I can't mount the cdrom when the user account has an nfs home directory. It works fine on the gnome side with the same user. It also works fine if I create a brand new local account, with no nfs mounted home directory.
This error is affecting all users on all computers; not just one account. The one thing in common is that they all are using nfs mounted home directories and that CentOS is the distro. Older systems that are still using fc3 dont have this issue.
Any ideas? Suggestions?
On Dec 4, 2006, at 13:40, Jean Figarella wrote:
I can't mount the cdrom when the user account has an nfs home directory. It works fine on the gnome side with the same user. It also works fine if I create a brand new local account, with no nfs mounted home directory.
Can you not mount the CDROM at all or does it merely not auto-mount? I have the latter problem, which is a little annoying at times. Doing a "mount /media/cdrom" as root mounts the CDROM and puts it on the Desktop of the currently logged in Gnome user. I never made the correlation with having an NFS mounted home directory. In our environment, root can not access (read or write) the users' home directories.
Alfred
Ok this is my sequence,
I put a cd on the drive, then close it. It never automounts. So I click (double click) on the cd icon that is always on the desktop and then I get this error: mount: block device /dev/hdc is write, protected, mounting read-only mount: /dev/hdc already mounted or /media/cdrom busy Please check that the disk is entered correctly
And nothing happens.
Then if I do open a shell and as root I do mount /media/cdrom, it does mount the cd and then I can access it from konqueror.
Again, the whole process works fine under gnome, no need to mount cd as root, the gui will mount it for you. But under kde it just does not work.
I don't know if this is related to nfs or not, but this (nfs), they are part of my network's users, and that they are using centos is the only thing in common.
Thanks Alfred
- Jean
Alfred von Campe wrote:
On Dec 4, 2006, at 13:40, Jean Figarella wrote:
I can't mount the cdrom when the user account has an nfs home directory. It works fine on the gnome side with the same user. It also works fine if I create a brand new local account, with no nfs mounted home directory.
Can you not mount the CDROM at all or does it merely not auto-mount? I have the latter problem, which is a little annoying at times. Doing a "mount /media/cdrom" as root mounts the CDROM and puts it on the Desktop of the currently logged in Gnome user. I never made the correlation with having an NFS mounted home directory. In our environment, root can not access (read or write) the users' home directories.
Alfred
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i had a similar issue the other day with a file server i was setting up, it was solved by specifically mounting the type of drive that i was using:
mount -t vfat
before the mount paths
hope that helps.
Noah
Alfred von Campe wrote:
On Dec 4, 2006, at 13:40, Jean Figarella wrote:
I can't mount the cdrom when the user account has an nfs home directory. It works fine on the gnome side with the same user. It also works fine if I create a brand new local account, with no nfs mounted home directory.
Can you not mount the CDROM at all or does it merely not auto-mount? I have the latter problem, which is a little annoying at times. Doing a "mount /media/cdrom" as root mounts the CDROM and puts it on the Desktop of the currently logged in Gnome user. I never made the correlation with having an NFS mounted home directory. In our environment, root can not access (read or write) the users' home directories.
Alfred
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 13:40 -0500, Jean Figarella wrote:
I can't mount the cdrom when the user account has an nfs home directory. It works fine on the gnome side with the same user. It also works fine if I create a brand new local account, with no nfs mounted home directory.
This error is affecting all users on all computers; not just one account. The one thing in common is that they all are using nfs mounted home directories and that CentOS is the distro. Older systems that are still using fc3 dont have this issue.
Any ideas? Suggestions? _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Hi Jean,
This is just a "me too". I've just observed the same issue on RHEL 4. What's worse is that once the user has tried to mount the CD they can't eject it without superuser intervention (from the GUI or the button on the CD drive).
-Steve
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