how to disable media:/ feature?

[Derek Broughton]

paul cooke wrote:

> On Tuesday 31 January 2006 15:13, Donatas G. wrote:
>>
>> COULD ANYBODY CONFIRM THAT THEY HAVE THE MEDIA:/ THING WORKING CORRECTLY
>> WITH FLOPPIES, CD'S, DVD'S AND FLASH STICKS?
>>
I don't have a floppy, but the rest all work just fine (as well as my USB
drive)
> 
> I have issues with it as well. Various media players don't like the media
> path...
> 
> Konqueror regularly objects when auto opening a DVD. with the message "An
> error occurred while loading media:/hdc:
> The file or folder media:/hdc does not exist."
> 
> the drive itself exists in fstab as:
> /dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0

I really think this is a potential problem.  media:/ is definitely _not_
intended to work with fstab.  Anything that's in fstab shouldn't be
using /media as a mountpoint - that's for pmount.
> 
> there is a mount point available of:
> /media/cdrom0
> 
> so why the heck it can't mount it I don't know
> 
> When you have a folder opened via clicking on the desktop icon, I find you
> can't create a new folder in the device.

That sounds to me like it's caused by the fstab entry - note that you _have_
told it you want a read-only filesystem.

> But when I use Kdiskfree, I can 
> use kdiskfree to access the device and that konqueror window can create
> folders in the device.

Which probably used media: and the media kio slave.
> 
>> As far as I am concerned, this media:/ malfunction breakes a lot of
>> functionality in KDE. IT IS A HIGH PRIORITY BUG TO FIX.

I think, if anything, it's a documentation error.  The process works fine
for me.  The number one problem I see is people wanting automounting but
putting entries into fstab.
-- 
derek