You might consider not using subfs with your floppy, try setting this to auto and try the mount again.

For the problem itself you should attach `hwinfo --floppy' and 200 lines of your syslog in /var/log/messages. Thanks.

Created attachment 63708 [details]
This is the output of hwinfo --floppy

There is nothing in the file messages.

Created attachment 63711 [details]
syslog

found the log

I changed subfs to auto and added users to the /dev/fd0 line.  I also changed the permissions to the My Computer folder on the desktop and to the floppy icon inside My Computer.  When I restarted the computer I could access my floppy.  I don't know which one fixed it.  This should be looked at to determine why the My Computer icon has problems.  I had a similar problem with 9.3 but there I gave up and used a workaround.  I put a shortcut to /media on my desktop and that worked so I never solved the My Computer issue.  On 10 the media solution didn't work so I had to stick to it.

for the next time: please attach only pure txt files, it's much easier to read for us, thanks.

check if the resmgr is running: rcresmgr status.

how was the floppy formated?

The floppy was formatted on a Windows XP Machine and had files on it that had been saved from an instance of Linspire.  I had backed up my Kmymoney file and then installed Suse 10.  I was attempting to save the Kmymoney file to the harddrive.  I have a friend who just installed Suse 10 from DVD and he has no problems.  I have had the My Computer problem on three computers.  Could it have anything to do with the motherboard or the floppy controller on a older board?

The permissions for the My Computer folder were set to allow read only for users and groups.  The Floppy icon inside was set to forbidden for users and groups.  I changed these in root to be read and write.  I then had to reboot and now I can access the floppy through My Computer.  I'm not sure if that is what did it however because I had also made the fstab changes that you and others had suggested.

Sorry about the files, I'll remember to attach .txt next time.

OK, this seems to be a problem either with subfs (kernel) or how KDE handles this access. I'll take both kernel- and KDE-maintainers into CC for comments.

Jim: You suppose it's a hardware problem?

I'm not sure.  I have had this problem on two computers with Gigabyte motherboards I built four years ago and on a six year old Compaq my sister owns.  In Suse 9.3 I still have not resolved the issue but in 10 the above resolutions worked.  My friend built a computer with AMD 64bit and he used the DVD installation.  His setup works perfectly.  I can get more accurate specs if you want them, I'm not at home right now.

Maby it's a problem with the floppy controller used on these boards. It's a wide shot, but just to be on the safe side, please add /var/log/boot.msg here.

Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.6.11.4-21.10-default
Loaded 22823 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.6.11.4-21.10-default.
Symbols match kernel version 2.6.11.
No module symbols loaded - kernel modules not enabled.

