On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 17:24:55 +0100, AG wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >>> Florian Kulzer wrote: >>>>>> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 23:07:16 +0100, AG wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> In KDE3.5.5, running on Etch whenever I load a USB data >>>>>>> stick, it triggers OpenOffice.org's splash screen and then >>>>>>> reports that media:/sda1 does not exist.
[...] >>>> I would start by taking a close look at this file: >>>> ~/.kde/share/config/medianotifierrc [...] >>>> ~/.kde/share/config/profilerc >>>> >>>> You should check if this file contains any references to "ooo-*.desktop" >>>> or "media/*". [ snip: profilerc indeed contained a spurious entry linking ooo-writer.desktop and media/removable_unmounted; however, removing this entry or even the entire file does not fix the problem. ] >> I would remove both files and try again. (The new account seems to do >> fine without them, after all.) > > OK - have just mv'd both files to a new name. USB now brings up the > option of new device found "open a new window" or "do nothing". > Selected "open" and the OOo splashscreen came up (which always happens). > Then an error message that ~:/media/sda1 cannot be found. Going through > konqueror through /media there is a directory called Removable ... but > there's nothing inside. No sda1 (USB) anywhere. The USB itself is > perfectly fine - have checked. > > I'm stumped. If KDE is recreating those *rc files from scratch, how > does OOo get triggered from a fresh creation? Is the problem upstream, > and if so ... what file governs the creation of a medianotifierrc and > profilerc when these are deleted? There must be a misconfiguration elsewhere that redefines the OpenAction for media to "open with openoffice". I have idea where that may be, unfortunately. At some point in the past your user must have told KDE to open an unmounted USB stick with openoffice - with the intention to access a file on the stick, I guess - and KDE has faithfully remembered that. $ find ~/.kde/share/ -name \*.desktop might turn up a suspect for the problematic file, anything that looks like it could be related to konqueror, media, directories, mounting, mime types, etc. Recursive, case-insensitive grepping through ~/.kde/share/ may give a clue if you search for "openaction", "oowriter", "ooo-" or similar terms. Another angle to approach this issue would be to try reproducing the problem on the clean account of a new user; it should be easier to find the responsible file if the account has not been used for anything else. There has to be a way to cause the misconfiguration through creative use of KDE's first-time pop-up dialog for removable media (assuming your user did not edit configuration files directly). -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
