Re: Sarge/Gnome - cdrom0 disappears on reboot and grip locks up

[Jonathan Kaye <jonathan.kaye@univie.ac.at>]

Jack Dodds wrote:

> I am using Debian Sarge with Gnome on a P4 with an IDE CD-R drive.
> 
> If I open the "Computer" icon and click on the "CD ROM 1" icon, I get a
> message
> 
> "Unable to mount the selected volume - mount: mount point /media/cdrom0
> does not exist".
> 
> If I use a root terminal to create directory /media/cdrom0, then I am
> able to mount the CD.
> 
> However, if I reboot, /media/cdrom0 disappears!
> 
> My /etc/fstab contains:
> 
> /dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
> 
> Also. I am having strange problems when I use grip, which may or may not
> be related to the first problem.
> Sometimes both grip and gnome-cd lock up and cannot be deleted even by
> using a kill -9.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Jack Dodds
Hi Jack,
This is an old problem which has been discussed at length in this
newsgroup/list. Check the archives and you'll find ample discussion.
Cheers,
Jonathan