klogd 1.4.1, log source = ksyslog started.
<4>Linux version 2.6.11.4-21.10-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 3.3.5 20050117 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #1 Tue Nov 29 14:32:49 UTC 2005
<6>BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
<4> BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
<4> BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
<4> BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
<4> BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000fff0000 (usable)
<4> BIOS-e820: 000000000fff0000 - 000000000fff8000 (ACPI data)
<4> BIOS-e820: 000000000fff8000 - 0000000010000000 (ACPI NVS)
<4> BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
<4> BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
<4> BIOS-e820: 00000000fffc0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
<5>0MB HIGHMEM available.
<5>255MB LOWMEM available.
<6>found SMP MP-table at 000fba20
<7>On node 0 totalpages: 65520
<7>  DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
<7>  Normal zone: 61424 pages, LIFO batch:14
<7>  HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
<6>DMI 2.3 present.
<7>ACPI: RSDP (v000 AMI                                   ) @ 0x000fa690
<7>ACPI: RSDT (v001 AMIINT AMIINI09 0x00000010 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x0fff0000
<7>ACPI: FADT (v001 AMIINT AMIINI09 0x00000011 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x0fff0030
<7>ACPI: MADT (v001 AMIINT AMIINI09 0x00000011 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x0fff00c0
<7>ACPI: DSDT (v001    VIA   VIA_K7 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x00000000
<6>ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808
<6>ACPI: local apic disabled
<6>Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4
<6>    Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
<6>OEM ID: GIGABYTE Product ID: 7VKML        APIC at: 0xFEE00000
<4>Processor #0 6:7 APIC version 17
<6>I/O APIC #2 Version 2 at 0xFEC00000.
<6>Processors: 1
<4>Allocating PCI resources starting at 10000000 (gap: 10000000:eec00000)
<4>Built 1 zonelists
<4>Kernel command line: root=/dev/hdb3 vga=0x31a selinux=0  splash=silent resume=/dev/hdb2
<6>bootsplash: silent mode.
<6>Initializing CPU#0
<4>PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 16384 bytes)
<4>Detected 1111.337 MHz processor.
<6>Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
<4>Console: colour dummy device 80x25
<4>Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
<4>Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
<6>Memory: 254388k/262080k available (1866k kernel code, 7028k reserved, 658k data, 204k init, 0k highmem)
<4>Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
<7>Calibrating delay loop... 2195.45 BogoMIPS (lpj=1097728)
<6>Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
<6>SELinux:  Disabled at boot.
<4>Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
<7>CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383fbff c1c7fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
<7>CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0383fbff c1c7fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
<6>CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
<6>CPU: L2 Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line)
<7>CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383fbff c1c7fbff 00000000 00000020 00000000 00000000 00000000
<6>Intel machine check architecture supported.
<6>Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
<4>CPU: AMD Duron(tm) Processor stepping 00
<6>Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
<6>Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
<6>Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
<6>checking if image is initramfs... it is
<6>Freeing initrd memory: 1444k freed
<6>ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initrd... not found!
<4> not found!
<4>ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0c00)
<6>NET: Registered protocol family 16
<6>PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb31, last bus=1
<6>PCI: Using configuration type 1
<6>mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
<6>ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050211
<6>ACPI: Interpreter enabled
<6>ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
<6>ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
<4>PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
<6>PCI: Via IRQ fixup
<7>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
<6>ACPI: Power Resource [URP1] (off)
<6>ACPI: Power Resource [URP2] (off)
<6>ACPI: Power Resource [FDDP] (off)
<6>ACPI: Power Resource [LPTP] (off)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
<6>Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
<6>pnp: PnP ACPI init
<6>pnp: PnP ACPI: found 12 devices
<6>PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
<6>PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq".  If it helps, post a report
<4>TC classifier action (bugs to netdev@oss.sgi.com cc hadi@cyberus.ca)
<6>apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
<5>apm: overridden by ACPI.
<6>audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
<3>audit(1138739215.863:0): initialized
<4>Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
<5>VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
