media:/ does not display hard disks

[Jeremy Lynton]

The upgrade to kdebase 4:3.4.3-0ubuntu5 due to the bug concerning USB disks
causing an error in media:/ results in media:/ no longer showing my second SATA
HD, sdb1. sdb1 is mounted, and can be viewed in /media/sdb1, but cannot be
accessed in media:/.
When I place a data CD in one of my drives, the CD appears in media:/, but if I
place a blank CD in the writer, hdb, I get the following error:
"An error occurred while loading media:/hdb:
The file or folder media:/hdb does not exist."

[renbag (renbag)]

(In reply to comment #0)
I can confirm this bug. After upgrading using the breezy-updates repository,
usb media work properly, but now DVDs are not mounted at all and konqueror shows
the error: "media:hdd does not exist". CDs are mounted but using the wrong icon
(cdwriter). All desktop icon have disappeared, including those of unmounted devices
(except the floppy one).

[Jeremy Lynton (lynton)]

(In reply to comment #1)
I should add that I cannot see ANYTHING in media:/ except my floppy drive,
unless there is a data CD or DVD inserted.

[Thomas Decoster (decoster-thomas)]

(In reply to comment #0)
I can also confirm this bug, there is nothing to see in media:/ except for my floppy drive. If I put in a CD or DVD
konqueror pops up and gives this error:

An error occurred while loading media:/hdc:
The file or folder media:/hdc does not exist.

But all the devices are still nicely mounted in /media

[Christophe Dumez (hydr0g3n)]

Same problem on amd64.

[stoeptegel (mandraakje)]

Confirmation, a fresh kubuntu 5.10 with all upgrades gives problems. See this
forum for more confirmation: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=79204

[Pietro Piutti (chromewave)]

(In reply to comment #1)
I can confirm this bug too. After a full update (on Nov 4th 2005) following a
fresh Kubuntu install, the media:/ folder now shows only the floppy drive and
not the other storage devices (one dvd-r and two NTFS partitions, these two ones
mounted at boot). Storage devices icons on the desktop besides floppy have all
disappeared. Cd-r's and dvd-r's behave differently when inserted: cd-r's are
automounted as expected and their contents show up automatically in the pop-up
Konqueror window, while dvd-r's are not automounted and the pop-up window
displays the error: An error occurred while loading media:/hdc: The file or
folder media:/hdc does not exist."

[ralphdewitt (ralphdewitt)]

I can also confirm this bug with a updated breezy as of Nov 6th 2005. When I put a photo cd in the DVD/CDrom
drive I get the error "An error occurred while loading media:/hdc:
The file or folder media:/hdc does not exist." I also on have only the floppy icon appearing in /media. The
floppy also does not work but that is subject of a previous open bug.

[Nial (nial-murray-manulife)]

I can confirm this bug. I upgraded a few days ago...... everything was fine. Then upgraded again
today, now all I have in my Media:/ is my diskette drive!

[Mlt (mlt)]

My CD-RW/DVD-ROM combi-drive on my laptop is unable to detect DVDs. When putting a DVD in the
drive for example I get the following in Konqueror:

 An error occurred while loading media:/hdc:
 The file or folder media:/hdc does not exist.

 This also happens in gnome when it just sort of ignores the disc, but totem will say:

 Failed to find mountpoint for device /dev/hdc in /etc/fstab

 Needless to say there is one. My current fstab is the same as the one I had that produced a
fully functioning DVD drive.

 This seems similar to other problems that have been posted, except USB drives mount perfectly
as do computer Cd's. Audio CDs also play and can be ripped without a problem. Both are
autodetected.

[Nils Trebing (nils-trebing)]

For me, media:/ doesn't work either. I'm currently using the KDE 3.5 packages from
kubuntu.org, but it didn't work with 3.4.3 either. I remember it worked for some time, IIRC
after the first KDE upgrade from breezy-updates, but after the second update, I couldn't
restore that behaviour, not even by downgrading kdebase-kio-plugins.

The behaviour of media:/ looks somewhat different depending on whether I use the ubuntu
2.6.12-10-686 kernel package or my own build of 2.6.14.3 whose .config I have generated by
using the original .config of 2.6.12-10-686 and running make oldconfig.

In all cases, USB thumb drives, data CDs and so on get mounted, but in most cases, I can't
access them using media:/, but only via /media/.

With 2.6.12-10-686, my USB thumb drive gets mounted and I can view its contents at, IIRC,
media:/sda1 or media:/usbdisk. Data CDs also get mounted, but I get the error "media:hdc does not
exist" in konqueror.

With 2.6.14.3, the USB drive also gets mounted, but konqueror just takes forever loading
"media:/sda1" and doesn't say anything else. Data CDs exhibit the same behaviour (of course,
substituting media:/hdc for media:/sda1)

[Joe (lunar-raven)]

I also have this problem.

[Florian Trück (florian-trueck)]

i can confirm this bug.
it looks like a problem with pmount,
because if I start ivman in user mode it displays pmount usage messages.
this shows that there is a bug in the usage of it.

maybe this could help: http://pastebin.ca/36264
I made this on a german installation.

[jennyb (jennyb)]

I found this thread while searching for a solution to why I can't see/access my removable USB memory since I installed Breezy, although the same device was available in Hoary till I upgraded yesterday.

[wintergrasp (wintergrasp)]

I confirm the bug.
It appears that hal fails to detect the fstype, sending and empty string to ivman, causing the pmount usage messages.

[Martin Kühl (mkhl)]

I can also confirm the bug.
An easy fix I found is the one described in [1] though, which might explain why hal fails to detect the fstype -- insufficient permissions.

[1] http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=645412&postcount=20