Hello all,

This morning I disabled certain services so as to enable FC5 Linux to boot
faster. I had used the ntsysv utility earlier too but never had any problem.
However, to my utter surprise, now I do not see the cdrom drives anymore in
"Computer" window. Even as a root when I try to mount the cdrom, it says no
entry in /etc/fstab or mtab.
When I try to click on System>System Settings>Removable Drives and Media, a
box pops up informing that the "hal"service needs to be restarted. In GUI
also the service haldaemon does not start and neither as root via CLI.
Both of my cdrw and dvd are currently not being mounted although kudzu is
enabled. Is there anyway to restore the system defaults?
Please help. TIA.

Rgds Poms

Poma wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> This morning I disabled certain services so as to enable FC5 Linux to boot
> faster. I had used the ntsysv utility earlier too but never had any problem.
> However, to my utter surprise, now I do not see the cdrom drives anymore in
> "Computer" window. Even as a root when I try to mount the cdrom, it says no
> entry in /etc/fstab or mtab.
> When I try to click on System>System Settings>Removable Drives and Media, a
> box pops up informing that the "hal"service needs to be restarted. In GUI
> also the service haldaemon does not start and neither as root via CLI.
> Both of my cdrw and dvd are currently not being mounted although kudzu is
> enabled. Is there anyway to restore the system defaults?
> Please help. TIA.

You can make it manually and edit your fstab

/dev/cdrom /mnt/dvd udf,iso9660 noauto,users,ro 0 0

Just check what devices your burner and dvd uses,

ls -l /dev/cdr* /dev/dvd*

Those are usually symlinks, så just check two that points on different hdX or sdX.

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//Aho

"J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> wrote in message
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> Poma wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > This morning I disabled certain services so as to enable FC5 Linux to
boot
> > faster. I had used the ntsysv utility earlier too but never had any
problem.
> > However, to my utter surprise, now I do not see the cdrom drives anymore
in
> > "Computer" window. Even as a root when I try to mount the cdrom, it says
no
> > entry in /etc/fstab or mtab.
> > When I try to click on System>System Settings>Removable Drives and
Media, a
> > box pops up informing that the "hal"service needs to be restarted. In
GUI
> > also the service haldaemon does not start and neither as root via CLI.
> > Both of my cdrw and dvd are currently not being mounted although kudzu
is
> > enabled. Is there anyway to restore the system defaults?
> > Please help. TIA.
>
> You can make it manually and edit your fstab
>
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/dvd udf,iso9660 noauto,users,ro 0 0
>
> Just check what devices your burner and dvd uses,
>
> ls -l /dev/cdr* /dev/dvd*
>
> Those are usually symlinks, så just check two that points on different hdX
or sdX.
>
> --
>
> //Aho

Mr. Genius.....Aho, Thank you soooooooo much for your assistance. I entered
the above mentioned line. Now I recall earlier I gave "Defaults" as
permission. Now the GUI lists the cd and dvd drives. However, when the cd
was in the cdrw drive and I gave eject command, the dvd tray came out even
as the cdrw had the cd running. This wasn't the case earlier. Can you pls
throw some light on this?

TIA, Poms

Poma wrote:

> Mr. Genius.....Aho, Thank you soooooooo much for your assistance. I entered
> the above mentioned line. Now I recall earlier I gave "Defaults" as
> permission. Now the GUI lists the cd and dvd drives. However, when the cd
> was in the cdrw drive and I gave eject command, the dvd tray came out even
> as the cdrw had the cd running. This wasn't the case earlier. Can you pls
> throw some light on this?

You have mixed up the devices for dvd and cdrw, so when you eject the dvd you
eject the cdrw. The mounting works most likely thanks for the automounter that
is enabled in the kernel.

Assume you have it like this:
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrw udf,iso9660 noauto,users,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/dvd udf,iso9660 noauto,users,ro 0 0

Then change it to look like:
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrw udf,iso9660 noauto,users,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/dvd udf,iso9660 noauto,users,ro 0 0


That should fix you problem when ejecting.

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//Aho

"J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> wrote in message
news:5026csF1e3aq0U1@mid.individual.net...
> Poma wrote:
>
> > Mr. Genius.....Aho, Thank you soooooooo much for your assistance. I
entered
> > the above mentioned line. Now I recall earlier I gave "Defaults" as
> > permission. Now the GUI lists the cd and dvd drives. However, when the
cd
> > was in the cdrw drive and I gave eject command, the dvd tray came out
even
> > as the cdrw had the cd running. This wasn't the case earlier. Can you
pls
> > throw some light on this?
>
> You have mixed up the devices for dvd and cdrw, so when you eject the dvd
you
> eject the cdrw. The mounting works most likely thanks for the automounter
that
> is enabled in the kernel.
>
> Assume you have it like this:
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrw udf,iso9660 noauto,users,ro 0 0
> /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/dvd udf,iso9660 noauto,users,ro 0 0
>
> Then change it to look like:
> /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrw udf,iso9660 noauto,users,ro 0 0
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/dvd udf,iso9660 noauto,users,ro 0 0
>
>
> That should fix you problem when ejecting.
>
> --
>
> //Aho

Hi,
Thanks for the help. The fstab file does not list the above entries by
default in FC6 unlike in RH9 which I had earlier. FC6 or maybe even FC5 uses
the hal daemon to automount the cd drives. I had to reinstall FC again as
trying various methods only compounded the problem as the system showed 4 cd
drives.

Rgds Poms.

Poma wrote:

> Thanks for the help. The fstab file does not list the above entries by
> default in FC6 unlike in RH9 which I had earlier. FC6 or maybe even FC5 uses
> the hal daemon to automount the cd drives. I had to reinstall FC again as
> trying various methods only compounded the problem as the system showed 4 cd
> drives.

The use of udev and hal nowadays generates a lot of troubles, udev assigns all
my device links to a random CD/DVD unit, this get worse with the newer
versions of udev. Feels like the distros are heading toward the microsoft
world where you don't know if it works or not, what it will do if it works,
this was IMHO better in the old days. :)

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//Aho

"J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> wrote in message
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> Poma wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the help. The fstab file does not list the above entries by
> > default in FC6 unlike in RH9 which I had earlier. FC6 or maybe even FC5
uses
> > the hal daemon to automount the cd drives. I had to reinstall FC again
as
> > trying various methods only compounded the problem as the system showed
4 cd
> > drives.
>
> The use of udev and hal nowadays generates a lot of troubles, udev assigns
all
> my device links to a random CD/DVD unit, this get worse with the newer
> versions of udev. Feels like the distros are heading toward the microsoft
> world where you don't know if it works or not, what it will do if it
works,
> this was IMHO better in the old days. :)
>
> --
>
> //Aho

Even my guess is somewhat like yours as going by the difficulties that users
face while installing or using some programs show.

Now another problem which I'm posting separately.

Thanks. Poms