<4>Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
<6>Initializing Cryptographic API
<6>vesafb: framebuffer at 0xdc000000, mapped to 0xd0880000, using 10240k, total 32768k
<6>vesafb: mode is 1280x1024x16, linelength=2560, pages=5
<6>vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:77a0
<6>vesafb: scrolling: redraw
<6>vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
<6>bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6> silentjpeg size 81978 bytes,<6>...found (1280x1024, 54169 bytes, v3).
<4>Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 158x59
<6>fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
<6>isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
<6>isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
<6>Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
<6>PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f03:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
<6>serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
<6>serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
<6>Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 48 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
<4>ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
<4>ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
<4>ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
<4>ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
<6>io scheduler noop registered
<6>io scheduler anticipatory registered
<6>io scheduler deadline registered
<6>io scheduler cfq registered
<6>Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
<6>FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
<4>RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 64000K size 1024 blocksize
<6>loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
<6>mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
<6>input: PC Speaker
<6>md: md driver 0.90.1 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
<6>NET: Registered protocol family 2
<6>IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
<4>TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
<4>TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
<6>TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
<6>NET: Registered protocol family 1
<7>PM: Checking swsusp image.
<7>PM: Resume from disk failed.
<4>ACPI wakeup devices: 
<4>PCI0 UAR1 PS2M PS2K  USB USB1  AC9  MC9 
<6>ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
<6>Freeing unused kernel memory: 204k freed
<6>input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
<4>logips2pp: Detected unknown logitech mouse model 85
<6>Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
<6>ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
<6>input: ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse on isa0060/serio1
<6>VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:11.1
<4>    ACPI-0367: *** Warning: Unable to derive IRQ for device 0000:00:11.1
<4>ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:11.1[A]: no GSI
<6>VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
<6>VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
<6>VP_IDE: VIA vt8233a (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci0000:00:11.1
<6>    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:DMA
<6>    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
<7>Probing IDE interface ide0...
<4>hdb: WDC WD800BB-55JKC0, ATA DISK drive
<4>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
<7>Probing IDE interface ide1...
<4>hdc: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4163B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
<4>hdd: HITACHI DVD-ROM GD-7500, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
<4>ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
<6>hdb: max request size: 128KiB
<6>hdb: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
<6>hdb: cache flushes supported
<6> hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 hdb4 < hdb5 >
<6>hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
<6>Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
<6>hdd: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33)
<4>Attempting manual resume
<7>PM: Checking swsusp image.
<3>swsusp: Suspend partition has wrong signature?
<7>PM: Resume from disk failed.
<5>ReiserFS: hdb3: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
<5>ReiserFS: hdb3: using ordered data mode
<4>reiserfs: using flush barriers
<5>ReiserFS: hdb3: journal params: device hdb3, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
<5>ReiserFS: hdb3: checking transaction log (hdb3)
<5>ReiserFS: hdb3: Using r5 hash to sort names
<5>ReiserFS: hdb3: Removing [3872 55571 0x0 SD]..done
<5>ReiserFS: hdb3: There were 1 uncompleted unlinks/truncates. Completed
<6>bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on
<6>md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
<6>md: autorun ...
<6>md: ... autorun DONE.
<6>Adding 787176k swap on /dev/hdb2.  Priority:42 extents:1
<6>device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
<6>cdrom: open failed.
<6>NTFS driver 2.1.22 [Flags: R/W MODULE].
<6>NTFS volume version 3.1.
<3>NTFS-fs error (device hdb1): load_system_files(): Volume is dirty.  Mounting read-only.  Run chkdsk and mount in Windows.
<3>FAT: Unrecognized mount option "nls=utf8" or missing value
Kernel logging (ksyslog) stopped.
Kernel log daemon terminating.

