Gnome does not recognize CDROM

[h2sammo]

how can i make it recognize my disks as i put them inside, w/out a terminal command?

btw, i tried:

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localhost bobby # mount /dev/cdrom
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

do i have to specify a filesystem everytime i put a cd/dvd inside?

my fstab:

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  GNU nano 2.1.9                      File: /etc/fstab                                                    

# /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/hda1               /boot           ext2            defaults,noatime        1 2
/dev/hda2               none            swap            sw                      0 0
/dev/hda3               /               ext3            noatime                 0 1
/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom      auto            noauto,user             0 0
#/dev/fd0               /mnt/floppy     auto            noauto                  0 0

# glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
# POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink).
# (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
#  use almost no memory if not populated with files)
shm                     /dev/shm        tmpfs           nodev,nosuid,noexec     0 0

[krinn]

add -t iso9660 or change it in fstab to iso9660, for automounting in gnome i think you should instead comment out the cdrom line in your fstab.

[Apopatos]

Comment out the cdrom line in fstab and run hal daemon with /etc/init.d/hald start .

[h2sammo]

ok i commented that cdrom bit out but the same result.

gnome (nor kde) can see my cdrom when i put something in it. kde used to pick it up, i had installed some software from disk from within kde in the past.
can someone run me through a diagnostic?

[Clad in Sky]

Try to re-emerge gnome-volume-manager with/ without the automount USE flag.

Before that you might want to check if you have the System → Preferences → Removable Drives and Media set to your needs.
Another nice place to look at is
Applications → System Tools → Configuration Editor → Apps → Nautilus → Preferences
There's a checkbox for automount media - is it checked?

[yngwin]

Check if your kernel has support for the filesystem on the CD:

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CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y
CONFIG_JOLIET=y
CONFIG_ZISOFS=y
CONFIG_UDF_FS=y
CONFIG_UDF_NLS=y

[jamatik]

Which is your hal version??
can be that you have to change a polkit-auth if you have the recent one with USE="+policykit".
had a problem, too. but with automounting crypted fixed devices in gnome with new hal+policykit

polkit-gnome-authorization
not working: admin auth + allow my username (default:just did nothing)
working: setting admin auth (..) to yes for active console for rules in question

[h2sammo]

im using kde and gnome interchangeably. do you mean i shoudl re-emerge hal with use policykit enabled?

my hal

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*  sys-apps/hal
      Latest version available: 0.5.12_rc1-r1
      Latest version installed: 0.5.12_rc1-r1
      Size of files: 1,136 kB
      Homepage:      http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/hal
      Description:   Hardware Abstraction Layer
      License:       || ( GPL-2 AFL-2.0 )

[jamatik]

No. be sure to be in the plugdev group and try if automounting works with hal 0.5.11-r8