We have run into this problem with diskless workstations in Debian Edu, where it blocks CD mounts to work properly from KDE. See <URL: http://bugs.skolelinux.no/show_bug.cgi?id=1234 > for that bug report.
The diskless workstation setup is a LTSP version with local applications. The file system is read-only, and thus /etc/ can't be written to. To get mounts working, we symlinked /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts, after discovering that symlinking it to a writable directory did not work. This work for most mount points, but not for the CDROM mounts, because /proc/mounts do not contain the user= flag documenting who did the mounting. This make it impossible for the local user to umount the mounted CDROM. Please make it possible to keep mtab outside /etc/, for example in /lib/init/rw/. Or at the very least, let it handle symlinks from /etc/mtab to a writable location and do the update to the file pointed to by the symlink. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
