Removable media icons
Debian friends,
I'm running Linux 2.6.15-1-686 i686 (testing)
with KDE 3.5.1 and
udev 0.085-1
dbus 0.60-6
hal 0.5.6-4
and do not get any icons showing removable
usb media, like before, since some time.
After reboot:
Nothing in dmesg/syslog concerning neither udev, dbus, nor hal.
No icon shows up when the usb disk is connected (it used to!).
Mounting through Konqueror does function, though the Konqueror
icon is not changed to the mounted version. But it is mounted,
since I can use it with no problem (the mounting is done, like
always, according to entries in fstab).
Florian (see blow) recommended
invoke-rc.d udev restart
invoke-rc.d dbus restart
invoke-rc.d kdm restart
(after stopping kdm)
This did not change the "icon behaviour".
But else, all seems in good order:
Still nothing in syslog concerning neither udev, dbus, nor hal.
Can there be some influence of how am-utils 6.1.3-2 is configured?
I'd appreciate any suggestion, thanks on beforehand!
Tore
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Since I'm off-list, please cc to tore.ericsson@telia.com
Please read some earlier communication (hereby sent to this list)
before suggestions concerning Control Center settings, etc.:
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(1. My first questions)
Subject: Removable media
From: Tore Ericsson <tore.ericsson@telia.com>
To: florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl
Dear Florian,
In http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/02/msg00601.html you wrote:
...
If you want to get rid of the icons on the desktop, you can uncheck the
corresponding option(s) in "K-menu > Control Center > Desktop > Behavior
> Device Icons". The default actions for different types pluggable
media can be set to "Do Nothing" in "K-menu > Control Center >
Peripherals > Storage Media". If you want to disable the media notifier
daemon, then see "K-menu > Control Center > KDE Components > Service
Manager".
...
Now my problem is about reversed (except the automount issue, let's ignore
that for the moment or maybe forever).
My desktop icons for removable media don't show up any longer after some
upgrades (also kernel 2.6 upgrade) recently. I'm now running Linux
2.6.15-1-686 i686, and all is about OK except this little deficit.
Earlier, the usb-devices in question (see Appendix) were properly showing up
with three icons corresponding to sda1--3 labelled by fstab and marked
unmounted.
The "Control Center > Desktop > Behavior > Device Icons" are properly checked,
and I have seen this working as expected, earlier.
However, I have never touched the "Control Center > KDE Components > Service
Manager" before, and it is a bit cryptic to me. How is this supposed to work
and be used?
Sorry to bother, but I would much appreciate your advice!
Tore
P.S. In case you think this is enough significant to be shown in a Debian
mailinglist, please do so, but send cc to me!
Appendix: Disconnect and connect, tail of dmesg:
...
sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
usb-storage: device scan complete
usb 2-2: USB disconnect, address 3
usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 4
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Vendor: ST325082 Model: 4ND1 Rev: 3.03
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sda: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
usb-storage: device scan complete
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(2. Florian's response)
Subject: Re: Removable media
Date: Saturday 11 March 2006 17:37
From: Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl>
To: Tore Ericsson <tore.ericsson@telia.com>
Dear Tore,
It seems to me that upgrades to udev, hal and/or dbus are still a bit
shaky and often break things. I think this is because the installation
scripts do not restart all the components which have to collaborate to
make the icons show up. (The kernel upgrade is probably unrelated to
this problem, unless you changed something about the initrd and modules
configuration.)
So far the following has always worked for me to bring the icons back:
Log out from KDE, log in on a text console, acquire root privileges and
restart everything, i.e.
invoke-rc.d udev restart
invoke-rc.d dbus restart
invoke-rc.d kdm restart
Then log in to KDE again and see if it works. If it does not work post
the error messages from the above commands (if any) and the relevant
parts of dmesg and syslog. Also include the version numbers of udev,
dbus and hal on your system. Please use the list for that; you will be
cc'd if you ask for it.
Regards,
Florian
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Dr. Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl>
Huygens Laboratory / BioMolPhys, Leiden University
Niels Bohrweg 2, 2333 CA Leiden, The Netherlands
Tel.: +31-71-5275908 Fax: +31-71-5275819
http://www.monos.leidenuniv.nl/smo/
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