Boot logging started on /dev/tty1(/dev/console) at Tue Jan 31 20:27:23 2006

Master Resource Control: previous runlevel: N, switching to runlevel: 5
<notice>checkproc: /sbin/udevd 2278
Starting D-BUS daemon<notice>startproc: execve (/usr/bin/dbus-daemon-1) [ /usr/bin/dbus-daemon-1 --system ], [ CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=reiserfs TERM=linux SHELL=/bin/sh ROOTFS_FSCK=0 INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.85 INIT=/sbin/init REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=158 PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/lib/klibc/bin vga=0x31a RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG=/etc/bootsplash/themes/SuSE/config/bootsplash-1280x1024.cfg ROOTFS_REALDEV=/lib/klibc//dev/hdb3 PREVLEVEL=N LINES=59 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 splash=silent SPLASH=yes ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/hdb3 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/bin/dbus-daemon-1 ]
done
Starting syslog services<notice>startproc: execve (/sbin/syslog-ng) [ /sbin/syslog-ng ], [ CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=reiserfs SHELL=/bin/sh TERM=linux ROOTFS_FSCK=0 INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.85 INIT=/sbin/init REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=158 PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/lib/klibc/bin vga=0x31a RUNLEVEL=5 SPLASHCFG=/etc/bootsplash/themes/SuSE/config/bootsplash-1280x1024.cfg PWD=/ ROOTFS_REALDEV=/lib/klibc//dev/hdb3 PREVLEVEL=N LINES=59 SHLVL=2 HOME=/ SPLASH=yes splash=silent ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/hdb3 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/sbin/syslog-ng ]
<notice>startproc: execve (/sbin/klogd) [ /sbin/klogd -c 1 -x -x ], [ CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=reiserfs SHELL=/bin/sh TERM=linux ROOTFS_FSCK=0 INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.85 INIT=/sbin/init REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=158 PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/lib/klibc/bin vga=0x31a RUNLEVEL=5 SPLASHCFG=/etc/bootsplash/themes/SuSE/config/bootsplash-1280x1024.cfg PWD=/ ROOTFS_REALDEV=/lib/klibc//dev/hdb3 PREVLEVEL=N LINES=59 SHLVL=2 HOME=/ SPLASH=yes splash=silent ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/hdb3 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/sbin/klogd ]
done
Loading keymap qwerty/us.map.gz
doneLoading compose table winkeys shiftctrl latin1.adddone
Start Unicode mode
doneLoading console font lat9w-16.psfu  -m trivial G0:loadable
doneSetting up network interfaces:
    lo        
    lo        IP address: 127.0.0.1/8   
doneInitializing random number generatordone
<notice>pidofproc: dhcpcd 5228
<notice>startproc: execve (/sbin/resmgrd) [ /sbin/resmgrd ], [ CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=reiserfs TERM=linux SHELL=/bin/sh ROOTFS_FSCK=0 INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.85 INIT=/sbin/init REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=158 PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/lib/klibc/bin vga=0x31a RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG=/etc/bootsplash/themes/SuSE/config/bootsplash-1280x1024.cfg ROOTFS_REALDEV=/lib/klibc//dev/hdb3 PREVLEVEL=N LINES=59 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 splash=silent SPLASH=yes ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/hdb3 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/sbin/resmgrd ]
<notice>checkproc: /sbin/dhcpcd 5228
Starting resource managerdone
    eth0      device: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
    eth0      configuration: eth-id-00:20:ed:31:f6:01
    eth0      IP address: 192.168.0.9/24 (DHCP was already running)
doneSetting up service network  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .done
<notice>startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/mdnsd) [ /usr/sbin/mdnsd -f /etc/rendezvous.conf -b ], [ CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=reiserfs TERM=linux SHELL=/bin/sh ROOTFS_FSCK=0 INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.85 INIT=/sbin/init REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=158 PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/lib/klibc/bin vga=0x31a RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG=/etc/bootsplash/themes/SuSE/config/bootsplash-1280x1024.cfg ROOTFS_REALDEV=/lib/klibc//dev/hdb3 PREVLEVEL=N LINES=59 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 splash=silent SPLASH=yes ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/hdb3 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/mdnsd ]
Starting mdnsddone
<notice>startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/nmbd) [ /usr/sbin/nmbd -D -s /etc/samba/smb.conf ], [ CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=reiserfs TERM=linux SHELL=/bin/sh ROOTFS_FSCK=0 INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.85 INIT=/sbin/init REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=158 PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/lib/klibc/bin vga=0x31a RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG=/etc/bootsplash/themes/SuSE/config/bootsplash-1280x1024.cfg ROOTFS_REALDEV=/lib/klibc//dev/hdb3 PREVLEVEL=N LINES=59 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 splash=silent SPLASH=yes ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/hdb3 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/nmbd ]
