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