Hello

On a Debian Etch machine, running KDE3, whenever a USB stick is inserted into the drive, the splash screen for OpenOffice.org comes up and then an error message media/sda1 cannot be found.

I've gone through the system and nothing is mounted under media, nor is there any record of the drive in the fstab.

In searching around, I found that these actions seemed to be controlled by .kde/share/config/medianotifierrc as well as .kde/share/config/profilerc

Taking the chance, I mv both of these files to give them different names and inserted a USB stick, but same problem again. Again, no mounted system found anywhere.

Clearly some configuration file upstream controls how these two files are written and hence the action of triggering OOo, but I cannot track down that file responsible for recreating the two config files.

In the past, the USB stick would be automatically mounted and an icon displayed on the desktop. In Gnome this works fine, and when I create a testing account in KDE, it all works fine as well. The problem I suspect is that the user has made an association of some sort between the USB default handling routine and OOo, but she can't remember doing that, and I can't track down the fix.

Any suggestions on overcoming this?

Thanks

Look in "Storage Media" and find the OpenOffice action and ensure it is not set to "Automatic"

bcooksley wrote:Look in "Storage Media" and find the OpenOffice action and ensure it is not set to "Automatic"

If you mean via the KControlCenter/ Peripherals option, then having just looked there there is no OOo action available. It is just "do nothing" and "open", neither of which seem to have any other options/ properties to tweak.

This problem seems to go deeper/ further than checking or unchecking an option, and I suspect that it has something to do with an upstream configuration file that may govern how media, etc. are dealt with.

Cheers

Try looking in File Associations for anything media related, and ensure OpenOffice isn't associated.