Starting Samba NMB daemon done
<notice>startproc: execve (/sbin/portmap) [ /sbin/portmap ], [ CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=reiserfs TERM=linux SHELL=/bin/sh ROOTFS_FSCK=0 INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.85 INIT=/sbin/init REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=158 PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/lib/klibc/bin vga=0x31a RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG=/etc/bootsplash/themes/SuSE/config/bootsplash-1280x1024.cfg ROOTFS_REALDEV=/lib/klibc//dev/hdb3 PREVLEVEL=N LINES=59 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 splash=silent SPLASH=yes ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/hdb3 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/sbin/portmap ]
Starting RPC portmap daemondone
Importing Net File System (NFS)unused
Starting nfsboot (sm-notify) done
<notice>startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/cupsd) [ /usr/sbin/cupsd ], [ CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=reiserfs TERM=linux SHELL=/bin/sh ROOTFS_FSCK=0 INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.85 INIT=/sbin/init REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=158 PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/lib/klibc/bin vga=0x31a RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG=/etc/bootsplash/themes/SuSE/config/bootsplash-1280x1024.cfg ROOTFS_REALDEV=/lib/klibc//dev/hdb3 PREVLEVEL=N LINES=59 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 splash=silent SPLASH=yes ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/hdb3 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/cupsd ]
Starting cupsddone
Starting hardware scan on bootStarting sound driver:  emu10k1done
<notice>startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/rpc.mountd) [ /usr/sbin/rpc.mountd ], [ CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=reiserfs TERM=linux SHELL=/bin/sh ROOTFS_FSCK=0 INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.85 INIT=/sbin/init REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=158 PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/lib/klibc/bin vga=0x31a RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG=/etc/bootsplash/themes/SuSE/config/bootsplash-1280x1024.cfg ROOTFS_REALDEV=/lib/klibc//dev/hdb3 PREVLEVEL=N LINES=59 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 splash=silent SPLASH=yes ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/hdb3 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/rpc.mountd ]
Starting kernel based NFS serverdone
<notice>startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/nscd) [ /usr/sbin/nscd ], [ CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=reiserfs TERM=linux SHELL=/bin/sh ROOTFS_FSCK=0 INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.85 INIT=/sbin/init REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=158 PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/lib/klibc/bin vga=0x31a RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG=/etc/bootsplash/themes/SuSE/config/bootsplash-1280x1024.cfg ROOTFS_REALDEV=/lib/klibc//dev/hdb3 PREVLEVEL=N LINES=59 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 splash=silent SPLASH=yes ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/hdb3 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/nscd ]
Starting Name Service Cache Daemondone
<notice>startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/smbd) [ /usr/sbin/smbd -D -s /etc/samba/smb.conf ], [ CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=reiserfs TERM=linux SHELL=/bin/sh ROOTFS_FSCK=0 TMPDIR=/var/tmp INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.85 INIT=/sbin/init REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=158 PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/lib/klibc/bin vga=0x31a RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG=/etc/bootsplash/themes/SuSE/config/bootsplash-1280x1024.cfg ROOTFS_REALDEV=/lib/klibc//dev/hdb3 PREVLEVEL=N LINES=59 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 splash=silent SPLASH=yes ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/hdb3 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/smbd ]
Starting Samba SMB daemon done
Mount SMB/ CIFS File Systems unused
<notice>startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/sshd) [ /usr/sbin/sshd -o PidFile=/var/run/sshd.init.pid ], [ CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=reiserfs TERM=linux SHELL=/bin/sh ROOTFS_FSCK=0 INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.85 INIT=/sbin/init REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=158 PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/lib/klibc/bin vga=0x31a RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG=/etc/bootsplash/themes/SuSE/config/bootsplash-1280x1024.cfg ROOTFS_REALDEV=/lib/klibc//dev/hdb3 PREVLEVEL=N LINES=59 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 splash=silent SPLASH=yes ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/hdb3 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/sshd ]
Starting SSH daemondone
