Segmentation Fault on cdrom after upgrade to 8.1 f

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phill-wheadon : 02/11/01 02:44 AM : Incident created -   I have run an upgrade from 8 to 8.1. Now any attempt to point a graphical file manager at /mnt immediately causes the programme to exit. Konqueror will not even open anymore. If I use the command line I can access other folders inside /mnt but /mnt/cdrom returns the error: Segmentation fault. find / -name [filename] -print -mount also fails immediately. I have also lost IPX networking - although this is a less serious problem at the moment. Also - beware accepting the Internet on boot option - I mistyped the telephone number and was unable to boot up - it seems there is no escape routine for a failed connection during boot. An option which I accepted by accident in the first place. Ongoing from 8 - failure of kppp to reset the correct default gateway for Internet access - I have to do this manually - route add default gw aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd
gc : 02/11/01 03:21 PM : Reply received -   Your problem with /mnt is probably related to the unstable supermount that comes with default 2.4 kernel of 8.1. You have two solutions : 1- use a 2.2 kernel (latest 2.2.19 from kernel22 package in 8.1) or the 2.4 from Mandrake 8.0 2- disable supermount I would advice solution (1). Generally speaking doing an update leads to some problems. Personally I use / and /home partitions, and I reinstall on / each time. I have a couple configuration files to change that live on / but it's a matter of minutes.
phill-wheadon : 08/01/02 01:35 AM : Incident closed -   I will disable the auto-mount as I am happy with the way USB support is running on the 2.4 kernel. Curiously the problem arose on another another machine after an upgrade to 8.1. I ran a fresh install and everything is fine. It seems the problem is triggered under a set of conditions determined by the previous version.

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