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PostPosted: Fri May 10, 2013 8:04 pm    Post subject: K3b problem Reply with quote

K3b cannot find any optical drive on my system. I can put any dvd in it and it doesn't see it. It is there in /etc/fstab, but I can't mount it.

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PostPosted: Fri May 10, 2013 11:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi mark2.

You don't have to list the DVD device into your fstab, only then the auto-mounter is able to catch this device.

Additionally, if you're using KDE, you should check the right settings of the auto-mounter dialogue to your needs too.

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PostPosted: Tue May 14, 2013 7:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I should have been a bit more specific. It is not just K3b that cannot see the disk, but the whole system. It does not show up in Dolphin File manager. And whether I comment it out in /etc/fstab or not, it makes no difference. If I say:
Code:
mount /dev/cdrom

It comes back with:
Code:
mount: can't find cdrom in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

And the same goes for dvd. I do have both in my USE flags, so it doesn't make any sense.

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PostPosted: Tue May 14, 2013 8:14 pm    Post subject: k3b problem Reply with quote

Did you check in the kernel configuration whether the cdrom and dvd filesystems are configured.

Please post your fstab too.
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PostPosted: Wed May 15, 2013 10:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mark2,

shortly found, this very helpful wiki with further information, to more of the needed preconditions, depending on your preferred userland:
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Removable_media

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PostPosted: Wed May 15, 2013 9:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

@roland.graf
The cdrom and dvd filesystems are configured.
The fstab is:
Code:
no# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# noatime turns off atimes for increased performance (atimes normally aren't
# needed); notail increases performance of ReiserFS (at the expense of storage
# efficiency).  It's safe to drop the noatime options if you want and to
# switch between notail / tail freely.
#
# The root filesystem should have a pass number of either 0 or 1.
# All other filesystems should have a pass number of 0 or greater than 1.
#
# See the manpage fstab(5) for more information.
#

# <fs>         <mountpoint>   <type>      <opts>      <dump/pass>

# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
/dev/sda1      /boot      ext3      noauto,noatime   1 2
/dev/sda3      /      ext4      noatime      0 1
/dev/sda2      none      swap      sw      0 0
/dev/cdrom      /mnt/cdrom   auto      noauto,user   0 0
/dev/sdb1      /windows/C   vfat      noauto,user   0 0
# /dev/fd0      /mnt/floppy   auto      noauto      0 0


Randy
I am not able to make much sense on that link and when I tried to do rc-update show, I cannot copy the output from my xterm window to paste here.

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PostPosted: Thu May 16, 2013 1:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mark2 wrote:

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Randy
I am not able to make much sense on that link and when I tried to do rc-update show, I cannot copy the output from my xterm window to paste here.
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If you would follow every link on this site, you should notice that it makes sense for you. :wink:
Only two examples:

roland.graf already mentioned, that you should check your kernel configuration and I tried to point you more concrete to the relevant entries of my given subsites here:
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/CDROM

More hints given here: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Udisks

If you want to paste some output of your terminal, install wgetpaste
Code:
emerge wgetpaste

Then you could paste the output of rc-update e.g. with:
Code:
rc-update | wgetpaste
and tell us the given URL afterwards.

Much success, Andy.
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