USB stick can't display contents - FC9

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Mon May 19 00:51:56 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 20:46 -0400, Jim wrote:
> Jim wrote:
> > Bill Davidsen wrote:
> >> Jim wrote:
> >>> FC9, Plugin USB stick/flash drive and I get error message.
> >>>
> >>> URL cannot be listed
> >>> system:/media/sdc1
> >>>
> >>> It opens the Dolphin file manager but folders/files are not displayed.
> >>>
> >>> If I try to drag a file into Dolphin I get the Error Message;
> >>>
> >>> Could not start process Unable to create io-slave: klauncher said: 
> >>> Unknown Protocol 'system' .
> >>>
> >> So is the problem that the stick is not mounted, or that this 
> >> "dolphin" application isn't working properly? Is it mounted? Does 
> >> "df" show the stick? Does "ls" list the contents.
> >>
> >> It's not clear exactly which part isn't working and how much of the 
> >> problem lies with the tools you are using after mount.
> >>
> > Using df shows that stick is not mounted after it is plugged in and 
> > fails to read stick.
> >
> > I shut down all open windows.
> >
> > Then I go to Menu > System > Dolphin and open Dolphin and at that time 
> > the sdc1 stick is mounted and you can read, write sdc1.
> >
> > Then I do a df and then it shows as mounted.
> >
> >
> >
> Can Dolphin be deleted without taking out all other KDE apps.
> I don't like Dolphin, I prefer Konqueror, I have gotten to where I can 
> spell it now.

You still have Konqueror, it hasn't gone anywhere.

poc




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