Since I've upgraded to KDE 3.5.4, the media devices handling didn't work completely. I was only able to see removable media under media:/ kioslave. Yesterday I was talking with Kevin Ottens about that and I've found, thanks to his help, that's a sort of policy misconfiguration in: /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/20-storage-methods.fdi code: <!-- Here follow volumes we specifically want to ignore - it is the --> <!-- responsibility of software higher in the stack (e.g. gnome-vfs) --> <!-- amd mount programs (e.g. Mount() on HAL) to respect volume.ignore --> <merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">false</merge> <match key="@block.storage_device:storage.hotpluggable" bool="false"> <match key="@block.storage_device:storage.removable" bool="false"> <merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">true</merge> I have changed the last line above from "true" to "false". Restarted hald and kded, and magically the partitions show up. K. Ottens replied with: "I'd say it's a bug because of a wild patch applied without thinking about the consequences. ;-) For reference latest unpatched hal from fd.o repository doesn't have this rule... it really looks your distro devels made something wrong while patching this file." It worked with KDE <=3.5.3 because of a bug in it, but this bug has been fixed in KDE 3.5.4.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 146910 ***
