| Summary: | konqueror devices:/ and media:/ behave oddly for removable devices which are dynamically created with udev, but statically in fstab. | ||
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| Product: | [Unmaintained] kio | Reporter: | Richard Neill <kde> |
| Component: | media | Assignee: | Kevin Ottens <ervin> |
| Status: | RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | stevee |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Mandriva RPMs | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
devices:/ doesn't exist since KDE 3.4.0. Do you mean media:/ ? On my KDE 3.5.2 system, devices:/ and media:/ are both identical. Presumably devices:/ hasn't gone away completely. But yes, this probably should be stated in terms of media:/ . kio media doesn't exist on KDE4. |
Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.2) Installed from: Mandriva RPMs [1] By default, the devices:/ view in konqui works just as expected. Devices (memory-key, digital camera, ipod etc) appear (in the GUI) when they are plugged in and disappear (from the GUI) when unplugged. The device is labelled "Removable Device (sda1)" [2] However, I chose to set up some udev and fstab rules for them. [The advantages of this are: more CLI-friendly, repeatable mountpoint; helpful names (if more than one removable device at a time); scriptable; digital photos are transferred with sane permissions.] Here is one such rule: UDEV RULE: (10-local.rules) -------------------- #Olympus digital camera BUS=="usb", SYSFS{manufacturer}=="OLYMPUS", SYSFS{product}=="E-300", KERNEL=="sd?1", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="camera_e300" --------------------- FSTAB: --------------------- /dev/camera_e300 /mnt/e300 vfat pamconsole,ro,noexec,noauto,iocharset=iso8859-15,noatime,dmask=0022,fmask=0133 0 0 -------------------- [3] Now, devices:/ behaves very oddly: (i)The device is always listed in the GUI, whether or not it is plugged in! (ii)The device name is now "Removable device (camera_e300)" - correctly, but only if it exists. (iii)The icon is always the unmounted one, even if the device is actually mounted. (iv)The pop-up that occurs when you plug a removable device no longer appears. Experimenting reveals that it is the fstab line, not the udev rule which is responsible. [4] The condition for this bug to occur are: (i)/etc/fstab contains a permanent entry for the device. eg: "/dev/camera_e300 /mnt/e300 ...." (ii)The entry in /dev is a dynamically-created symlink. So (/dev/camera_e300) does not usually exist (iii)when /dev/camera_e300 pops into existence (without changing fstab), KDE doesn't notice. [5] Note1: The behaviour is identical for media:/ and devices:/ Note2: Even in the default setup Mounting and Unmounting a device (from the right-click menu) does not not refreshes the view, and so the device icon doesn't change from the unmounted<-->mounted icon until I click "Reload". Note3: [incidentally, I think the existence of device:/ devices:/ and media:/ is a bit confusing, especially since they are not documented at all under kcontrol->information->protocols.] I hope that's useful - if there is any more data you need, please ask. If this bug report could have been more useful, I'd welcome feedback.