Can no longer browse or 'ls' CD or DVD disks.

[new2nix]

I can still play Movie DVD's, or listen to audio CD's on my DVD drive, and CD drive. I can not <cd> to those drives and list the files, or use "my computer" or "konquer" to browse data files on them.

Does anyone have any reason this happened or how to fix it?

I'm using Suse 10.1 64 bit and KDE

[Zelmo]

You probably just need to mount the disk.

[new2nix]

I don't think it is a mount problem.

1)
The "My computer" icon in KDE not only shows the drive, but also the name of whatever CD or DVD is in the drive.

2)
As the first post says, linux, can play audio CD's and movie DVDs'.

3) I can see the CD or DVD drive under /mount
/media>ls -al
total 1
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 112 2006-08-24 11:10 .
drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 592 2006-08-28 09:56 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2006-08-16 15:59 cdrecorder
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2006-08-16 15:59 dvdrecorder


when I cd to the drive,
>cd cdrecorder/
>ls -al
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2006-08-16 15:59 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 112 2006-08-24 11:10 ..

That's all that shows up

If I click the drive in KDE's mycomputer icon I get permission denied.

[CodeRoot]

I don't think it is a mount problem.

Actually, this looks very much like a mount problem - if you don't have some form of "auto-mount" (i.e., udev) running on your system.

Your 'ls' output from your previous post looks like a mount point that has nothing mounted on it (normally an empty directory).

Whatever programs you are running [that work] may be (probably are) handling the mount/unmount operations for you automatically.

Try mounting '/media/cdrecorder' or '/media/dvdrecorder' manually:

mount /media/cdrecorder
mount /media/dvdrecorder

or try re-mounting everything:

mount -a

Otherwise, please post the '*recorder' lines of your '/etc/fstab' file.

(Or the whole file, if you wish...)

[Zelmo]

Dangit, CodeRoot beat me to it.

[CodeRoot]

Dangit, CodeRoot beat me to it.

Don't worry -- you'll probably get the next one...

EDIT:
And I am usually a little slower than most in getting a post written...

[new2nix]

Actually, this looks very much like a mount problem - if you don't have some form of "auto-mount" (i.e., udev) running on your system.

Your 'ls' output from your previous post looks like a mount point that has nothing mounted on it (normally an empty directory).

Whatever programs you are running [that work] may be (probably are) handling the mount/unmount operations for you automatically.

Try mounting '/media/cdrecorder' or '/media/dvdrecorder' manually:

mount /media/cdrecorder
mount /media/dvdrecorder

or try re-mounting everything:

mount -a

Otherwise, please post the '*recorder' lines of your '/etc/fstab' file.

(Or the whole file, if you wish...)

I was asuming that since the name of the disk was shown, the disk was mounted. I must be wrong. Thanks for the reply,

Here's the output of mount;

# mount /media/cdrecorder
mount: unknown filesystem type 'subfs'

No joy.

Here's the CD / DVD section of fstab;

# cat /etc/fstab

/dev/hdc             /media/dvdrecorder   subfs      noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/hdd             /media/cdrecorder    subfs      noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0

[CodeRoot]

Based on the fact that in your original post, you said "I can still..." - I am guessing that perhaps you may have udev, but it is not running...

As a check - what does this yield?:

ls -ld /etc/udev /etc/init.d/boot.udev /usr/bin/udevinfo /sbin/udev*

[new2nix]

Based on the fact that in your original post, you said "I can still..." - I am guessing that perhaps you may have udev, but it is not running...

As a check - what does this yield?:

ls -ld /etc/udev /etc/init.d/boot.udev /usr/bin/udevinfo /sbin/udev*

As requested;


# ls -ld /etc/udev /etc/init.d/boot.udev /usr/bin/udevinfo /sbin/udev*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1832 2006-05-02 02:46 /etc/init.d/boot.udev
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 104 2006-04-22 21:53 /etc/udev
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15472 2006-05-02 02:46 /sbin/udevcontrol
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 65472 2006-05-02 02:46 /sbin/udevd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 19808 2006-05-02 02:46 /sbin/udevsettle
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 20640 2006-05-02 02:46 /sbin/udevtrigger
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 54760 2006-05-02 02:46 /usr/bin/udevinfo


What does that mean?

[CodeRoot]

What do these commands yield? (as root):

grep subfs /proc/modules /proc/mounts /var/log/boot.msg 
grep subfs /var/log/messages | tail
grep subfs /var/log/warn | tail
udevinfo -d | grep -A 6 block
ls -al /sys/block/hd*