Randall R Schulz wrote:
Klause, Craig,
On Saturday 29 January 2005 05:08, Klaus Layer wrote:
Hi Craig,
some time ago I had the same problem. It occured after my upgrade to SUSE 9.2 which actives subfs by default. The cause was that I had a symbolic link floppy to /media/floppy in /, an entry in /etc/fstab for the floppy drive, but no floppy drive. I suppose konqueror tried to read through the symlink which caused subfs to mount the no existing floppy device, which caused konqueror to hang. After removing the symlink konqueror worked fine again.
I do the same (keep a symbolic link to /media/floppy in /) and rarely have a diskette in the drive but have not experienced this symptom.
On the other hand, every time I copy (to the clipboard) in a KDE application (but not in other applications such as Mozilla or Java GUIs), the diskette drive is accessed, making a distinctive pattern of sounds.
Regards,
Klaus
Randall Schulz
Sorry, but that is *not* the same. There is a major difference between having a floppy drive which does not contain a disc, and not having that drive at all. One thing, I would expect to find clues to that sort of problem in /var/log/messages Actually, since I have the following line in my /etc/syslog.conf *.* /dev/tty9 I would expect to see that sort of thing on virtual screen 9 (.ctrl. .alt. F9), unless the machine had totally frozen up to the extent that I could not even switch screens. -- opinions personal, facts suspect. http://home.arcor.de/36bit/samba.html