Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.5) Installed from: Gentoo Packages Compiler: gcc (GCC) 4.1.1 (Gentoo 4.1.1-r1) OS: Linux If I insert a mountable device (e.g. my iaudio mp3 player), kde will ask me what I want to do and place the icon on the desktop. The device will be mounted on '/media/IAUDIO/' or '/media/IAUDIO-(number of mounts this session?)'. If I choose to open the filesystem, konqueror will show an empty tab with location system:/media/sdb1. If I browse to /media/IAUDIO I can browse the files normally. I noticed this behaviour after an upgrade from dbus-0.62 to 1.0.2. dbus-1.0.2 hal-0.5.7.1 kdebase-kioslaves-3.5.5
I have the same issue. Same program versions as the guy that reported this bug. System is Gentoo. Everything worked on this system as expected up until the upgrade.
This issue is also being worked on in the Gentoo forums, here is a link to the thread: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-524143-highlight-hal+kde.html It seems that running: ln -s libdbus-1.so.3.2.0 libdbus-1.so.2 will resolve the issue. libdbus-1.so.3 is the file created during the install of dbus, so libdbus-1.so.2 does not exist after the install.
The suggestion to create the links didn't work for me but after an upgrade to a new package version from portage sys-apps/hal-0.5.7.1-r3 or sys-apps/hal-0.5.7.1-r4 everything seems to work again. So I don't know the exact cause but all's well that ends well.
Yes, actually mounting external devices is working right on both 3.5.9 and KDE 4.