Cannot mount Drives

Tactical Fart · n00b Joined: 27 Aug 2007 Posts: 37

After a complete install, and after using "emerge -vG kdebase", I tried to get into my External Hard Drive. I can't seem to get it to appear. I got it to work once, but it I don't know how, and it was read only, plus I messed something up and did a clean install. Under "Storage Media", I see 4 icons: DVD (sro), Hard Disk (sda1), Hard Disk (sdc1), and Hard Disk (sdd1)(this is w/ my external drive connected.) Whenever I click on them (except sda1), It says Feature only available with HAL". I tried "emerge HAL" and it said there are no ebuilds to satisfy it, so I tried "emerge hal", and even though it found one, it failed. How can I access my drives and write to them? I'm a noob, and am slowly grasping linux, but am too stubborn to give up.
Would it help if I posted my fstab?

Side question: how do you pronounce "gentoo"? This is driving me crazy.

mattsteven · Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 6:17 pm Post subject:

Tactical Fart · n00b Joined: 27 Aug 2007 Posts: 37

I not sure what "euse -E hal" does, but I think it worked. when I used the next command though it gave me the following message.

localhost ~ # emerge -uD --newuse world
Calculating world dependencies... done!

!!! Error: the =app-dicts/aspell-en-0.5* package conflicts with another package;
!!! the two packages cannot be installed on the same system together.
!!! Please use 'emerge --pretend' to determine blockers.

For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the following
section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant):

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked

I used "emerge gentoolkit" and it was completly sucessful, but I don't know how to launch it.

Also, out of curiosity, I used "mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom" and was sucessful in reading a dvd, though I don't have VLC running yet.

If It helps anyone, here's my fstab.

GNU nano 2.0.4 File: /etc/fstab Modified

/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/sda1 / ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 1
/dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
/dev/sdc1 /mnt/memstick auto noauto 0 0
/dev/sdd1 /mnt/sd auto noauto 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0

proc /proc proc defaults 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
none /spu spufs default 0 0
(this is a cut and paste, no editing)

In the line for sda2, I have for my dump/pass 0 1, when it should be 0 0. while typing this message I corrected it and the machine offered to mount the newly detected drtive. I said yes, and I got the "feature only available with HAL" error again.

I can't wait to hear what I'm doing wrong so I can kick myself repeadedly. (on the first 7 times I installed Gentoo, I didn't delete the # in front of XSESSION in the rc.conf, and hence couldn't get fluxbox. :lol:

)

mattsteven · Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 9:59 pm Post subject:

hal is "hardware layer abstraction support" which I don't use, but I assume it makes it easy for KDE to automagically mount your media.

You can always mount devices "by hand" as well as you discovered. The thing that gets some new users is that by default Linux systems do not mount when media is loaded, you have to tell it to.

For your merge problem, just follow the directions they gave you: "Please use 'emerge --pretend' to determine blockers. "

Then when you unmerge the blocking package, run the update command again.
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Redhatter · Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 11:04 pm Post subject:

(Why on earth is this in Alternate Architectures?)

I find the easiest way to set up drives, when you're getting used to Linux, is to do it manually using the mount command run from sudo (app-admin/sudo):

Tactical Fart · n00b Joined: 27 Aug 2007 Posts: 37

[quote="Redhatter"](Why on earth is this in Alternate Architectures?) /quote]
This is on my PS3

Anyway I managed to mount my External Hard Drive using "mount /dev/sdf /mnt/external" and now I can explore it. But when I try to write it simply says, could not write to (insert directory here). Writing is the only problem I'm having right now. I typed dmesg and I got
"FAT: Filesystem panic (dev sdf1)
invalid access to FAT (entry 0x40af4a7b)"
Which repeats several times, but with different numbers, and
"attempt to access beyond end of device
sdf1: rw=0, want=74179675420, limit=488392002"
Which also repeats, but only the limit remains constant. If there a special command that I need to use?

Also I 'm not sure it matters, but It's a 250GB drive.

I managed to get my sd card to read and write though. I used "mount /dev/sdd /mnt/sd" and now I can read and write at will. My external hard drive is the only one giving me problems.

Redhatter · Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:23 pm Post subject:

Hmmm... PS3 or not... still it isn't really a discussion about the architecture, but rather one about mounting disks in general. Thus it may be worthwhile getting a mod to move this thread to a more appropriate forum.

When it says "could not write to $DIRECTORY", what reason does it give? I/O Error? Permission Denied? No space left on device?

If the dmesg output is showing messages about trying to access beyond the end of the device, this could mean two things:
o Funny partition table -- fix by backing up, repartitioning, then reformatting
o Incorrectly detected size -- not sure of a fix.

What does /sys/block/sdf/size and fdisk -ul /dev/sdf report? Using my internal IDE HDD (on a Lemote Fulong; concept is the same though):

mimosinnet · Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 11:19 am Post subject:

I am having the same issues with hal, and I have followed the advice from the forum:

I have hal as a useflag:

johnny99 · Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 5:52 am Post subject:

I'm in the same boat. Manual mount works, kde reacts to an inserted cd, but when I try to open in Konqueror, "Feature only available with HAL". Do I need to rebuild something?

kgroombr · n00b Joined: 23 Jul 2007 Posts: 26

I am getting this same problem. I have the hal useflag set and an "emerge -DNvu world" shows nothing needs to be rebuilt, but I get the message "feature only available with HAL" when attempting to eject CDs. It might come up when trying to do other things, but since it just came up, I am googling for an answer.

Ken

step · Apprentice Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 198

Just (re)emerge HAL

emerge sys-apps/hal -atv

start HAL daemon
/etc/init.d/hald start

launch Konqueror and test it. (select USB, DVD, CD etc)

If it works OK, run:
rc-update add hald default

OPelerin · Guru Joined: 17 Jul 2004 Posts: 354 Location: Belgium

Cheers.

I had the same wierd issue. I've re-emerged hal and now things are fine again. Thanks for the trick.
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