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Re: unable to mount cd's



On Mon, August 2, 2004 at 8:34 a.m. "Steve Reindl" <sreindl@apci.net> wrote:
> Since upgrading to Fedora Core 2 I have been unable to mount any CD in
> any CDROM drive. I can insert an audio disk and KSCD will run and I can
> listen to it.
>
> here is the error ...
> [root@localhost root]# mount /mnt/cdrom
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
>        or too many mounted file systems
>
> here is my /etc/fstab
> [root@localhost etc]# cat fstab
> LABEL=/                 /                         ext3
> defaults        1 1
> LABEL=/boot          /boot                  ext3    defaults        1 2
> none                         /dev/pts              devpts
> gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> none                         /proc                  proc
> defaults        0 0
> none                         /dev/shm            tmpfs   defaults        0
> 0
> /dev/hda3                 swap                  swap    defaults        0
> 0
> /dev/fd0                    /mnt/floppy       auto    noauto,owner,kudzu 0
> 0
> /dev/hdb1                 /bigdisk             ext3    defaults        0 0
> /dev/cdrom               /mnt/cdrom       udf,iso9660
> user,unhide,noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
> /dev/cdrom1             /mnt/cdrom1     udf,iso9660
> user,unhide,noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
>
> [root@localhost etc]# cd /dev
> [root@localhost dev]# ls -ahl cdrom
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 8 Jun  3 22:23 cdrom -> /dev/hdc
>
> I removed the scsi emulation lines from /boot/grub/grub.conf
>
> I rebooted
>
> I have used known good CD's. When I issue the mount command the light on
> the correct drive flashes. Is this something in SELinux?

Steve,

If selinux is active, that could be. Try changing "user" to "users" in the
options section for /dev/cdrom. According to 'man mount', this allows
every user (not just an "ordinary" user) to mount/umount the filesystem.

If it's really selinux that's getting in the way, see:
https://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-selinux-list/2004-May/msg00019.html

--Doc

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