ok. have attaxched my fstab (gee, if it helps). yes. teh ".directory appeared w/i the dos partitions so a naturally deleted them. including verifing teh del process once i was advised about it. Now it seems i'm have no problems with the kde (kfm) when going to the /mnt directory. Here's what i was trying to do (like any other user probabely). I wanted to get a link onto my linux desktop that pointed to "/mnt/DOS_hda1/windows/desktop" (in which case i wanted also somehow to provide read/write access for the specified user) seems difficult, but i know it probabely be done securely w/i linux (linux can do anything). :) drag dropped a link to the linux desktop as user or root (can't remember). then tried accessing it from the link. this is about where the problem occurred. Most everything i'm doing has got to be mainstream and more and more users are going to try to do the same thing i'm doing (obviously). Got tired of looking thru /var since i've been up all nite setting up nfs and rebooting/restarting services, so it's littered. So i explained the problem. Shouldn't have a problem reproducing. I don't think i'll try any further tho. I have no rescue disketter for that machine since it's a "ls120" only. Man that's nasty! /dev/hda1 /mnt/DOS_hda1 vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0 /dev/hda12 /mnt/DOS_hda12 vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0 /dev/hda13 /mnt/DOS_hda13 vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0 /dev/hda14 /mnt/DOS_hda14 vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0 /dev/hda15 /mnt/DOS_hda15 vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0 /dev/hda16 /mnt/DOS_hda16 vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0 /dev/hda17 /mnt/DOS_hda17 vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0 /dev/hda18 /mnt/DOS_hda18 vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0 /dev/hda19 /mnt/DOS_hda19 vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0 /dev/hda20 /mnt/DOS_hda20 vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0 /dev/hda21 /mnt/DOS_hda21 vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0 /dev/hda22 /mnt/DOS_hda22 vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0 /dev/hda23 /mnt/DOS_hda23 vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0 /dev/hda24 /mnt/DOS_hda24 vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0 /dev/hda3 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda5 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda6 /mnt/dos ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda7 /mnt/iso ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda8 /tmp ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda9 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda10 /var ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda25 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hda26 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hda27 swap swap defaults 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0 192.168.0.2:/home/roger /home/roger nfs user,exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1 On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, you wrote: > On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 02:32:54AM -0800, Roger wrote: > > going to my /mnt directory within a kde folder freezes entire system. > > > > forget "kill" etc....only way now is to left click and maybe run ktop, if it > > isn't already open, forget it. > > > > opened up ktop prior going to this dir. killed teh task but was only able to > > left click > execute > shutdown now -r > > seems to be the only way to unfreeze system. > > > > seems to be an error with this drive/fs?? > > Seems to be an awful kfm bug. > I keep receiving reports about it (I'm the maintainer) but I still > can't figure out where this comes from, nor reproduce (no VFAT partition - > and a lot of people have one and don't have the problem anyway). > > Do you have conv=auto or conv=text in /etc/fstab ? > Is there anything logged in /var/log/messages when this happens ? > It seems this is related to .directory files. Do you have one in /mnt/* ? > Is it a normal one ? An empty one ? A directory (!) ? > > If somebody could also run kfm in gdb and give me a backtrace that would > be great. > > -- > David FAURE > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://home.clara.net/faure/ > KDE, Making The Future of Computing Available Today -- ------------ Sent from: Lattitude (deg): 32.7130 Longitude (deg): -117.1530 Altitude (ft): 410.0 GMT to Local (hrs): -8.0 (daylight savings enabled) ------------ Created with Linux-Mandrake 7.0! http://www.linux-mandrake.com/ Currently Beta Testing Mandrake Ver >7.0
