The situation is as follows
Any system with linux-mandrake 6.0, 6.1 or 7.0 (Beta 5) And I
don't know about AIR, with a mounted vfat partition accessible
to the logged user in rw mode. AND it DOESN'T MATTER if you
specify dotsOK=No or nodots in the mount or in /etc/fstab
Try this
1. Open the mounted partition's directory in a kfm window.
2. Grab the Templates folder from your kde desktop (any
non-empty folder will do but some won't copy because there are
dotfiles in them {if you have nodots set}) and drag it to the
mounted vfat open window. Select Move or Copy.
3. You will see a message window indicating the file
activity.
4. Kfm will freeze partway through redisplaying the vfat
partition window
5. Kfm will continue to freeze every time you try to open the
window
Go to windows or to a console and look at the folder you
dragged. You will find a .directory file there
System function will return to normal once you delete that
.directory file
Well, in converting to mandrake from windows here, we moved
data files to the workgroup server, restructured the disk and
moved the files back in just a few cases. Some users had a
huge number of Claris works text files, *.cwk, which we had no
filters for, and we left windows semi-functional (no network
access but able to boot) so files could be converted to *.rtf
as needed before being snared by StarOffice in linux. Every
single move of folders to the windows partitions produced the
freeze.
Now those of you who are having freezes in AIR with DOS_sda1,
DOS_hda1 may find a few settings that will get you in to put
in fstab, but also check folders in the freezing partitions
for the .directory files which may be causing the freeze. kfm
starts taking up to 99.3% of processor time when this freeze
happens, indicating it might be hung in a loop.
Civileme
