Debugging problems on SuSE 9.3

[Kenneth Pronovici <kenneth.pronovici@cedar-solutions.com>]

User Dag Rende reports on how he solved an I/O error on his SuSE 9.3
Linux machine:

> I had some problems that was reposrted as IO error when validating
> the burned files.  i was misled by the system log by lines like
> 
>   Aug 14 12:16:17 gong2 kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
>   Aug 14 12:16:17 gong2 kernel: hda: rw=0, want=26076, limit=25856
> 
> after a cback logging of
> 
>   2005-08-14T12:16:17 CEST --> [ERROR  ] I/O error encountered during consistency check.
>   2005-08-14T12:16:17 CEST --> [ERROR  ] Error executing backup: [Errno 5] Input/output error

He solved this with two steps.  First, he turned off CD automounting by
creating a new file called:

      /usr/share/hal/fdi/95userpolicy/noautomountcd.fdi

containing:
  
     <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
     <!-- This .fdi file prevent automount for every media (storage devices)
          e.g. floppy, CD/DVD, USB-Stick, USB-Disk, external harddisk. -->
     <deviceinfo version="0.2">
        <device>
           <match key="block.device" string="/dev/hda">
              <match key="storage.policy.should_mount" bool="true">
                 <merge key="storage.policy.should_mount" type="bool">false</merge>
              </match>
           </match>
        </device>
     </deviceinfo>

Then, he changed one line in /etc/fstab, from this:

   /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder       subfs   noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0

to this:

  /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder       auto    noauto,ro,user,exec,iocharset=utf8    0 0

That solved his problem.

KEN

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Kenneth J. Pronovici <pronovic@ieee.org>
http://www.cedar-solutions.com/


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