Cannot mount CD/DVD

[annaphase]

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]

[annaphase]

yes

[qeldroma]

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]

do you have pmount installed?
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[qeldroma]

[qeldroma]

**PUSH**

[piewie]

Can you mount as root?

[yngwin]

Try with pmount
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[longhorn49]

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

[sian]

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...
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[Veldrin]

[STEDevil]

Latest HAL seems quite broken. https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4143242.html#4143242

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

[shaumux]

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]

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

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]

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

Regards. blackraider.

[pycior]

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]

Hey kekccc I put

[bobber205]

Making sure I was in plugdev (wasn't before) and adding the users options sure helped!
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[stan666]

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