Hello SuSE people, Need to get rid of the following message from kdesktop everytime I log in as a user. "Could not start process. Unable to create io slave. Klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'devices'" This started after a new install of 9.2 and I restored my old desktop setting from a previous distro (8.2) which removed the "My Computer" icon. I may be wrong but I think it has something to do with the subfilesystem in 9.2 Thought that adding/restoring the icon would fix the error message, It was restored thanks to the help of list member Ken Schneider, but the error message remains. All seems to be working well and the message is an annoyance more than anything. How can I get rid of it? Bob S.
On Monday 06 December 2004 3:00 am, B. Stia wrote:
Hello SuSE people,
Need to get rid of the following message from kdesktop everytime I log in as a user.
"Could not start process. Unable to create io slave. Klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'devices'"
This started after a new install of 9.2 and I restored my old desktop setting from a previous distro (8.2) which removed the "My Computer" icon. I may be wrong but I think it has something to do with the subfilesystem in 9.2 Thought that adding/restoring the icon would fix the error message, It was restored thanks to the help of list member Ken Schneider, but the error message remains.
All seems to be working well and the message is an annoyance more than anything. How can I get rid of it?
Hi, I, too, am seeing these on my 9.2 systems. PeterB
On Monday 06 December 2004 2:38 pm, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
On Monday 06 December 2004 3:00 am, B. Stia wrote:
Hello SuSE people,
Need to get rid of the following message from kdesktop everytime I log in as a user.
"Could not start process. Unable to create io slave. Klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'devices'"
This started after a new install of 9.2 and I restored my old desktop setting from a previous distro (8.2) which removed the "My Computer" icon. I may be wrong but I think it has something to do with the subfilesystem in 9.2 Thought that adding/restoring the icon would fix the error message, It was restored thanks to the help of list member Ken Schneider, but the error message remains.
All seems to be working well and the message is an annoyance more than anything. How can I get rid of it?
Hi,
I, too, am seeing these on my 9.2 systems.
PeterB
Not sure how or why this happens but one method I discovered to fix that is to open konqueror as a file browser. Hit F9 so the side bar comes up. The second icon down on the left should be devices/drives. Click on it and then right click on the Devices heading above all the CDs, DVDs, HDDs, etc. Choose Properties, URL tab and change that to drives:/ instead of devices:/. Click OK. Stan
On Monday 06 December 2004 17:09, Stan Glasoe wrote:
On Monday 06 December 2004 2:38 pm, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
On Monday 06 December 2004 3:00 am, B. Stia wrote:
Hello SuSE people,
Need to get rid of the following message from kdesktop everytime I log in as a user. .....<snip>................
Hi,
I, too, am seeing these on my 9.2 systems.
PeterB
Not sure how or why this happens but one method I discovered to fix that is to open konqueror as a file browser. Hit F9 so the side bar comes up. The second icon down on the left should be devices/drives. Click on it and then right click on the Devices heading above all the CDs, DVDs, HDDs, etc. Choose Properties, URL tab and change that to drives:/ instead of devices:/. Click OK.
Thanks for the effort Stan. Followed your instructions. When it got to the URL tab it was already designated drives:/ Played with it changing back & forth from devices:/ to drives:/ several times. Still getting the same message. Any other ideas? Maybe I broke a link somewhere when I deleted My Computer and then restored it? Bob S.
On Monday 06 December 2004 9:05 pm, B. Stia wrote:
Thanks for the effort Stan. Followed your instructions. When it got to the URL tab it was already designated drives:/ Played with it changing back & forth from devices:/ to drives:/ several times. Still getting the same message. Any other ideas? Maybe I broke a link somewhere when I deleted My Computer and then restored it?
Bob S.
Well Anders gave us the program to load and I did that so both drives:/ and devices:/ both work here now. Anders, where did you find this information? There is nothing mentioned in the kdebase3-extras package that I saw to indicate in handled these protocols. Stan
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 18:26, Stan Glasoe wrote:
Anders, where did you find this information? There is nothing mentioned in the kdebase3-extras package that I saw to indicate in handled these protocols.
If you look at the contents of the rpm you'll find ~> rpm -ql kdebase3-extra|grep protocol /opt/kde3/share/services/devices.protocol You'll also find a couple of kio-slaves for the devices. This is how kde handles this stuff But Bob is right, it's not the way SuSE handles it by default, it uses the 'My Computer' and SuSEplugger stuff, so you should be able to turn off the default kde stuff and still get the devices in the 'My Computer' folder (although you may want to rename it, for esthetical reasons :)
On Monday 06 December 2004 10:00, B. Stia wrote:
Hello SuSE people,
Need to get rid of the following message from kdesktop everytime I log in as a user.
"Could not start process. Unable to create io slave. Klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'devices'"
You need to install the package kdebase3-extra to get that protocol.
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 01:37, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Monday 06 December 2004 10:00, B. Stia wrote:
Hello SuSE people,
Need to get rid of the following message from kdesktop everytime I log in as a user.
