Cannot mount CD/DVD

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annaphase · Post by **annaphase** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 6:46 pm

I checked out the posts on similar topics, but none seems to have the exact problem I'm having...

When I put a CD or DVD in the appropriate drive (both my CDRW and DVD drives do this) I get an error message thusly: Error org.freedesktop.Hal.PermissionDenied.

This is new. I used to be able to do things with removable media, and it doesn't (strangely) seem to be associated with any updates.

I have tried movie DVDs, data DVDs, audio and data CDs, and blank media. None of it is recognized. The system recognizes the drives and up until I try to put media in them claims that they are working correctly. I am a user in all relevant groups (cdrom, cdrw...)

Any help is much appreciated. Thanks!

yngwin · Post by **yngwin** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 7:11 am

annaphase wrote:I am a user in all relevant groups (cdrom, cdrw...)

plugdev?

annaphase · Post by **annaphase** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 7:29 pm

qeldroma · Post by **qeldroma** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 3:51 pm

I've got the same!

HALD isn't working normally? I did a complete installation of gentoo with all corresponding use-flags(hal, dbus, ..) set.
Trying now out devices, i can't access cdrom or usb-devices via "kde-automount".

I get following message after the "what shall i do" dialog appears and i clicked on "open it":
A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected message had interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" member "Mount" error name "(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.Hal")

I reemerged kde-base, i re-emerged hal... nothing helped. And this user is now part of nearly every damned group on that host, it is nearly impossible, that there's a conjunction to the group-membership in here

Is it possible, that i now have to do something in the /etc/hal-directory? If yes, this is new to me. I never before did anything there...

Kind regards, Florian

yngwin · Post by **yngwin** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 6:55 pm

do you have pmount installed?

qeldroma · Post by **qeldroma** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 9:34 am

yngwin wrote:do you have pmount installed?

No. Just the same as my previous system:
hald and dbus, that's all...

AFAIK pmount is not needed at all, KDE self should be able to manage the mounting directly...

Florian

qeldroma · Post by **qeldroma** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 9:29 am

**PUSH**

piewie · Post by **piewie** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 4:53 pm

Can you mount as root?

yngwin · Post by **yngwin** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 4:56 pm

Try with pmount

longhorn49 · Post by **longhorn49** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 6:28 pm

Make sure the cdrom lisitng in /etc/fstab has the users option and iso9600 fs

sian · Post by **sian** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:17 pm

I do have the same problem. I can mount as root but not as regular user.

As user, I belong to the group plugdev, audio, cdrom.

I noticed that /mnt/cdrom belongs to root:root. I changed it to root:cdrom but nothing changed.

I am sure this is not difficult...

Veldrin · Post by **Veldrin** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:25 pm

I noticed that /mnt/cdrom belongs to root:root. I changed it to root:cdrom but nothing changed.

ownership of the mount point is not the problem, OTOH who owns the cdrom device (i.e /dev/hdX, /dev/sdX, /dev/sr#).

STEDevil · Post by **STEDevil** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 11:45 am

Latest HAL seems quite broken. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-41 ... ml#4143242

I tried the solution there of downgrading to previous version and everything works for me again.

shaumux · Post by **shaumux** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 1:13 pm

Dunno if this will help
but i got this error sometime ago and checked and saw that i was actually mounting something in the directory where HAL mounts disks.
So i umonuted and it worked like a charm

sian · Post by **sian** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 8:06 am

Unfortunately, this did not the trick for me. It works well as root but not for users

kekccc · Post by **kekccc** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 10:58 pm

I has the same problem.
It was /etc/fstab configuration trick.
By default the cdrom record is:
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro 0 0

You must add user option if you want users to be able to mount device:
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,ro 0 0

I hope that this is helpful.

the_blackraider · Post by **the_blackraider** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 7:23 pm

Add your regular user to plugdev group and things should go normal again. This works for me.

Regards. blackraider.

pycior · Post by **pycior** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 7:48 pm

try emerging ~x86/~amd64/~whatever dbus hal kdebase-kioslaves
and get rid of the cdrom line in you fstab; worked for me like a charm ;]

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pytooli · Post by **pytooli** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 1:42 pm

Hey kekccc I put

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You must add user option if you want users to be able to mount device:
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,ro 0 0

and it works fine!
Thanks

bobber205 · Post by **bobber205** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 11:13 pm

Making sure I was in plugdev (wasn't before) and adding the users options sure helped!

stan666 · Post by **stan666** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 8:50 am

check the permissions of your mount-command, it should look like this

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-rws--x--x 1 root root 96328 28. Jul 14:37 /bin/mount

mount shoud be setuid!

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