I collect old time radio programs and store the main collection on a 320GB sata drive on my desktop computer. I export the sound directories with nfs, so that I can connect to my sound files either from my laptop or my wife's desktop.
The desktops, as well as the laptop are running opensuse 10.2. All the computers are behind a Linksys router, so all the SuSE firewalls are turned off. The laptop needs to connect to nfs directories both at work and at home, as well as changing wireless connection settings, so the settings are switched with scmp and the wireless card settings are made with ifup, not Network Manager (because Network Manager can't deal with changing nfs connections). The symptom I notice is that frequently amarok will go into a state where it appears to be trying to access the database of files and won't play the next track, won't allow you to select any functions, etc, until it's done its thing. While this is occurring I also cannot see my network connections in Konqueror - just the little symbol that it's trying to load them is spinning. Even after wiping the database in amarok and telling it not to look at network connections for my sound files, this behaviour continues. I'm trying to figure out if this is an amarok problem or an nfs problem, or a little of both. I know amarok has issues with sqlite for larger databases but I haven't been able to get it to switch to mysql. But I suspect the real problem is my nfs connections are being dropped and not re-connected again. Some one like to point me through the minefield? Thanks, Bob -- Bob Smits [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
