LinuxQuestions.org - automount: mount(generic): failed to mount (null) (type iso9660) on /mnt/media/

Hi, I am trying to get automounting to work on my Slackware 10.0 box so it's a bit friendlier as a home workstation, which is how I am using it. (It is not a server). Mounting my CD-ROMs by hand is a pain and shouldn't be necessary in this day and age!

I followed the advice given in this thread:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...postid=1149234

but it still is not working for me. The daemon is running:

Code:

root@radhagovinda:/mnt/media# ps -ef | grep auto

root      3059    1  0 18:52 pts/2    00:00:00 /usr/sbin/automount -p /var/run/automount.pid -t 3 /mnt/media file /etc/auto.media -timeout=3

but whenever I try to access an automounted device, I get some information in the log file /var/log/messages like this:

Code:

Oct 17 18:53:18 radhagovinda automount[3059]: attempting to mount entry /mnt/media/cdrom0

Oct 17 18:53:18 radhagovinda automount[3072]: >> Usage: mount -V                : print version

Oct 17 18:53:18 radhagovinda automount[3072]: >>        mount -h                : print this help

Oct 17 18:53:18 radhagovinda automount[3072]: >>        mount                    : list mounted filesystems

Oct 17 18:53:18 radhagovinda automount[3072]: >>        mount -l                : idem, including volume labels

Oct 17 18:53:18 radhagovinda automount[3072]: >> So far the informational part. Next the mounting.

Oct 17 18:53:18 radhagovinda automount[3072]: >> The command is `mount [-t fstype] something somewhere'.

Oct 17 18:53:18 radhagovinda automount[3072]: >> Details found in /etc/fstab may be omitted.

Oct 17 18:53:18 radhagovinda automount[3072]: >>        mount -a [-t|-O] ...    : mount all stuff from /etc/fstab

Oct 17 18:53:18 radhagovinda automount[3072]: >>        mount device            : mount device at the known place

Oct 17 18:53:18 radhagovinda automount[3072]: >>        mount directory          : mount known device here

Oct 17 18:53:18 radhagovinda automount[3072]: >>        mount -t type dev dir    : ordinary mount command

Oct 17 18:53:18 radhagovinda automount[3072]: >> Note that one does not really mount a device, one mounts

Oct 17 18:53:18 radhagovinda automount[3072]: >> a filesystem (of the given type) found on the device.

Oct 17 18:53:18 radhagovinda automount[3072]: >> One can also mount an already visible directory tree elsewhere:

Oct 17 18:53:18 radhagovinda automount[3072]: >>        mount --bind olddir newdir

Oct 17 18:53:18 radhagovinda automount[3072]: >> or move a subtree:

Oct 17 18:53:18 radhagovinda automount[3072]: >>        mount --move olddir newdir

Oct 17 18:53:18 radhagovinda automount[3072]: >> A device can be given by name, say /dev/hda1 or /dev/cdrom,

Oct 17 18:53:18 radhagovinda automount[3072]: >> or by label, using  -L label  or by uuid, using  -U uuid .

Oct 17 18:53:18 radhagovinda automount[3072]: >> Other options: [-nfFrsvw] [-o options] [-p passwdfd].

Oct 17 18:53:18 radhagovinda automount[3072]: >> For many more details, say  man 8 mount .

Oct 17 18:53:18 radhagovinda automount[3072]: mount(generic): failed to mount (null) (type iso9660) on /mnt/media/cdrom0

which looks very helpful but turns out, on closer inspection, not to be any help at all!

My configuration files are:

/etc/auto.master:

Code:

# /etc/auto.master

#

/mnt/media /etc/auto.media --timeout=3

/etc/auto.media:

Code:

# /etc/auto.media

#

floppy -fstype=vfat,sync,user,umask=002,gid=users :/dev/fd0

cdrom0 -fstype=iso9660,ro:/dev/hda

cdrom1 -fstype=iso9660,ro:/dev/hdb

Any tips on what to look for/try/read will be very gratefully received! Thanks for reading this.