Francesco Caimmi wrote: > Hi all, > I hope this is the right place to ask for help. > I have just installed KDE 3.4 packages from blastwave. The installation > process was succesfull, but on my first login the desktop was... empty. Trash > icon was the only one standing there. > As I like to have my devices icons on the desktop (but IIRC from my linux > days there should be also something called "computer" and something like > "network" there) I opened the desktop configuration tool and asked for icons > of mounted devices to appear on the desktop... with no effect... > I plugged an usb key ... and nothing happend. > With increasing fear I fired Konqueror... all of the file systems (even the > usb key mentioned above) were right at their place but if the "media:/" > folder is empty as the desktop. > I made a link to a device on the dektop but when I tried to open it an error > showed up: > ' "vold" is not running '. Now I understand that this has something to do > with volume managment, but I can't go any further. > I am running SunOS 5.11 snv_76 on a x86 platform > If somebody has some suggestions they will be greatly appreciated. >
Blastwave packages are really not well suited, in many respects, for the most modern versions of Solaris. This is one example. OpenSolaris has no vold. It uses something called the "hal", which newer desktop environments understand. Probably rebuilding KDE from scratch would work. I understand that there is the SFE repositories, though I confess that I'm totally ignorant of them, and how they work. :-) But perhaps someone else here can point you in the right direction. -- Garrett PS: Last time I tried, any of the blastwave packages that brought in GTK font support were very, very toxic on OpenSolaris. To the point that the only way to get back to a working desktop was to reinstall from scratch. I strongly discourage the use of blastwave on OpenSolaris... as long as the packages it has are built on Solaris 8 there are going to be issues with some of the "layered" software, such as most GUI apps. (Yes, this indicates major ABI bustage. But, the Solaris ABI guarantee has never been applied to higher layers in the stack as the Gnome/GTK libraries. There is a strong indication that many in the FOSS world working with other operating systems have little or no clue as to what ABI compatibility is, why it is good, and how to ensure it.)
