On Wednesday 23 June 2004 00:07, Stephen Boddy wrote:
cp -pr .kde .kde_bak
Go back to KDE and log back in as root and see if that cures the problem, though ideally you shouldn't log into KDE as root. If this works you could selectively copy back configs from the backup.
It doesn't change a thing, the error message does still appear and accessing the "/" directory still takes about 15 secs. When I try to access the "/" dir., I have the following kernel messages in /var/log/messages: Jun 23 11:31:12 dhcppc0 kernel: cdrom: open failed. Jun 23 11:31:12 dhcppc0 submountd: mount failure, No medium found Jun 23 11:31:12 dhcppc0 kernel: subfs: unsuccessful attempt to mount media (256) Jun 23 11:31:12 dhcppc0 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Jun 23 11:31:13 dhcppc0 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Jun 23 11:31:13 dhcppc0 submountd: mount failure, No such device or address Jun 23 11:31:13 dhcppc0 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Jun 23 11:31:13 dhcppc0 kernel: subfs: unsuccessful attempt to mount media (256) Jun 23 11:31:13 dhcppc0 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Jun 23 11:31:13 dhcppc0 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Jun 23 11:31:13 dhcppc0 submountd: mount failure, No such device or address Jun 23 11:31:13 dhcppc0 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Jun 23 11:31:13 dhcppc0 kernel: subfs: unsuccessful attempt to mount media (256) Jun 23 11:31:16 dhcppc0 kernel: ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 1 Jun 23 11:31:16 dhcppc0 kernel: ISOFS: changing to secondary root Jun 23 11:31:41 dhcppc0 kernel: cdrom: open failed. Jun 23 11:31:45 dhcppc0 kernel: cdrom: open failed. Jun 23 11:31:45 dhcppc0 submountd: mount failure, No medium found Jun 23 11:31:45 dhcppc0 kernel: subfs: unsuccessful attempt to mount media (256) Jun 23 11:31:49 dhcppc0 kernel: cdrom: open failed. Jun 23 11:31:54 dhcppc0 kernel: cdrom: open failed. Jun 23 11:31:54 dhcppc0 submountd: mount failure, No medium found Jun 23 11:31:54 dhcppc0 kernel: subfs: unsuccessful attempt to mount media (256) Jun 23 11:31:58 dhcppc0 kernel: cdrom: open failed. The clue might might be in these? Laurent Asorne -- Linux is like an indian tent: no Windows, no Gates and an Apache inside