Bug 115960 – Unable to access floppy through media:/ in kde

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Tom Kiermaier 2005-12-18 10:29:02 UTC]

I am unable to access my floppy drive through media:/ in kde 3.5.0. When clicking on the floppy icon it successfully mounts the drive then it just sits there with the little k thing spinning like its doing something.

If I try to close the konq window and then go back into it, it tries to mount the floppy again. This of course produces an error stating that the drive has already been mounted. The floppy icon never changes to mounted icon. 

Using udev-077-r5 and hal-0.5.5.1-r1. The line for my floppy drive in my fstab looks like this:
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy   auto            noauto,users,rw         0 0

[Comment 1 Tom Kiermaier 2005-12-18 19:50:26 UTC]

I think this may be a problem with hal. If I run lshal -m it shows nothing when mounting/unmounting the floppy. 

[Comment 2 Paolo Ornati 2006-06-11 07:42:16 UTC]

It is already reported upstream:

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120619

[Comment 3 Fabio Erculiani 2006-11-15 23:15:41 UTC]

someone, maybe from red flag linux, has just added a patch that should fix the remaining parts of the bug.

IMO, since KDE 3.5.5 is going to be completely stable in few days, it should be added to kdebase-kioslaves.

[Comment 4 Fabio Erculiani 2006-11-15 23:21:42 UTC]

JFYI, I created kdebase-kioslaves/kdebase-kioslaves-3.5.5-r1 on "sabayon" overlay.

[Comment 5 Sascha Lucas 2006-11-28 03:34:43 UTC]

please try to incorporate the patch from kde bug 120619 Comment #34: http://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=18579&action=view

TIA

[Comment 6 Sascha Lucas 2007-02-07 12:00:37 UTC]

seems to be fixed with kde 3.5.6 + hal-patch (/usr/portage/sys-apps/hal/files/hal-0.5.7.1-floppies-fix.patch).

I can acces my floppy now with media:/0.

[Comment 7 Charlie Shepherd (RETIRED) 2007-02-09 12:49:58 UTC]

Closing as fixed, thanks.