> On Monday 14 September 2020 04:31:41 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> > Anno domini 2020 Mon, 14 Sep 07:21:53 -0400
> >
> > BorgLabs - Kate Draven via tde-users scripsit:
> > > On Sunday 13 September 2020, Michael via tde-users wrote:
> > > > On Sunday 13 September 2020 12:58:14 pm William Morder via tde-users
> wrote:
> > > > > On Sunday 13 September 2020 07:55:00 Michael via tde-users wrote:
> > > > > > On Tuesday 08 September 2020 09:18:30 am Michael via tde-users
> wrote:
> > > > > > > On Tuesday 08 September 2020 01:04:43 am William Morder via
> > > > > > > tde-users
> > > > >
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > > > On Monday 07 September 2020 22:53:46 deloptes via tde-users
> 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
with
> > > > > > > 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 My 2 cents is no longer valid.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
or
> > > > select an alternate sound player in the System Notifications control
> > > > panel.
> > > >
> > > > _______________________________________________
> > >
> > > I also get the arts crash as root. No more info on that.
> > >
> > > The TDE mediamanager thing happened to me when I had
> > > lib64ice6-1.0.10-1pclos2019.x86_64 installed. I downgraded to
> > > lib64ice6-1.0.9-2pclos2016.x86_64 and it stopped mostly.
> >
> > What is that "lib64ice6" ? I don't see it on devuan/beowulf.
> >
> > For your entertainment: https://linuxreviews.org/Systemd-homed - just
> > imagine that thing enabled on your systems ...
> >
> > Nik
> >
> > > Kate
> > >
>
> 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
cut
> 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
top,
> 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
devices.
> (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
innocent;
> they are not my real mount points.
>
> I always create my own unique names for mount points; names like Pete and
Fred
> (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
about
> 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
> _______________________________________________
Check your file associations.
kcontrol > TDE Components > File Associations
Check Storage Media settings:
kcontrol > peripherals > storage media
See what you find. Look for anything related to removable media.
Kate
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