Fedora Core 5 CD mounting problem

[borg]

I am using FC5. I have problems mounting CDs. VCDs don't mount at all. Other data CDs automount, but when i double click the Cd icon, I get a 'permission denied' error. Whats going on here?. Help needed.

 

[mediator]

are u mounting them as root...............................................................?

 

[Kniwor]

post ur fstab.....

and can u acess them as root

 

[borg]

The following are the contents of my fstab

/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc7 /mnt/fdrive vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/hda /media/dvdrom auto defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb /media/cdrw auto defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0

I don't know why cds don't open even though they are detected. Linux installation disks mount normaly though.

 

[vignesh]

Are you trying to mount the cd/dvd after its automounted ? Then that error is possible... Or remove the auto in fstab and trying mounting them from the terminal and see it this works ?

 

[borg]

There is no need to manually mount in FC5. Disks mount automatically as you insert them. The problem here is whenever I insert a disk, say a VCD, nothing happens. It isn't even detected. But other disks get detected & the menu asking me what to do appears. When I tell it to open it in new window, a new window appears & I get an error 'permission denied'. The same in the user as well as the root account.

 

[azaad_shri75]

probably vedio format is not supported by the default player,download the one supporting the format,its not hte new problem in fc, I have seen it in all previous version,please let ne know whether fc 5 is supporting mp3(I suppose not).

 

[borg]

hmmm... I don't think that is the problem. I have xine with all the codecs installed. Even without the codecs, the Cd should atleast open & show me the files, right?.

And no FC5 doesn't includd MP3 codecs.

 

[Kniwor]

umounting and mounting does not work...
what does it show when u ls the directory

 

[ujjwal]

VCD's cannot be mounted and viewed as a directory, like data CD's. They have a different file format, and the correct way to access them is to open your media player, and ask it to play the cd. Windows does try to access a VCD like a normal data cd, but if you want such behaviour under linux, you need to set up cdfs and mount the disc using the "-t cdfs" option.

The permission denied error is strange, could you post the output of "ls -l /media" when you insert a cd?

 

[borg]

Man I don't get anything when I cd into the CD directory -/media/hda . Its as if the CD isn't there. This is a really a wierd problem.

 

[borg]

Can anyone help with this problem?. I have still not been able to solve it. I have googled enough. Any clues, ideas, anything at all will help.

I will recap evrything once more-

1. I insert CD (any CD)
2. CD gets detected & I get the prompt asking me what to do
3. I click on 'open in new window'
4. A new window opens & I get a 'permission denied' error

The same thing whether I am logged in as root or as normal user.
When I use terminal & CD into /media/cdrw (my drive) & ls, I get nothing. Its as if the CD isn't there.

The o/p of ls -l /media is
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 4 19:33 cdrw
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 4 19:33 dvdrom

 

[mehulved]

Try typing this command after you insert the video cd.

 su
mount -t cdfs /dev/hda /media/dvdrom

See if it helps.

 

[borg]

I happenned to try exactly that & it seems to be working. The CD mounted & I was able to access the files!. I tried it with a data CD though. ANyways, now its clear that the problem is with the automounting mechanism. How do I proceed to set it right?.

 

[mehulved]

Edit the line in ur fstab as follows

/dev/hda /media/dvdrom iso9660,udf,cdfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb /media/cdrw iso9660,cdfs defaults 0 0

Now try to mount with following command

su
mount /media/dvdrom

 

[borg]

hmmm... the above command simply specifies each possible filesystem, instead of using 'auto' , am I right?. What good will that do?. I mean, the problem seems to be with the KDE automounting system.


I tried what have mentioned. It doesn't make any difference. Automounting still doesn't work.

 

[mehulved]

If you haven't changed the fstab entries yet, do this.
Give command

su
mount /media/dvdrom

If you get error then type

dmesg | tail

It will give a clue on the error. I don't know why but specifying the filesystem explicitly works rather than giving auto.
I don't think it is a problem with KDE automounter. Make a change in fstab and then see what happens.

 

[borg]

I made the necessary changes in the fstab, but it makes no difference. Its the same. I still have to maually mount CDs

 

[JGuru]

Whichever VCD/DVD playing software you are using say VLC Media Player, give the
path to your DVD drive (in expert mode options). And make it the default player for
playing VCD & DVD. I did this in Ubuntu & it mounts VCD/DVD automatically!!
The default action is that it doesn't know what to do with the media loaded.

 

[mehulved]

I made the necessary changes in the fstab, but it makes no difference. Its the same. I still have to maually mount CDs

And have you restarted your computer after that? I don't know the reason why but in my case it happened. I was struggling with the automounting problem even after changing the entries in fstab. But, after a reboot everything was mounting properly.