FC3 -- KDE CDROM, xmodmap and pilot-xfer

[Malcolm Cowe]

I have checked for kscd or some other application that may be 
interfering with the CD under KDE, and initially there is nothing 
[obvious] running related to the CD. That is to say, lsof does not 
report anything, nor does ps auxwww.

Under these conditions, I can mount the CDROM from the command line. 
However, the CDROM fails to mount using the KDE desktop, whether through 
the desktop icon or through konqueror. After an attempt, ps auxwww 
returns the following:

[malk at bruhaha ~]$ ps auxwww | grep cd
malk      6270  1.4  2.7 30768 14308 ?       S    22:20   0:00 kdeinit: 
kio_audiocd audiocd /tmp/ksocket-malk/klauncherVB2s5b.slave-socket 
/tmp/ksocket-malk/konquerorvnywGa.slave-socket

If I kill the process and run mount from the command line, once more the 
mount command succeeds. KDE never succeeds.

Regards,

Malcolm.


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Original Message:

Message: 21 Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 14:35:43 -0500 From: Matt Morgan 
<minxmertzmomo at gmail.com> Subject: Re: FC3 -- KDE CDROM, xmodmap and 
pilot-xfer To: For users of Fedora Core releases 
<fedora-list at redhat.com> Message-ID: 
<fa37e76f0412011135794a76a2 at mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; 
charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 14:01:26 -0500 (EST), Adam 
<thelostxman at yahoo.ca> wrote:

 >>
 >> I also have the mounting cdrom problem in kde off a fresh install. 
It also
 >> mounts in gnome. I believe I chose to install everything. Any help 
anyone
 >> could provide would be great. [obviously gnome is far superior?]
 >>
 >> (the issue this original question was in was vol 9, issue 519)
 >>
 >>


Usually this is because KDE autostarts kscd, the KDE CD player app, at
login. You'll find it somewhere on your panel, and you can turn it off
permanently in ~/.KDE/Autostart/, or something like that (not running
KDE right now so I can't check easily).