Version: (using KDE 3.5.10) OS: Linux Installed from: Ubuntu Packages On KDE 3.5.10 (Kubuntu 8.04) and 3.5.8 (Kubuntu 7.10): kio_media loads on demand, HAL backend is active. Navigating to system:/media with Konqueror or Dolphin initially works (all entries are there), but after a while nothing is shown and notifications of USB sticks or CSs/DVDs are not shown. When I navigate to system:/media, I can click on the CD icon, but get an error message (translated) "this function is only available with HAL". Further investigation (reading source code) shows that it is a problem with kio_media's HAL backend. While everything is working fine, executing $ dcop kded mediamanager fullList returns (as expected by Dolphin): /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_2e648e91_f15c_4b78_8680_37dea36b783e sda2 498G-Medium true /dev/sda2 / ext3 true media/hdd_mounted --- and after a while, the same command returns: /org/kde/mediamanager/fstab/devsda2 sda2 Festplatte (sda2) true /dev/sda2 / ext3 true media/hdd_mounted --- (note that the first line is different) Looking at mediamanager's source code, I'd say that HAL backend has a problem, since the second answer comes from the fstab backend. Calling $ dcop kded mediamanager reloadBackends fixes the problem temporarily. I have this problem on 100+ installations, but I cannot reproduce it on my laptop. I don't know what exactly is causing the problem. Maybe dbus is disconnecting kio_media, and kio_media is not reconnecting afterwards? The only thing I see is cups sending very frequent add/remove printer notifications on system dbus, I don't get these notifications on my location. For reference, dbus versions are 1.1.1 (Kubuntu 7.10) and 1.1.20 (Kubuntu 8.04). Our temporary solution is a cron job executing dcop query, and issuing reloadBackends when needed (mailing us active processes and last log entries). Since activating that job on a couple of workstations this morning, everything works fine... If I do get error reports, I'll post them here. Anything else I could check? Compiling KDE from scratch is not a possibility here, sorry. Toni
kio media doesn't exist on KDE4.