"You are not privileged to mount the volume 'CDROM'."

Michael A. Peters mpeters at mac.com
Wed Apr 19 01:09:24 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 20:51 -0400, Pierre Sarrazin wrote:
> When I insert a data CDROM, my Fedora 5 system (recently upgraded
> from Fedora 3) pops a dialog saying this:
> 
>     Cannot mount volume
> 
>     You are not privileged to mount the volume 'CDROM'.
> 
>                                                [ OK ]
> 
> I can mount the CD from a non-privileged command-line shell
> with 'mount /mnt/cdrom'.
> 
> My /etc/fstab file contains this line:
> 
> /dev/cdrom      /mnt/cdrom      iso9660 noauto,ro,user  0 0

remove that line.
fc5 no longer uses an fstab entry for CDROM devices.
It should work once you yank it.




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