Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.3) Installed from: Mandriva RPMs OS: Linux If for whatever reasons HAL cannot be contacted when KDE session starts, there does not appear to be any easy way to reinitialize media service. KDE won't recognize new devices nor show them under media:/. It seems that KDE falls back to /etc/fstab reading, but as new HAL no longer write entries in /etc/fsatb, this means that removable media are not detected. Maybe KDE should try afterwards to see if HAL is running and reenable HAL support.
Link to Mandriva : http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=23579
http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=23579#c5 There's an interesting suggestion in this comment. If possible, what about being registered to receive notification from D-Bus when HAL is started and reinitialize halbackend after that ?
kio media doesn't exist on KDE4.