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KDE autorun problem in Fedora C3/C4
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| Terry E. Dwyer 2006-02-13, 2:47 am |
| Both C3 & C4 start KDE autorun on the opening KDE desktop after
a boot. There is no CD in the drive but it runs until a timeout of 30 to
45sec. This must be a Fedora rather than KDE problem since other distros
use KDE 3.3/3.4 without this behaviour.
In C3 autorun doesn't respond to a CD(autorun doesn't run).
You can uninstall KDE autorun but then on boot there is a popup
complaining about it.
The files /etc/autorun.misc & auto.master seem to have no relevance to
KDE.
Any fixes/ideas ?
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| Some Other Somebody Else 2006-02-13, 7:46 am |
| On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 01:06:43 -0500, es290@ncf.ca (Terry E. Dwyer)
wrote:
> Both C3 & C4 start KDE autorun on the opening KDE desktop after
>a boot. There is no CD in the drive but it runs until a timeout of 30 to
>45sec. This must be a Fedora rather than KDE problem since other distros
>use KDE 3.3/3.4 without this behaviour.
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> In C3 autorun doesn't respond to a CD(autorun doesn't run).
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> You can uninstall KDE autorun but then on boot there is a popup
>complaining about it.
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> The files /etc/autorun.misc & auto.master seem to have no relevance to
>KDE.
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> Any fixes/ideas ?
This isn't a total fix, but if you delete or move
$HOME/.kde/Autostart/Autorun.desktop then KDE will not attempt to
start autorun when you log on. At least, that is the way it worked
the last time I tried it, with CentOS 4; I don't know if there is a
difference in FC3 or FC4. Also, I wonder if what you are seeing
running until it times out is just the "busy cursor" that KDE displays
when autorun starts. If so, if you type "ps -A | grep autorun" you
may find that the autorun process is actually still running after the
blinking icon disappears. That behavior can be disabled from the KDE
control panel.
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| Terry E. Dwyer 2006-02-13, 5:50 pm |
| Some Other Somebody Else wrote:
>On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 01:06:43 -0500, es290@ncf.ca (Terry E. Dwyer)
>wrote:
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>This isn't a total fix, but if you delete or move
>$HOME/.kde/Autostart/Autorun.desktop then KDE will not attempt to
>start autorun when you log on. At least, that is the way it worked
>the last time I tried it, with CentOS 4; I don't know if there is a
>difference in FC3 or FC4. Also, I wonder if what you are seeing
>running until it times out is just the "busy cursor" that KDE displays
>when autorun starts. If so, if you type "ps -A | grep autorun" you
>may find that the autorun process is actually still running after the
>blinking icon disappears. That behavior can be disabled from the KDE
>control panel.
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The ps -A command didn't show autorun still running. Moving
Autorun.desktop fixed it. This is probably just an annoyance rather than
a real problem but it doessuggest something is wrong.
Autorun of course doesn't work after applying the fix but I never liked
it's autonomous behaviour anyway.
Thanks for your assistance.
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