Bug 263521

Summary:	kde spins up unused drives when selecting k-menu
Product:	[I don't know] kde	Reporter:	Jürgen Bausa <Juergen.Bausa>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs <unassigned-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	3.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian stable
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Jürgen Bausa 2011-01-18 09:44:46 UTC

Version:           3.5 (using KDE 1.2) 
OS:                Linux

On my system I have mounted a network share via nfs at /home/media. As this drive is not used most of the time, it spins down after 10 minutes without access. However, often it spins up again when using kde components, although this is not necassary. For example, clicking the K-menu or opening the context-menu for a file in konqueror may spin up the drive, although no file on the share needs to be accessed.

This behaviour is undesirable, as it results in a delay of some seconds, as the drive needs some time to spin up and as it results in some noise. 

The partition has already been mounted with noatime. I also disabled the kde option "fast copying" (which allows to copy a file via context menu to locations used in previous copy actions.

Regards,

Juergen

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
mount a partition at a mount point above your home directory (which means not in your home directory). E.g. at /home/media. Allow the drive to spin down when not accessed (there should be no other mounted partition on that drive). Access the mouned partition from your account (open/save dialogue from kde-apps, copy/delet files from konqueror. Wait for the partiotion to spin down. Work with kde without accessing the mounted partition.

Actual Results:  
disk with mounted partition will spin up.

Expected Results:  
disk should keep not spinning

Comment 1 Jekyll Wu 2012-07-10 08:34:28 UTC

Are you really using KDE 3.5 ? It is unmaintained.  

Is this still an issue in KDE4 ? Is it the same as bug 292956 ?

Comment 2 Jürgen Bausa 2012-07-11 09:47:53 UTC

> Are you really using KDE 3.5 ? It is unmaintained.  

I was using kde 3.5 when reporting the bug. I now use kde 4.4.3 from debian squeeze. The bug remains.

>Is this still an issue in KDE4 ? Is it the same as bug 292956 ?

Yes. Yes.

Juergen

Comment 3 Jekyll Wu 2012-07-11 11:31:49 UTC

Thanks for your feedback. I will mark this report as a duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 292956 ***