PermissionDenied Error when entry for optical drives in /etc/fstab

[David Zeuthen]

On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 11:41 +0200, Joerg Doll wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using Gnome 2.14 and hal 0.5.7.1. The main problem is that no icon
> for dvds/cds is created when i put them into my optical drive. For my
> hard disc it works perfectly. So my settings in gnome seems not to be
> the problem.
> 
> After running hald from console with "hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes" I
> get this error message when closing the optical drive containing a dvd/cd.

The latest gnome-mount from CVS handles this by invoking mount(1) if HAL
refuses to do the mounting. And, indeed, HAL will refuse to mount if a
device is mentioned in the /etc/fstab. Because doing so would violate
the intents of the system administrator.

    David