<notice>startproc: execve (/opt/kde3/bin/kdm) [ /opt/kde3/bin/kdm ], [ LC_MONETARY= CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=reiserfs TERM=linux SHELL=/bin/sh ROOTFS_FSCK=0 LC_NUMERIC= QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3 LC_ALL= INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.85 INIT=/sbin/init KDEROOTHOME=/root/.kdm REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=158 PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/lib/klibc/bin LC_MESSAGES= vga=0x31a RUNLEVEL=5 LC_COLLATE= PWD=/ SPLASHCFG=/etc/bootsplash/themes/SuSE/config/bootsplash-1280x1024.cfg LANG=en_US.UTF-8 ROOTFS_REALDEV=/lib/klibc//dev/hdb3 PREVLEVEL=N LINES=59 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 XCURSOR_THEME=crystalwhite WINDOWMANAGER=/usr/X11R6/bin/kde LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 splash=silent SPLASH=yes LC_TIME= ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/hdb3 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/opt/kde3/bin/kdm ]
Starting service kdmdone
<notice>startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/powersaved) [ /usr/sbin/powersaved -d -x /usr/lib/powersave/scripts -a resmgr -v 3 ], [ CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=reiserfs TERM=linux SHELL=/bin/sh ROOTFS_FSCK=0 INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.85 INIT=/sbin/init REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=158 PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/lib/klibc/bin vga=0x31a RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG=/etc/bootsplash/themes/SuSE/config/bootsplash-1280x1024.cfg ROOTFS_REALDEV=/lib/klibc//dev/hdb3 PREVLEVEL=N LINES=59 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 splash=silent SPLASH=yes ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/hdb3 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/powersaved ]
loading ACPI modules (ac battery button fan processor thermal ) done
Starting powersaved  (accessing ACPI events over acpid) done
Starting mail service (Postfix)done
<notice>startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/cron) [ /usr/sbin/cron ], [ CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=reiserfs TERM=linux SHELL=/bin/sh ROOTFS_FSCK=0 INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.85 INIT=/sbin/init REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=158 PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/lib/klibc/bin vga=0x31a RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG=/etc/bootsplash/themes/SuSE/config/bootsplash-1280x1024.cfg ROOTFS_REALDEV=/lib/klibc//dev/hdb3 PREVLEVEL=N LINES=59 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 splash=silent SPLASH=yes ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/hdb3 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/cron ]
Starting CRON daemondone
<notice>startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/hald) [ /usr/sbin/hald --daemon=yes ], [ CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=reiserfs TERM=linux SHELL=/bin/sh ROOTFS_FSCK=0 INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.85 INIT=/sbin/init REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=158 PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/lib/klibc/bin vga=0x31a RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG=/etc/bootsplash/themes/SuSE/config/bootsplash-1280x1024.cfg ROOTFS_REALDEV=/lib/klibc//dev/hdb3 PREVLEVEL=N LINES=59 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 splash=silent SPLASH=yes ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/hdb3 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/hald ]
Starting HAL daemondone
<notice>checkproc: /opt/kde3/bin/kdm 6249
Starting service kdmdone
Starting Firewall Initialization (phase 2 of 2) SuSEfirewall2: Warning: ip6tables does not support state matching. Extended IPv6 support disabled.
done
Master Resource Control: runlevel 5 has been reached
Skipped services in runlevel 5: nfs smbfs
<notice>killproc: kill(3501,3)

KDE- and kernel maintainers are still in CC. We'll have to wait for another comment of them. Jim: If you can find a solution of your own here, feel free to propose it.

From comment #4 "When I restarted the computer I could access my floppy.  I
don't know which one fixed it."

This isn't solved?

well, he changed from the suse default (subfs) to auto, which of course works. we had a media manager crash regarding that (reported somewhere and I thought we issued an update for that) but I can't find the bugid right now..

Jim: Does the problem still exist? Can you check out if this problem does still exist in 10.1 latest Beta? AFAIK subfs will ne dropped anyway ;)

My issue with 10 is indeed solved.  The fixes described above corrected the issue.  The bigger question at hand is why does this happen?  I can't tell you but I will continue to supply whatever help I can.  The solution above did not solve the problem with 9.3 but I have a workaround there.  I created a link on my desktop to /Media and I can mount floppies from there.  Eventually I will upgrade to 10 on my machine but have not at this time.  Since I now have a stable fully functioning load on my wife's machine I will not be upgrading her anytime soon.  When I go to 10 on my machine I will go to the latest stable version and will let you know.

We're no longer using subfs in SL10.1, so I would rather not spend many cycles debugging it here.  I think the 10.1 solution will be much nicer.