Hi: I have been using a USB memory stick to transfer stuff from my 8.1 box to my new 9.1 box. I was doing this before getting NFS working, and still may want to do it because there are major bugs with Konqueror that haven't been resolved yet, that make it very difficult to work with NFS shares. But those same bugs are making it very difficult to work with removable media as well. It seems Konqueror, or something in the system is always checking the removable drives. For instance, when I click the dir /media, the CDROM drive blinks, and the floppy drive light comes on. I have to wait 15-30 seconds before the subdirs finally appear in Konqueror. The same happens for a NFS share. This is completely unusable. Not to mention that Konqueror just decides to not acknowledge the existence of certain dirs at times. For instance, now I have a dir /mango which is the mount point of an NFS share. It no longer appears in the display of / in Konqueror. Konqueror hangs for many minutes if I type in this path. But in the "Devices|Remote Share" I can see my NFS shares, but only after a long wait. Also, when I click on "Remote Share" Konqueror (or someone) looks at my removable devices for another 15-30 seconds!!! Why does it care about the floppy and CD when looking at an NFS share??? Folks, I need answers, or this system will not be useable. My question is this: Where I can I find an explanation of how the system is handling removable media? Can I switch back to the old "manual" mounting and dismounting system? It seems it is trying to do things automatically, and not very well at that. I need to know where the documentation is on how this works and what configuration options exist. I turned off the KDE drive watcher, but it didn't help. Oh, after restarting the system now Konqueror acknowledges the existence of my /mango dir again, but takes a long time to display it's contents and has to search the removable media again every time I click it. This is really pathetic. Thanks for input. Good day! -- ____________________________________ Christopher R. Carlen Principal Laser/Optical Technologist Sandia National Laboratories CA USA crcarle@sandia.gov
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 07:50:56AM -0700, Chris Carlen wrote:
My question is this: Where I can I find an explanation of how the system is handling removable media? Can I switch back to the old "manual" mounting and dismounting system?
http://portal.suse.com/sdb/de/2004/05/hmeyer_91_revert_from_subfs.html The link has been posted to the list yesterday, it's in German only at the moment, but I hope you can figure out how to switch to the old behaviour. Regards, -Kastus
Kastus wrote:
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 07:50:56AM -0700, Chris Carlen wrote:
My question is this: Where I can I find an explanation of how the system is handling removable media? Can I switch back to the old "manual" mounting and dismounting system?
http://portal.suse.com/sdb/de/2004/05/hmeyer_91_revert_from_subfs.html
The link has been posted to the list yesterday, it's in German only at the moment, but I hope you can figure out how to switch to the old behaviour.
Regards, -Kastus
try http://world.altavista.com/ did the trick for me
Unfortunately it strips all formatting so what you get is devoid of
spaces and hard to read.
Isn't there one which translates but keeps the formatting?
CWSIV
On Thu, 20 May 2004 18:33:20 +0200 Ales Jagodnik
Kastus wrote:
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 07:50:56AM -0700, Chris Carlen wrote:
My question is this: Where I can I find an explanation of how the system is handling removable media? Can I switch back to the old "manual" mounting and dismounting system?
http://portal.suse.com/sdb/de/2004/05/hmeyer_91_revert_from_subfs.html
The link has been posted to the list yesterday, it's in German only at the moment, but I hope you can figure out how to switch to the old behaviour.
Regards, -Kastus
try http://world.altavista.com/ did the trick for me
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In english please. that doc is germain. CWSIV On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 09:24, Kastus wrote:
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 07:50:56AM -0700, Chris Carlen wrote:
My question is this: Where I can I find an explanation of how the system is handling removable media? Can I switch back to the old "manual" mounting and dismounting system?
http://portal.suse.com/sdb/de/2004/05/hmeyer_91_revert_from_subfs.html
The link has been posted to the list yesterday, it's in German only at the moment, but I hope you can figure out how to switch to the old behaviour.
Regards, -Kastus
On Thursday 20 May 2004 15:50 pm, Chris Carlen wrote:
Hi:
I have been using a USB memory stick to transfer stuff from my 8.1 box to my new 9.1 box. I was doing this before getting NFS working, and still may want to do it because there are major bugs with Konqueror that haven't been resolved yet, that make it very difficult to work with NFS shares.
I use nfs extensively and haven't noticed anything serious. What 'bugs' are you referring to? Dylan -- "I see your Schwartz is as big as mine" -Dark Helmet
Dylan wrote:
On Thursday 20 May 2004 15:50 pm, Chris Carlen wrote:
Hi:
I have been using a USB memory stick to transfer stuff from my 8.1 box to my new 9.1 box. I was doing this before getting NFS working, and still may want to do it because there are major bugs with Konqueror that haven't been resolved yet, that make it very difficult to work with NFS shares.
I use nfs extensively and haven't noticed anything serious. What 'bugs' are you referring to?
When I configured the NFS client on the 9.1 box, to get shares from an NFS server running on an 8.1 box, I made the mount point /mango. What was happening is that when I would click on the "root folder" in Konqueror's sidebar, it would show the root folder containing /mango. But then when I'd click /mango, it would pause for 30 seconds while it accessed the CDRW and floppy drives! Then it would finally show the contents of the NFS mount point. Subsequent clicks on subdirs of the NFS share processed quickly, but when I would again click on /mango in the sidebar, it would pause and do the whole thing again. Very annoying, and completely unnecessary, for access to the removable media drives to be occurring in this manner. But this was a problem ocurring in parallel with the same behavior happening whenever I'd click on /media. Then it got worse. Konqueror decided to unacknowledge the existence of /mango when looking at the root folder. However, the "devices" view showed the NFS share. It still had the pause problem. At a command promt, of course the /mango dir was alive and well. Only Konqueror somehow became unable to see it. Very strange. And very unacceptable for a program that is at the core of the desktop OS, the filemanager. It should be a rock-solid program. But it is always like this. For every Suse release for several years now, I have within a few hours of exploring the new KDE installation, found crashes and other very serious bugs with Konqueror. I have umounted the "subfs" mounts manually at a root prompt. This has fixed the pausing problem. What I must do now is learn what this subfs is all about, and how to control whether the system attempts to automount removable media devices or not, or lets me do it manually. Good day! -- ____________________________________ Christopher R. Carlen Principal Laser/Optical Technologist Sandia National Laboratories CA USA crcarle@sandia.gov
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