This is what I get when I try to read a cdrom-

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")


This is what my /etc/fstab looks like

/dev/hda1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
#/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

Any comments welcome

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