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grooveman Veteran
Joined: 24 Feb 2003 Posts: 1217
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Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2013 1:45 am Post subject: [Solved] KDE no longer sees usb or cdrom |
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Hi,
Just updated to kde 4.10.4, and I noticed that my neither my device notifier, dolphin, or any other part of kde acknowledges USB drives or my cdrom.
I removed my .kde4 directory to wipe all preferences to see if that would help, but of course it didn't. I couldn't find it in the system settings... so I'm not sure what is going on here.
I can mount my cdrom and usb drives just fine on the command line, but for whatever reason, kde no longer sees them.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
G _________________ To look without without looking within is like looking without without looking at all.
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Vorlon Apprentice
Joined: 16 May 2003 Posts: 246 Location: West Grove, PA
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Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 12:45 pm Post subject: |
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I've had this problem when dbus is not running.
Try "/etc/init.d/dbus start".
It also may be a problem wtih udev, which allows the system to recognize hardware events. udev always confused me, so I can't help you diagnose that (sorry). _________________ Casey Bralla
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grooveman Veteran
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Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 1:28 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
Thanks, but dbus is definitely running. I found that the problem has to do with udisks and this file: /lib64/libudev.so.1. I don't think it has anything do with KDE.
In an attempt to get around this problem I did this:
Code: | ln -s /lib64/libudev.so.1 libudev.so.0 |
(this was in the /lib64 dir)
Now the errors have gone away, but I haven't been able to reboot my system to check if it works now because I'm remoted into to many boxes the past couple days. Hopefully later today I will find out if it fixed it, and post back. My only question is: Why didn't the library update itself appropriately? I shouldn't need to make a link. I don't know if this is a bug in portage, or what. My system is consistent...
Will follow up either way...
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VoidMage Watchman
Joined: 14 Oct 2006 Posts: 6196
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Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 1:42 pm Post subject: |
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Seems you've failed to run revdep-rebuild (or that other - in-portage - option).
Though now, obviously, due to that link, revdep-rebuild will fail to discover this particular problem again (unless you run it with '-L libudev.so.0'). |
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grooveman Veteran
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Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 2:14 pm Post subject: |
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VoidMage wrote: | Seems you've failed to run revdep-rebuild (or that other - in-portage - option).
Though now, obviously, due to that link, revdep-rebuild will fail to discover this particular problem again (unless you run it with '-L libudev.so.0'). |
I ran revdep-rebuild several times -- each time saying it was 100% consistent. I also ran 'emerge @preserved-rebuild', which also drew in no new packages. Which is why I was saying this was odd... It seems like that should have fixed it. _________________ To look without without looking within is like looking without without looking at all. |
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Jack Hair n00b
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Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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I've also had this problem when I didn't have "ConsoleKit" running. |
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VoidMage Watchman
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Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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Well, on occasions, revdep-rebuild needs to be run as root to detect some of the issues.
Though perhaps your version of gentoolkit was a little bit too much out of date (I do seem to recall that around the time libudev got that library version bump, there was a gentoolkit version that failed to detect a problem with one of the low level libraries - not sure if that was libudev though). |
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grooveman Veteran
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Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 4:26 pm Post subject: |
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Ok. Was able to reboot, and I can confirm that my work-around works. I'd rather that revdep-rebuild caught that... but at least it is working.
Thanks for your input, and have a good one everyone!
-G _________________ To look without without looking within is like looking without without looking at all. |
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