Top Document: SGI admin Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Previous Document: -83- Why don't the desktop admin tools recognize root as a privileged user? Next Document: -85- Why doesn't my mediad start up under IRIX 5.3? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Date: 02 Mar 1996 00:00:01 EST Install patch 1096. If you still have problems, read on. Thanks to Anne Eagle <annee@milamber.csd.sgi.com> for the following: This is a known bug both in 5.2 and 5.3. Essentially, the desktop icons stop responding to insertion/removal of mediad, although the media itself is mounted properly and is accessible either from the command line or by opening your home directory and then changing to /CDROM or /floppy or starting cdman by hand or whatever is appropriate for the media. Double clicking on the icon for the peripheral results in a dialog saying that the drive is unloaded, which of course it is not. Here are a number of workarounds. If the first doesn't work, try the second, and so on. Below, if the command begins with the "%" symbol, that command can be executed by any user. Commands beginning with "#" must be executed by root. * Restart the File Manager: % /usr/lib/desktop/telldesktop quit % fm -lrb * Restart both the File Manager and mediad: % /usr/lib/desktop/telldesktop quit % su - # /etc/init.d/mediad stop # /etc/init.d/mediad start # exit % fm -lrb * Restart the File Manager, mediad and the objectserver: % /usr/lib/desktop/telldesktop quit % su - # /etc/init.d/mediad stop # /etc/init.d/cadmin stop # /etc/init.d/cadmin start # /etc/init.d/mediad start # exit % fm -lrb * See if the icons from the Shared Resources in the upper right hand corner of the System Manager are responsive to insertion/removal of media. If so, access the icons from the System Manager. * Reboot the system: # reboot * The media will have to be accessed by hand. Open a directory view either by double-clicking on the home directory icon or choosing "Desktop/Home Directory" from the Toolchest. Then change to the appropriate directory for the device. For instance, the floppy or floptical drives are access by default from /floppy and the CDROM from /CDROM. Find the "cdman" icon via "Find/An Icon" and then double click on it to listen to music CD's over the scsi audio port. See also the Sep/Oct 1994 Pipeline. Greg Morlock <gmorlock@osmre.GOV> fixed his device icons by adding entries to the local copy of /etc/passwd for each NIS user, with no password and a '+' at the beginning of each userid. Alternatively, mediad may never have started; see the next question. User Contributions:Top Document: SGI admin Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Previous Document: -83- Why don't the desktop admin tools recognize root as a privileged user? Next Document: -85- Why doesn't my mediad start up under IRIX 5.3? Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: sgi-faq@viz.tamu.edu (The SGI FAQ group)
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