Mount Help

[scm]

You can't unmount a filesystem if a process is using it (ie, someone's cd-ed into one of its subdirectories). eject with no arguments will try to umount /dev/cdrom, so if you haven't symlinked that to your /dev/hdc (or d, or whatever) it won't work.

As to why your manual mount didn't work - are you mounting a valid data CDROM (not an audio CD)?

[zer0ed77]

Well, I was trying to play a CD-R which had music on it.

I have been playing around and logged in as root, and popped in a REAL audio CD. The CD began to play automatically. I hope this works under my regular user account.


As for the other stuff, like symlink or whatever, I have no idea what you guys are talking about. I am somewhat of a newbie to Linux when it comes to having to manually do everything.

[zer0ed77]

Okay...

Logged on as regular user.

CDROM NOT working. As root it autoplays and works, even though it does no good since I have no sound.

This is obviously a permissions problem. Any help?

Thanks for being patient guys.

I AM LEARNING A LOT!!!

[scm]

Check the permissions on /dev/hdc, it'll probably be rw only for owner, which will be root, group disk. You can change it by "chmod 666 /dev/hdc" (as root), or (what I did) "chown fred /dev/hdc" where fred is the name of the user you're running as (this'll be fine if you're the only non-root user on the machine).

Also as root, you can "ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom" to add a symbolic link for the cdrom so eject will work for you.

You're nearly there!
Steve

[the_unforgiven]

Does it have anything to do with SELinux???
I have a strong feeling the problems are related to SELinux...

Check this for more info on SELinux on FC3:
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-faq-fc3/

[zer0ed77]

Check the permissions on /dev/hdc, it'll probably be rw only for owner, which will be root, group disk. You can change it by "chmod 666 /dev/hdc" (as root), or (what I did) "chown fred /dev/hdc" where fred is the name of the user you're running as (this'll be fine if you're the only non-root user on the machine).

Also as root, you can "ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom" to add a symbolic link for the cdrom so eject will work for you.

You're nearly there!
Steve

Okay...

I chmod 666 like you said, and still no luck. I don't get this. Almost everything, except for sound, works as root.

Maybe this is related to SELinux, but I disabled ENFORCING, and still no luck.

I think I'll just reformat my machine with F.C.4 when it is released, or go back to Mandriva (EVERYTHING worked).

This is more hassel than it is worth.

[tarun]

have a try at this:

chmod 777 /dev/hdc
ln -s /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom

after doing this u will be able to mount n eject the cdrom from user mode no need to login to root.

about sound see if the Cd-fine or is there any sound device application already running such an instance of media player already playing