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Udev Downgrade to Solve CD Automont Problem in Fedora 11

This is free software, mate, quite a good pretext for “good people”, and we have to know the ways to make it work. The below partially solves the problem we faced here, but only partially.

The problem faced: no CD/DVD automount in Fedora 11 Solution: downgrade of udev Result: kinda ambiguous, just read on…

After quite a lot of googling, I came to the conclusion it must be something udev-related (thanx to some Arch Linux and Ubuntu-related forum, however they were not giving any clear answer), thus udev-141-4 to be replaced with udev-141-3. The solution (DISCLAIMER: the below may damage your installation, do at your own risk):

  1. Update kernel as described here:
sudo yum update kernel kernel-devel kernel-headers kmod-nvidia ntfs-3g *virt*

Update all

sudo yum update
  1. Get the needed package from page http://fedora-arm.wantstofly.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=12875 (version 141-3 is workable), download the src.rpm to ~/software
  2. Build the package

sudo yum -y install libselinux-static libsepol-static
sudo rpmbuild --rebuild ~/software/udev-141-3.fc11.src.rpm
cd  /home/USERNAME/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/
sudo yum downgrade --nogpgcheck udev-141-3.fc11.x86_64.rpm libvolume_id-141-3.fc11.x86_64.rpm  libudev0-141-3.fc11.x86_64.rpm
  1. Now comes the funny stuff (the whole thing does not work without that), open two files and watch that:
  • /boot/grub/grub.conf does not contain “combined_mode=libata” in the kernel string, like:

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