[gentoo-user] Re: usb stick autodiscovery

[James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>]

Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes:


> configured the same - do you mean when you get with right-click tray-icon -> 
> Device Notifier Settings?

yes

> > I cannot find witch ebuild has (plasmoid?) device notifier in it.
> > part of knotify?....dunno....?
> 
> I beleive it's /usr/lib64/kde4/plasma_applet_devicenotifier.so which is in 
> plasma-workspace:
> 
> $ equery belongs /usr/lib64/kde4/plasma_applet_devicenotifier.so
>  * Searching for /usr/lib64/kde4/plasma_applet_devicenotifier.so ... 
> kde-base/plasma-workspace-4.5.2 
> (/usr/lib64/kde4/plasma_applet_devicenotifier.so)
> 
> There's nothing in that ebuild to indicate conditionals or DEPENDs.
> 
> near the top of CMake builds you will find a list of all the stuff the build 
> system found to support and what it didn't. Is that list the same on all 
> machines?

If this is what you refer to in the devicenotifier.so file 
(then yes)



0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libplasma.so.3]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libkio.so.5]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libsolid.so.4]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libkutils.so.4]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libkdeui.so.5]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libkdecore.so.5]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libQtDBus.so.4]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libQtCore.so.4]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libQtGui.so.4]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libstdc++.so.6]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libc.so.6]
 0x000000000000000e (SONAME)             Library soname:
[plasma_applet_devicenotifier.so]
 0x000000000000000f (RPATH)              Library rpath: [/usr/lib64:/usr/lib64/qt4]
 0x000000000000001d (RUNPATH)            Library runpath: [/usr/lib64:/usr/lib64/qt4



I hack and rebuilt all kinds of stuff. Still the device notifier does
not pop up, as it does on other systems. Now the device is seen,
but it is empty on the problem system. I put the usbstick into
another system and it's fine. I've been through the kernel settings
for usb devices and file systems and they are the same and the same
version of the kernel (2.6.34-gentoo-r6).

What I have noticed is device notifier gives me many more choices
on my workstation than the borked workstation. It used konqueror 
instead of Dolphin. I do not know where to change this. The
config of device notifier, is rather spartan and I cannot find
where to set konqueror instead of dolphin as the default file manager
to open up the usb stick files and dirs.

Even if I cd into the (/media/device) dir it is empty.

I'm stumped. The system has been updated and everything is
fixed I can find, so it's gotta be in the kde4 config files?


James