From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010701 Description of problem: when ou try to mount a cd on some machines you have the following message : mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device if the module module managing the CD is relaoded, it works fine , for a while i tried this with SCSI and IDE devices this only happens with CDROM /var/log/messages sample : Sep 21 10:30:18 localhost kernel: ide-floppy driver 0.97 Sep 21 10:30:18 localhost insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.7-10/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-cd.o: insmod ide-cd failed Sep 21 10:30:18 localhost kernel: hdc: driver not present Sep 21 10:30:18 localhost kernel: ide-floppy driver 0.97 Sep 21 10:30:18 localhost insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.7-10/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-cd.o: insmod ide-cd failed Sep 21 10:30:18 localhost kernel: hdc: driver not present Sep 21 10:30:42 localhost kernel: ide-floppy driver 0.97 Sep 21 10:30:42 localhost kernel: hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache Sep 21 10:30:42 localhost kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.insert a cd 2.mount /mnt/cdrom 3.voila Actual Results: see the description Expected Results: be able to mount the cd Additional info: this is on the version AFTER ROSWELL : E***** the gold one we made in guildford ...
Yes, this is a valid problem which affects 3 computers that I know of, so far, on both an upgrade and fresh install. "depmod -ae" as root, post-install, solves the problem. For some reason, the modules.dep is WRONG and does not include mention of ide-cd.o.... not good.