On Monday 14 September 2020 04:31:41 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: wrote: wrote: wrote: > > > > > > > > William Morder via tde-users wrote: > > > > > > > > > When I want to inspect my hard drives (internal/external, > > > > > > > > > mounted/unmounted), I found it is sometimes useful to > > > > > > > > > enter, in the address bar: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > media:/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > This gives me information about my drives at a glance, as > > > > > > > > > well as allowing access to various tools and settings for > > > > > > > > > working with those disks and partitions. I don't use it > > > > > > > > > often (relatively speaking), but now I find that I cannot > > > > > > > > > use it at all when running Konqueror as root. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Isn't it using dbus and dbus is not running for root? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I don't know. It used to work for me before, in Jessie, and > > > > > > > especially when running Kubuntu. > > > > > > > > > > > > I get that message in both root and user level Konqueror. > > > > > > > > > > > > But! I know media:/ works just after sticking in a thumb drive > > > > > > as it does it's auto-mount thing and then a Konqueror pop-up

> > > > > > media:/{thumb-drive} in the Location bar. > > > > > > > > > > > > my 2 cents, > > > > > > Michael > > > > > > > > > > My 2 cents is no longer valid. The auto-mount thing no longer > > > > > auto-mounts. > > > > > > > > > > - This system* was built ~7/25, auto-mount worked correctly then. > > > > > - AFAIK auto-mount worked correctly around 8/15. > > > > > - Last rebooted 8/26. > > > > > - As of today, 9/13, sticking in a USB drive does not auto-mount. > > > > > - Manually mounting works. > > > > > > > > > > Anyone know what changed in the last month or so? > > > > > > > > > > Best, > > > > > Michael > > > > > > > > And here was I thinking that it was all in my head. Besides these > > > > problems, I have other weird developments; like, for example, my > > > > customized mount points no longer being recognized. > > > > > > I needed to reboot and now auto-mount and media:/ work correctly again > > > for normal user. > > > > > > root - Konqueror, throws errors: > > > > > > media:/ > > > > > > The TDE mediamanager is not running. > > > > > > During the previous startup, KNotify crashed while instantiating > > > KNotify. Do you want to try again or disable aRts sound output? > > > If you choose to disable aRts output now, you can re-enable it later

All this is very interesting, but I wonder what is causing it. Another thing that happens in my system recently (in the past few weeks): when I plug in a flash drive, suddenly a little bouncing icon for VLC starts up, meaning that something has awakened and is loading. Problem is, VLC isn't installed on my system. I do install it now and again, because it's the only way that I can watch DVDs; other players just don't

it. (For other videos, I tend to use smplayer.) But I have never installed VLC in this new system, devuan beowulf. When I look at what's running in

nothing obvious shows up. I've been transferring music files to micro SD cards, to put in smartphones for myself and a friend; and suddenly Konqueror has started created its own custom mount points, ignores fstab, ignores my automount scripts, basically is putting out something that looks like original defaults for those

(Before that, I couldn't get some of these gadgets to mount at all.) So here is a sample of the "mount points"* that have been bestowed upon me, against my will, by some higher, non-human intelligence: /media/Elements_25A1 /media/External_HDD____ /media/Mass_Storage_Device /media/My_Book_________ /media/<pete> /media/<user> /media/USB_Storage * Note that names in brackets (< >) have been changed to protect the

they are not my real mount points. I always create my own unique names for mount points; names like Pete and

(though I am more inventive still ...) are easier to remember than keeping straight which drive is Mass_Storage_Device and which is USB_Storage, or Elements_25A1 or My_Book_________. (Incidentally, WTF with the weird lines???) Another thing is, dbus seems to be acting weird, and I don't know enough

it to attempt corrections. I already have rather a lot on my plate at the moment. These developments are all new, since my installation of beowulf/buster; I never had anything like this is jessie or before, never even with the old KDE3. It reminds me of those *other* DEs or OSs that I try so hard to avoid. Somebody please make sense of these developing disasters. Bill _______________________________________________