Bug 87326

Does your distribution use subfs or hotplug? (as SuSE 9.1)
If it does konqueror might not be able to tell that the path is on a removable device.

> cat /etc/fstab
/dev/hdb3            /                    ext3       acl,user_xattr        1 1
/dev/hdb2            /boot                ext3       acl,user_xattr        1 2
/dev/hdb4            /home                ext3       acl,user_xattr        1 2
/dev/hda1            /windows/C           vfat       users,gid=users,umask=0002,
iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda5            /windows/D           vfat       users,gid=users,umask=0002,
iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/hdb1            swap                 swap       pri=42                0 0
devpts               /dev/pts             devpts     mode=0620,gid=5       0 0
proc                 /proc                proc       defaults              0 0
usbfs                /proc/bus/usb        usbfs      noauto                0 0
sysfs                /sys                 sysfs      noauto                0 0
/dev/dvdrecorder     /media/dvdrecorder   subfs      fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,
nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0             /media/floppy        subfs      fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,
nosuid,sync 0 0

> cat /proc/mounts
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev/root / ext3 rw 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
/dev/hdb2 /boot ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/hdb4 /home ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/hda1 /windows/C vfat rw,nodiratime,nosuid,nodev,noexec,gid=100,fmask=0002,dmask=0002,codepage=cp437 0 0
/dev/hda5 /windows/D vfat rw,nodiratime,nosuid,nodev,noexec,gid=100,fmask=0002,dmask=0002,codepage=cp437 0 0
/dev/dvdrecorder /media/dvdrecorder subfs ro,nosuid,nodev 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs rw,sync,nosuid,nodev 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy vfat rw,sync,nodiratime,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=100,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437 0 0

> df
Filsystem             1K-block    Använt Tillgängl Anv% Monterat på
/dev/hdb3             51613048  19526104  29465136  40% /
tmpfs                   258244        20    258224   1% /dev/shm
/dev/hdb2              1035692     38536    944544   4% /boot
/dev/hdb4             65052868  25974104  35774196  43% /home
/dev/hda1             22504048   7082240  15421808  32% /windows/C
/dev/hda5             22504048   2767648  19736400  13% /windows/D
/dev/fd0                  1424         0      1424   0% /media/floppy

Yet another version confirmation. I'm experiencing exactly the same as described by reporter in KDE/Konqueror 3.3.1

See my comment here for detail procedure to reproduce it: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37780#c133

Do you still suffer this problem in more recent kde versions?

This bug may be related somehow to http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78322

Still exists. Tried in Konq 3.5.8 which I had at hand, using steps from Comment #2 I could reproduce the same problem as before.

On KDE 4 the navigation panel doesn't exists anymore in konqueror.

All reports about file management mode reported against KDE 3 (konqueror) has been closed: konqueror in KDE 3 is no more developed and mantained. All bugs and wishes which could be interesting for Dolphin in KDE 4 (the new KDE file manager) has been collected into a specific list.

Please try the new file manager before request new features and report bugs.

Before submitting new reports check carefully the already opened KDE/Dolphin reports in order not to add duplicates.

Many thanks.

(In reply to comment #5)
> On KDE 4 the navigation panel doesn't exists anymore in Konqueror.

This issue may, or may not, have been resolved in KDE-4.  HOWEVER, you are in error when you state that the Navigation Panel does not exist on Konqueror (in KDE-4).

If the problem still exists in KDE-4, please file a new bug report against KDE-4.

@James: from your first comment:
"You can mount devices with the Navigation Panel and they will unmount in some cases"

Now in konqueror you cannot mount/umount anything from any panel in the sidebar (instead you can do it with dolphin, but that is the places panel).

It is true that it has don't be removed, but it has the subpanel used for mounting/umouting.

Anyway the bug is not reproducible in KDE 4 :-)