Amarok's device manager sets the HAL property volume.ignore=TRUE when you select do not handle for a device. This means the device cannot be used in any application that uses HAL to do mounting. This is incorrect behavior. Also I can't figure out how to reverse the setting. I deleted the entries for the device from amarokrc and rebooted but the volume.ignore setting persists, which means my device doesn't showup in the media:/ view.

Anybody know how to fix this. In any case amarok's behavior should be changed. According to the HAL spec volume.ignore should be set to true only for system partitions and the like. Certainly not for removable devices.

To fix this I had to rm -rf /etc/hal /usr/share/hal and re-install hal

I strongly suggest that amarok's behavior be changed.

I strongly suggest a bug report on http://bugs.kde.org

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122634

I don't see your bug report. Did you post a new bug that actually reports that the current behaviour is incorrect according to the spec? The bug you referred to is a different case.

oops wrong link

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151051

What makes you think that Amarok set the volume.ignore property? The fact that removing files from /usr/share fixed it for you suggests that it was a program running as root which did it, as I assume that you didn't run Amarok with superuser privileges.

Because the setting was stored in amarokrc.