Bug 130424

Summary: removable media non functional if HAL unavailable during KDE startup
Product: [Frameworks and Libraries] kio Reporter: FACORAT Fabrice <f.faber-pro>
Component: mediaAssignee: Kevin Ottens <ervin>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Mandriva RPMs   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description FACORAT Fabrice 2006-07-07 18:26:05 UTC 
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.
Comment 1 FACORAT Fabrice 2006-07-07 18:27:04 UTC 
Link to Mandriva : http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=23579
Comment 2 FACORAT Fabrice 2006-07-07 18:43:02 UTC 
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 ?
Comment 3 Kevin Ottens 2009-02-28 11:04:26 UTC 
kio media doesn't exist on KDE4.