[kde-freebsd] KDE 4.3.3 not detecting attached devices

[Dima Panov]

On Thursday 19 November 2009 19:40:04 David Bruce Naylor wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 November 2009 17:02:03 Dima Panov wrote:
> > On Thursday 19 November 2009 00:34:17 David Bruce Naylor wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Is anyone else having KDE failing to detect attached devices?
> > >
> > > dmesg shows the usb-flash attached and an entry appears under
> > > /dev/msdosfs but KDE does not flinch and dolphin does not show the
> > > device under its 'Places'.
> >
> > I've had same effect with kde4.3.1, after reinstall hal/policykit/other
> >  hal-related crap problem is gone away.
> 
> I've reinstalled hal/policykit/consolekit and nothing has changed.
> 
> Strange thing is: I have a second HDD that has FreeBSD and Windows and if I
> mount one of those slices/partition then the remaining pop-up under the
> Devices plasmoid (this has always been the case) however my attached USB-
> device is still not detected.

Yep, same happens sometimes with sort of devices (usually happens with storages with first 
ntfs partition created under winxpsp2/vista). 
But flashes with FAT, cd/dvd - always detected.

> > On kde 4.3.3/qt46b1 device plasmoid always confim device attach and
> > dolfin can use all of them.
> 
> I might upgrade to qt46rc1 and try again.  What version of FreeBSD are you
> running?

FreeBSD-9.0-CURRENT/amd64, upgrade every 2-3 weeks.

> > > I do not know where to start diagnosing this problem (could it be hal
> > > related)?  [`ps -A | grep da0` shows hald-addon-storage: /dev/da0
> > >  (hald-addon- storage)]
> > >
> > > Any help will be appreciated.
> >
> > Seems like a stucked hal configuration
> 
> I also cleared etc/[hal|PolicyKit|ConsoleKit] when reinstalling those ports
> and again nothing changed.

May be you need an opposite solution? add yourself in hal/polkit config and see what been 
changed.

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