KDEInit Issue
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I have a USB to IDE converter, I have this plugged into a hard drive, and it normally works great. Yesterday I plugged it in and Mepis brought up a box asking me what I wanted to do with the drive when I plugged it in. Usually I tell it do nothing, and go on, but this time I had the brilliant idea of choosing one of the choices, and then even more brilliantly I chose to make this change permanent.
So, now I did this and the first thing that happened is I received a message that says KDEInit could not mount \mnt\sda1. I thought this is strange, it has never done this before, so I click OK to the box and it goes away, but my drive never opens. SO there on the desktop is the mount point for my drive, I click on that, and I get the same error. So now I am thinking what do I do, I mad the change permanent, I unplug the drive, plug it back in same thing. So I figure I screwed it up, and will have to do a search to fix it later. Now I try and access My Documents from the link on my desktop for that, and guess what, same error. I have come to discover that what ever I did for the USB drive has also made it impossible for me to access my local HD as well, unless I am using Konqueror in SU mode, and then I can access stuff.
Any ideas on what settings I need to change Or what file I need to edit, and how I need to edit it. Thanks in advance for your help.
I don't remeber
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I know I rebooted, but I do not remember if I did so with the drive disconnected.
If you want to see what I selected just plug in a USB drive, a box will apear and ask you what you want to do, everything from open in a new window to do nothing. At the bottom there is a check box that says do this every time. I chose something that said open safely or something like that. and then checked off the check box. Now I am stuck.
My question is why is it affecting my built in HD as well?
FYI the is Mepis 6, and I am pretty much patched up, although I need to run update again soon.
Warm Regards
Chris
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new A.Einstein
I don't remeber
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"I know I rebooted, but I do not remember if I did so with the drive disconnected."
That sounds like the place to start disconnect that bad boy and reboot again. I have a usb flash drive i will play with maybe it will shed some light on the situation. What ever you did seems to have effected your permissions somehow. You might look at your /etc/group file for obvious missing user name next to some of the groups.
jim
Cool I will look tonight
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I will also need to do a better job of editing my responses. Spelling errors everywhere. That is what I get for typing too fast. My interenet has not been hooked up at my new place yet, so I won't be able to respond later. I will keep checking here for any new replies while I am at work, and then again tomorrow. Thanks for your help.
Warm Regards
Chris
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new A.Einstein
Cool I will look tonight
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Another thought is create another user account till it can be fixed. My flash drive didnt give an option of choices so it was no help , it just opened with konqueror. I didnt catch the type o till you mentioned it you told on yourself.
jim
I tried it with the drive unplugged.
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Still no luck, then I forgot which file you told me to look at. I have written it down now so I will have it tonight. I will let you know tomorrow if it worked.
Warm Regards
Chris
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new A.Einstein
I created a new user
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This has fixed my issue. I looked at the etc/group file, and did not find anything wrong.
Also when I connected the drive to it I did not receive the message I recieved before either. I may just move forward using this user.
Warm Regards
Chris
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new A.Einstein
KDEInit Issue
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Have you rebooted then rig since you made the mistake? Pluggable devices are handled by udev and it might clean up the problem with a reboot. I dont have any idea what you clicked though if you can remember what it was it might help a lot. But if you havent allready done so i would try a reboot.
jim