alrighty, 'unfixing' fstab and rebooting gives back the long wait for hal the long delay for ls returns, if giving the following errors:
$ ls -ld mistress Media/Movies Media/Series wwwroot ls: mistress: Input/output error ls: Media/Movies: Input/output error ls: Media/Series: Input/output error ls: wwwroot: Input/output error (inspite of the fact that they're there as I showed you before) sudo mount -t smbfs -o dmask=777,fmask=777,uid=0,gid=0,auto,rw,nouser,credentials=/etc/fstab_smb_credentials_1 //192.168.3.1/data /home/akshoslaa/mistress gives me the familiar delay, followed by the usual "Could not resolve mount point /home/akshoslaa/mistress" now for the fun bit :P I left fstab uncommented, and changed the network drives to noauto and rebooted. No delay loading hal no errors starting kde I can ls the mount points (unmounted) without the delay or errors I can manually mount each of drives with no delays or errors (eg sudo mount mistress) and access their contents normally. This gives me a convinient enough work around, I can just set a startup script to mount the drives from noauto once kde is loaded. Now we just need to work out whats going wrong so it can be fixed properly :P (I'm still guessing it's a side effect of whatever went wrong with 43962, and once that gets fixed my problem will disappear too... -- network drives no longer mounting after update (related to #43962?) https://launchpad.net/bugs/44157 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