"Could not start process. Unable to create io slave. Klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'devices'"
You need to install the package kdebase3-extra to get that protocol.
Anders, Did that and solved the problem, BUT, now my desktop is littered with 9 hard drive icons, the CD, the DVD, the floppy, etc. and I can't get rid of them. Bob S.
B., On Tuesday 07 December 2004 19:40, B. Stia wrote:
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 01:37, Anders Johansson wrote: ...
You need to install the package kdebase3-extra to get that protocol.
Anders,
Did that and solved the problem, BUT, now my desktop is littered with 9 hard drive icons, the CD, the DVD, the floppy, etc. and I can't get rid of them.
Control Center -> Desktop -> Behavior -> Device Icons Disable the ones you don't want to see.
Bob S.
Randall Schulz
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 10:46 pm, Randall R Schulz wrote:
B.,
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 19:40, B. Stia wrote:
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 01:37, Anders Johansson wrote: ...
You need to install the package kdebase3-extra to get that protocol.
Anders,
Did that and solved the problem, BUT, now my desktop is littered with 9 hard drive icons, the CD, the DVD, the floppy, etc. and I can't get rid of them.
Control Center -> Desktop -> Behavior -> Device Icons
Disable the ones you don't want to see.
Bob S.
Randall Schulz ===========
Or you could just right click on the ones you don't need and remove them with that menu. Sounds like it just doubled up on icons, so no need to disable them, as they aren't needed any longer. regards, Lee
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 22:46, Randall R Schulz wrote:
B.,
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 19:40, B. Stia wrote:
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 01:37, Anders Johansson wrote: ...
You need to install the package kdebase3-extra to get that protocol.
Anders,
Did that and solved the problem, BUT, now my desktop is littered with 9 hard drive icons, the CD, the DVD, the floppy, etc. and I can't get rid of them.
Control Center -> Desktop -> Behavior -> Device Icons
Disable the ones you don't want to see.
Thank's Randall, That uncluttered me ! Appreciate it. Funny though. Like I said in my amended message. 3 users, 2 OK, with the My Computer folder. Mine hosed because I restored an old desktop configuration. Got the My Computer folder back but then got the "device" message. Followed Anders advice, cleared up the message problem, but gave me all of those icons. The other two users were not effected by the kdebase3-extra install. Strange ! Oh well, it works now. Lee, the right click remove doesn't work with device icons. Bob S.
On Wednesday 08 December 2004 10:53 pm, B. Stia wrote: [...]
Thank's Randall,
That uncluttered me ! Appreciate it. Funny though. Like I said in my amended message. 3 users, 2 OK, with the My Computer folder. Mine hosed because I restored an old desktop configuration. Got the My Computer folder back but then got the "device" message. Followed Anders advice, cleared up the message problem, but gave me all of those icons. The other two users were not effected by the kdebase3-extra install. Strange !
Oh well, it works now.
Lee, the right click remove doesn't work with device icons.
Bob S. ===========
You couldn't right click on an icon and choose "delete" from the menu to remove them? That's rather odd, as the only device icons I can't do that with are the ones in the "My Computer" folder. No matter, you seem to have corrected it for the moment by merely hiding them. regards, Lee -- --- KMail v1.7.1 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 "Don't let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game!"
On Thursday 09 December 2004 08:17, BandiPat wrote:
On Wednesday 08 December 2004 10:53 pm, B. Stia wrote: [...]
Thank's Randall,
That uncluttered me !
Lee, the right click remove doesn't work with device icons.
Bob S.
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You couldn't right click on an icon and choose "delete" from the menu to remove them? That's rather odd, as the only device icons I can't do that with are the ones in the "My Computer" folder.
Nope, exact same behavior, and they were duplicates of what is in My Computer.
No matter, you seem to have corrected it for the moment by merely hiding them.
Yep, Thanks, Bob S.
On Monday 06 December 2004 04:00, B. Stia wrote:
Hello SuSE people,
Adding to my own message for clarification and more clues for the Guru's on this list.
Need to get rid of the following message from kdesktop everytime I log in as a user.
"Could not start process. Unable to create io slave. Klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'devices'"
There are two other users who do not get this message.
This started after a new install of 9.2 and I restored my old desktop setting from a previous distro (8.2) which removed the "My Computer" icon.
This has to be where it broke. I am the one that broke this in my own home directory: because the other two users do not have this problem. (did not restore their old desktop settings)
I may be wrong but I think it has something to do with the subfilesystem in 9.2 Thought that adding/restoring the icon would fix the error message, The My Computer icon was restored thanks to the help of list member Ken Schneider, but the error message remains.
After asking on the list Anders stated that I needed kdebase3-extra. I installed that and it worked because I did not get the message anymore but it filled my desktop with icons of all of my drives. The other two users are perfectly normal. What is puzzling is that their desktops worked as expected before the kdebase3-extra was installed, and now after installation of the kdebase3-extra their desktops remain normal. Only mine acts this way. Has to be something to do with the original My Computer being removed from my desktop, some kind of broken link or something. What do you all think guys ?? Bob S.
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