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On Tuesday, 24 January 2006 10:02, Paul wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> Recently I had to update about 24 packages, all went well and any config |
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> files were updated. However, I now have a problem when kde starts, I get |
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> an error-kdesktop message saying "The KDE Mediamanager is not running" In |
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> the control Centre - Service Manager under startup Services the KDED Media |
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> Manager has a status of Not Running. If I try to start it manually I just |
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> get a message saying Unable to start service. |
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> I just don't know what to try next ----- any suggestions? |
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> Thanks |
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> Paul |
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Not sure if this will help, but I got the same problem after emerging world on |
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my 32bit Gentoo. I did not try downgrading HAL and re-emerging kdebase did |
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not help. |
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After further reading I got to understand that KDE Mediamanager mostly (only?) |
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is in charge of automagicaly mounting media - a feature I've been fighting |
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ever since it appeared, partly because I'm old-fashioned (I prefer the "I |
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mount it because I want it approach) and partly because some programs I use |
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did not react well to it (including untidy unmounts on external medias). |
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All this to say I solved the problem very easily: Control Center -> KDE |
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components -> Service Manager -> unselect Media Manager. |
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This prevents the error message, but of course, if you WANT the media manager, |
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this is not the solution :) |
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The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a |
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capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the |
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safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? |
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Frank Zappa |
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