DVD won't mount until I run K3B

BinFarteen · 02-03-2006, 06:59 AM

^ That's pretty much it in a nutshell, I can't mount a DVD in Suse 10 until I start up K3B, then the desktop icon appears, Totem starts, I can browse it from Nautilus etc.

Probably something simple eh?

yogeshm02 · 02-03-2006, 08:33 AM

Check /etc/fstab

Entry for your dvd device must have 'user' in it.

Here is what i have in my /etc/fstab

Code:

/dev/dvd             /media/dvd           subfs      noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8,user 0 0

You'll need root access to write to the file and be sure not to alter anything else. Also make a backup of fstab.

This will hopefully solve your problem.

BinFarteen · 02-03-2006, 09:31 AM

Thanks...

"user" wasn't there, I added it to all three, still doesn't mount.

Code:

/dev/cdrom           /media/cdrom         subfs      noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8,user 0 0
/dev/cdrecorder      /media/              subfs      noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8,user 0 0
/dev/hdc             /media/cdrom         subfs      noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8,user 0 0

yogeshm02 · 02-04-2006, 12:07 AM

So, what does
mount /dev/cdrom
and
mount /dev/recorder
output?

BinFarteen · 02-04-2006, 01:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by yogeshm02

So, what does
mount /dev/cdrom
and
mount /dev/recorder
output?

They output nothing, just return to the prompt.

yogeshm02 · 02-11-2006, 09:28 AM

Sorry for late reply.

Quote:

Originally Posted by BinFarteen

They output nothing, just return to the prompt.

That means DVD is mounted correctly. May be Nautilus is not trying to mount it. I have never used Gnome, so cann't help you further.