On 29 April 2008, Alan Bartlett ajb.stxsl at googlemail.com wrote <snip>
2008/4/29 Lanny Marcus <lannyma at gmail.com>:
[root at dell1602 ~]# grep ^hdc /var/log/dmesg hdc: DV-516D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: ATAPI 50X DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, UDMA(100) [root at dell1602 ~]#
Good(-ish). The optical device is there but it's an old combo CD/DVD-ROM drive.
Then looked at the symbolic links? ls -l /dev/ | grep hdc
[root at dell1602 ~]# ls -l /dev/ | grep hdc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 29 12:30 cdrom-hdc -> hdc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 29 12:30 dvd -> hdc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 29 12:30 dvd-hdc -> hdc brw------- 1 lanny disk 22, 0 Apr 29 12:30 hdc [root at dell1602 ~]#
Good. That's o.k. also.
I just updated the hal rpm on the box with the problem and I did a restart of the box after that.
hald (pid 2069) is running...
Good, again.
I don't know if this will be any use - http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/HAL
Alan: I will check that out! Thanks much! Lanny
Did I see that you are still running a very out of date kernel? Of the 2.6.18-8.m.n series? Any particular reason?
We didn't have ADSL before and I have been selectively updating rpms. That box is now running kernel 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 :-)
The problem still exists, after the kernel update, and as someone else suggested, I will probably post on the GNOME list for any ideas someone there might have. Neither of the GNOME modules mentioned in the TipsAndTricks/HAL article that you mentioned above are available for update: (a) gnome-volume-manager and (b) gnome-mount
When I updated the kernel, I also updated hwdata and kudzu.
If we knew what is causing this to happen, there could be a fix, but it remains a mystery.
Thanks much! Lanny
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Lanny Marcus