Widget crash problem (tdw devicemanager-automount widget) wasYet another problem

[scbs29]

Apologies if I should have appended this to my earlier posts, but since it is a different problem I thought I would open a new topic.
Yet another problem with KDE4 (see earlier topic http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,71362.0.html)
Tried to access a CD, not automounted. Since there is now no My Computer I had to mount from the cli. No big deal but yet another thing
to put off people trying Linux.
Saw in a topic http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,61588.0.html that someone else had the same problem. The suggestion was to download  the devicemanager-automount widget and use this instead of the default one. I did this and tried to add it to the panel. My system then crashed, similarly to the report in http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,64529.0.html. This was reported 1/11/2009, and the reply from KDE was
This is rather an issue in the devicemanager-automount(unofficial) widget: bug
192766, or some of the weird crashes that appeared on the KDE packages of
PCLinuxOS. In any case it is not KDE fault. Closing as DOWNSTREAM.

In my case, though, not only did it crash but it locked my system and I had to alt-sys rq-reisub to get out. When I rebooted I tried again and when I dragged the widget to the panel it seemed to shutdown X, because my system went to a login prompt.
Still getting the do_IRQ: 0.83 No irq handler for vector (irq -1) message.
Out of interest, I booted from the live PCLos Gnome cd and tried the things shown in my earlier topic. Installed Wine, installed Windows apps,
created launchers on toolbar, no problems at all. No error messages, no crashes.
Due to all of the problems which I am having I am seriously considering ditching KDE4 and using Gnome or going back to KDE3.5

Nothing special about my system, Pentium 4 dual core 3GHz, 2Gb RAM, ASRock P4VM890 mobo, NVidia GForce 7950 GT.

[Rudge]

I am trying to dispher your post well enough to understand what your problem is.

If I am reading it correctly, your problem is that CDs are not auto mounting?

[Krisbee]

scbs,

When you say "Tried to access a CD, not automounted", are talking about an audio CD or a data CD? Audio CDs are not mounted.

There can be quirks in the way PCLOS assigns "owner/group" to optical drives.  I would first check your optical drive(s) permissions, groups, links etc. What's the output of these CLI commands?

1. ls -l /dev/cd*
2. ls -l /dev/dv*
3. ls -l /dev/sr*

Double check your user group membership at the CLI with

4. groups

Also check the optical drive mount points look sane in the PCC (control centre)

I have a DVD-writer and a DVD-rom.  When I installed 2010 my dvd-rom ended up with an owner/group of root/floppy which meant audio CDs were not correctly detected or playable.  I fixed that by adding a udev rule -   /etc/udev/rules.d/61-block_config.rules

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# needed as 2010 places /dev/sr1 my cdrom on root/floppy
SUBSYSTEM=="block", KERNEL=="sr1", OWNER="fred", GROUP="cdrom"
Substitute your user name for fred and sr1 for your device..

[menotu]

Hi scbs29,

Apologies if I should have appended this to my earlier posts

Did the right thing - its always best to have a new post for different problems.

Whilst Rudge and Krisbee are helping you, you may want to consider changing your post subject to something along the lines of "CD Automount problem" or something similar and then its far easier for all forum members to search and come across it if they too have similar problems (it is just a suggestion though  )

[scbs29]

Thanks for replies.
To all who replied, the problem is not that a data cd does not automount I am not bothered whether it does or not, since as I said in my 1st post I can do that easily from the cli.
The latest problem to which I am referring is that trying to add the devicemanager-automount widget to the panel crashed my
system to such an extent that the only way out was alt-sys rq-reisub.
All of the information about cd mounting was only to 'set the scene' for what I was experiencing and why I was trying to do what I did.

[menotu]

Thanks for subject change scbs29 - appreciated