<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> On 07/13/2009 03:36 PM, William Case wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:1247524585.2262.5.camel@CASE" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi Jack; On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 13:38 -0700, jack craig wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On 07/13/2009 01:28 PM, William Case wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi; Up to yesterday I could put a disk in my CD/DVD drive and it would automatically be mounted. Today 'mount' command and other gui stuff (like Computer in Gnome) can't find it. BIOS still shows it. lshw shows it. What happened? Did I inadvertently mess something up? How do I fix it? It was never in fstab (as far as I remember) and I am reluctant to try adding it. </pre> </blockquote> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">also, i'd look in /var/log/. for mount related errors... </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> $ dmesg | grep sr0 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 32x/40x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray sr 1:0:1:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 sr 1:0:1:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE,SUGGEST_OK sr 1:0:1:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current] sr 1:0:1:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Illegal mode for this track end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 870656 Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 217664 Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 217665 Is this a SELinux block? I have disabled SELinux until I get a week or so to decipher its policy rules. I just upgraded a SELinux policy patch. Could that be causing the problem? </pre> </blockquote> not from this snippet, the illegal request implies media/drive issue. what happens if you try a different media in your drive? maybe a media you have successfully mounted before? if it were selinux, i think you'd see an error in /var/log/secure or the setroubleshooting app. see how it chokes on block errors? any chance there is dirt or a smudge on the media over those tracks? <pre class="moz-signature" cols="120">-- jack craig <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jackc@LinuxLightHouse.com">jackc@LinuxLightHouse.com</a> 831-684-1375 (Office) 831-596-6924 (cell) IM: jackcraigaptos (AIM) </pre> </body> </html>