From kde-linux Thu Jan 23 18:11:43 2014 From: James Tyrer Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 18:11:43 +0000 To: kde-linux Subject: Re: [kde-linux] Hard Disk issues Message-Id: <52E15B5F.5010309 () earthlink ! net> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-linux&m=139050074409244 On 01/22/2014 10:29 PM, Duncan wrote: > James Tyrer posted on Wed, 22 Jan 2014 21:24:06 -0700 as excerpted: > >> The fist strange issue is that KInfoCenter doesn't find my Hard Disk. > > Can't help you with that one as I don't have kinfocenter installed in my > "just what I'll use and what that requires" installation at all. (Which, > given that I follow kde-live-branch and generally have fifty-ish kde > package updates when I update every week or so already... doesn't make me > inclined to add another package I don't actually need to the list, when > the info it would provide is available at the CLI or in other GUI tools.) > Have you considered writing some scripts? :-) At least that was what I did. I found that having a script that read a text file to tell it what to do was the most efficient method. >> The other problem I am having is with Gnome-Disk-Utility which I >> installed because KDE doesn't do S.M.A.R.T. I has previously installed >> the command line S.M.A.R.T. tool: smartmontools and set it up to have >> the daemon start at boot. It appears to be working correctly. >> >> The GUI app: Gnome-Disks works and it finds all of my disks including >> the Hard Disk /dev/hdh. However, I have a Fedora 15 Live CD and on >> that, Gnome-Disks has more information and some other information that >> it it has to have obtained with S.M.A.R.T. > > While I don't have that tool installed either, I'd wonder if one or both > problems are permissions related. Presumably the liveCD has permissions > adjusted just right... either directly or (more likely) via polkit, > systemd, etc, which I know I don't have nor want on my system here. > I presume that KInfoCenter managed to find other information by reading the /proc directory. I understand that KInfoCenter uses Solid. > The other possibility is optional deps. IIRC you run LFS and build > everything yourself, right? Did you check the pre-build configure > options and/or what it detected and didn't detect, thus disabling at > build-time? > > Or attack the same thing from a different angle. Check the gnome-disks > package rpm deps from the liveCD and compare them to yours, working your > way back a level or two for things like udisks, etc. > A live CD only has an ISO of the installed system -- NO RPMs but it is still a good idea that I will try since the source didn't give much information on what it might be dependent on. I will have to download the RPM and perhaps the SRPM to see if there was anything added. >> Any ideas how to fix KDE so that it sees my disks? >> >> Any Idea what to do to get Gnome-Disks to work with S.M.A.R.T.? >> >> Or, is that an application for KDE that works with S.M.A.R.T.? > > Based on previous on-list discussion, there's an open kde feature request > bug for a kde-based smart-monitoring tool, and no such tool in > existence... directly at least. > > If I were so inclined, here, I'd probably hack-script my own solution up, > either as a superkaramba theme (my current theme can be seen filling the > top monitor-screen of three, in the screenshot here: > http://wstaw.org/m/2013/05/11/duncan-fullscreen.png ) or yasp-scripted > config (I used that before setting up superkaramba, it's available in kde- > look), or using something like kdialog notifications, based on the CLI > smartmon tool. > Actually, the Gnome app is nice if I could figure out how to have the other information working on it. Perhaps someone could simply port it to KDE. I understand that this isn't really that difficult. -- James Tyrer Linux (mostly) From Scratch ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.