[Mageia-dev] Mounting a CDROM problem

Thu Feb 16 10:49:26 CET 2012

On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 09:39 +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+> 'Twas brillig, and Robert Fox at 16/02/12 09:20 did gyre and gimble:
+> > Using latest Cauldron - I get this error when trying to mount a normal
+> > CDROM under KDE Konqueror
+> > 
+> > An error occurred while accessing 'CISSP 5th Editio', the system
+> > responded: The requested operation has failed.: Error mounting: mount
+> > exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
+> > mount: mount point /media/cdrom does not exist
+> > 
+> > What could this be?
+> 
+> KDE should create mountpoints as needed (and it shouldn't really use a
+> fixed name "cdrom" here either).
+> 
+> Are you somehow still using HAL? Can you try stopping hald and see if
+> things flip over to using a proper system?
+> 
+> Otherwise we'll have to put a hack in somewhere to create /media/cdrom
+> directory to cope with this limitation.
+> 
+> Col
+> 
+> 
+
+Thanks for the fast response Col - I do still have hal installed, and I
+stopped hald, but didn't seem to help.  BTW, it's safe to use
+"drakxservices" to start and stop services even though we are using
+systemd now, right??
+
+Cheers,
+Robert
+
+