Problem with amd (automount daemon)

[David Fleck]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Ernst de Haan wrote:

> Still haven't completely figured out what the solution is, but I think I
> know what's happening:
>
> - kscd is hanging to the drive, even though there is no audio CD in there
> - amd fails at the first attempt to read /dev/cd0c and fails on succeeding
>   calls
>
> However, even if I reload amd with 'killall -HUP amd' it doesn't show
> anything below /mnt/cdrom/. Perhaps there is some other file locked?

It's possible. If you kill amd, can you mount the cdrom manually?
Does anything show up in /var/log/messages after you try to cd to the
mounted CD?


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David Fleck
david.fleck at mchsi.com