Audrey Beck wrote:
> Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> >
> > I've noticed two small problems with 7.0 since I installed it.
> >
> > The first one is concerning an icon on the desktop called
> > Dos_sda1 and its associated fstab entry. When I clicked on the
> > icon to open it the system locked, cursor was stopped dead and
> > none of the ususal ctl-alt combinations would do anything. A
> > reset was needed. After a reboot the same problem occurred when
> > navigating to the /mnt/DOS_sda1/ directory with kfm. When I
> > attempted to open the /mnt/DOS_sda1/ directory with kfm the
> > system locked up again. So I tried navigating to it in a
> > console using cd, no problem here, all worked as it should. The
> > fstab entry looked like this:
> >
> > /dev/sda1 /mnt/DOS_sda1 vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0
> >
> > I changed it to:
> >
> > /dev/sda1 /mnt/DOS_sda1 vfat defaults 0 0
> >
> > and the problem went away.
>
> I have this in 6.1 for hda1. I found that if I didn't auto-mount it, but
> mounted it at the console when I logged in, it would work fine under
> kde. My other partition don't have this problem.
>
> >
> > The second one is concerning the Colors function in the Desktop
> > section of the KDE Control Center. When I attempt to install a
> > color scheme different than the default (yellow title bar) it
> > does not change, it stays the same. I cannot get rid of the
> > yellow title bar.
> >
> > Alan
Hmmmm,
Turns out these DOS mounts prepared cause a number of problems, from
sensitizing kfm to the existence of .directory files in windows
subdirectories to causing StarOffice to be unable to access files in these
partitions (capitalization of partition names).
I have users who have old windows files and the mount points I routinely
changed to
/home/username/mywindows
with gid and uid set to the user's number, rw access, and most of the same
options chosen in the creation of /DOS_hdax. The problem I have is the
.directory files freezing kfm, and it happens in 6.1 and, by a report from
Ron Stodden on Oxygen Beta 5, in that as well. I have heard there is a
mysterious and secret arcane setting for /etc/fstab that will prevent the
manufacture of dotfiles in the partition, and I wish I could find more
information on it, cause every time someone here drags a folder to the
windows partition on his desktop, I have a nice little hunt to eliminate
the files created that freeze kfm, and I have to listen to "Why did we
convert to linux anyway? Bring back Microsloth!"
Civileme
