trick. Thank you so much!