On Monday 30 Dec 2002 11:53 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote: > I am runing LM9 on a laptop. I periodically swap the floppy drive, the > cdrom and a 2nd hard disk in and out of a single media bay. Supermount is > installed and seems to work fine so that if any of the devices is > installed, ls /mnt/<file system> returns the contents of that device/drive. > > I have noticed that if I try to ls the filesystem for an uninstalled device > (e.g. ls /mnt/floppy when the floppy drive is not installed, or ls > /mnt/cdrom when it is not installed) the system spends a lot of time > thinking. Usually I have to kill the terminal since nothing is returned. > The rest of the system seems to work fine during this time and I have never > had to reboot. > > I think this is related to the finding that wine freezes if I try to use a > File -> Open dialog...I think it's trying to locate /mnt/floppy and > /mnt/cdrom. > > Does anyone know why the system doesn't just return nothing after ls > /mnt/<file system>, but rather thinks "forever"? Is my suspicion about > wine correct and are the problems related? Could I create a dummy floppy > and cdrom directory for wine to look at? Is there another solution other > than to turn off supermount. How would I do this? > > TIA, > Paul
I can confirm that if supermount is enabled for a device that is not present the system will hang for a considerable time when you enter the /mnt directory. I do not think it has anything to do with Wine. I got around it in my laptop by just disabling supermount for my removable floppy drive. Easy to do in Mandrake Control Centre>MountPoints Just select 'Options' and uncheck supermount. HTH derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net
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