Re: Removable media not found on KDE
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 17:24:55 +0100, AG wrote:
> Florian Kulzer wrote:
>>> Florian Kulzer wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 23:07:16 +0100, AG wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In KDE3.5.5, running on Etch whenever I load a USB data
>>>>>>> stick, it triggers OpenOffice.org's splash screen and then
>>>>>>> reports that media:/sda1 does not exist.
[...]
>>>> I would start by taking a close look at this file:
>>>> ~/.kde/share/config/medianotifierrc
[...]
>>>> ~/.kde/share/config/profilerc
>>>>
>>>> You should check if this file contains any references to "ooo-*.desktop"
>>>> or "media/*".
[ snip: profilerc indeed contained a spurious entry linking
ooo-writer.desktop and media/removable_unmounted; however, removing
this entry or even the entire file does not fix the problem. ]
>> I would remove both files and try again. (The new account seems to do
>> fine without them, after all.)
>
> OK - have just mv'd both files to a new name. USB now brings up the
> option of new device found "open a new window" or "do nothing".
> Selected "open" and the OOo splashscreen came up (which always happens).
> Then an error message that ~:/media/sda1 cannot be found. Going through
> konqueror through /media there is a directory called Removable ... but
> there's nothing inside. No sda1 (USB) anywhere. The USB itself is
> perfectly fine - have checked.
>
> I'm stumped. If KDE is recreating those *rc files from scratch, how
> does OOo get triggered from a fresh creation? Is the problem upstream,
> and if so ... what file governs the creation of a medianotifierrc and
> profilerc when these are deleted?
There must be a misconfiguration elsewhere that redefines the OpenAction
for media to "open with openoffice". I have idea where that may be,
unfortunately. At some point in the past your user must have told KDE to
open an unmounted USB stick with openoffice - with the intention to
access a file on the stick, I guess - and KDE has faithfully remembered
that.
$ find ~/.kde/share/ -name \*.desktop
might turn up a suspect for the problematic file, anything that looks
like it could be related to konqueror, media, directories, mounting,
mime types, etc.
Recursive, case-insensitive grepping through ~/.kde/share/ may give a
clue if you search for "openaction", "oowriter", "ooo-" or similar
terms.
Another angle to approach this issue would be to try reproducing the
problem on the clean account of a new user; it should be easier to find
the responsible file if the account has not been used for anything else.
There has to be a way to cause the misconfiguration through creative use
of KDE's first-time pop-up dialog for removable media (assuming your
user did not edit configuration files directly).
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