usb disk icon not showing at startup

[James Richard Tyrer]

R. Daneel Olivaw wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I am using an external usb storage device (hard disk).
> When KDE is started, as soon as I plug the usb device into the system,
> everything works as expected : kde shows a desktop icon for my device,
> and eventually asks if I want to open a folder with it.
> Now, I am using that external usb storage device permanently. This means
> that I shut down my workstation and boot it up with the device
> connected. Now, once I log into KDE, the desktop icon for my external
> disk doesn't show on the desktop. However, the "storage section" (don't
> know how it's called, this is a french localization) of konqueror shows
> the device and as soon as I select it, the device gets mounted and the
> icon appears on the desktop.
> If I log in (desktop icon not appearing) and then plug in a second usb
> storage device, the new device appears on the desktop, as well as my
> first usb storage device.
> 
> This may just be a kind of 'refresh' issue, but I'd like to know if
> someone else ran accross this kind of behaviour.
> 
> btw, I'm running 'kde 3.5.3-0.4.fc5 Fedora-Core' on ... fc5
> (obviously :p)

I have a similar problem.  I am running Linux (mostly) From Scratch.  I 
have a few FC 3 & FC 4 RPMs.

I updated HAL and DBus and my DeskTop icons for my removable disks (CD, 
Floppies, Zip) vanished.  I also note that my system:/media directory is 
empty -- no hard drive partitions either.

While updating KDE and fooling around with HAL and DBus daemons they 
reappeared, but were gone again when I restarted my X session.

So, I concluded that there is some little thing wrong, but can't figure 
it out.

The SysV startup scripts start a global HAL and DBus daemon and my X 
session startup scripts start a local DBus daemon for the user.

Is there something more that I need to do.

-- 
JRT
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