I just recently applied all the updates recommended by kupdateapplet and now when I’m in doplhin and I double-click on a USB stick’s icon to show its files, it’s REALLY slow and does nothing for about 8-10 seconds, then it shows the folders.
The first time I click on any folder it’s also slow (about 5 seconds) and then it goes into the next folder fairly normally. HOWEVER, when i paste a file into the usb stick, it “freezes” for about 7 seconds before a window pops up saying it’s transferring it and then it does it super fast.
This never happened before and now it’s been happening for three days straight!
Just run *dmesg *a root in a terminal. It will present a lot of lines, but you will only be interrested in the last 20 or so (when you do this shortly after inserting the device).
Just plug in a stick, wait ten seconds or so to let it mount, open it in dolphin have a nose around, unmount it again…
Then open a terminal, run dmesg, and paste the last section of output. It should be fairly obvious when you plugged the stick in (it will start talking about sdX, so it helps to know what it’s been designated) - paste everything after that.
OK, I did this (typed dmesg right after it mounted the stick) but here’s what’s weird is I get a gazillion lines that have nothing to do with it (I think) all like this:
The problem with grepping is you may well be missing out important details. This, for reference, is what my debian install says when I put in a USB stick.
537.352080] usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
537.487092] usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=0951, idProduct=1603
537.487108] usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
537.487121] usb 1-2: Product: DataTraveler 2.0
537.487130] usb 1-2: Manufacturer: Kingston
537.487139] usb 1-2: SerialNumber: 0019E02CB6E45A89150A0330
537.487466] usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
537.490365] scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
537.492912] usb-storage: device found at 6
537.492927] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
542.492556] usb-storage: device scan complete
542.493298] scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
542.495902] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdd] 15679488 512-byte hardware sectors: (8.02 GB/7.47 GiB)
542.497605] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off
542.497628] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
542.497642] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
542.500655] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
542.500680] sdd:
542.610755] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk
548.313075] FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
As you can see, quite a lot of those lines don’t have 'sd’anything in. I’d have a look through and see if you can find the whole relevant block of text. You might find you need to increase the buffer in the profile options of the terminal emulator you’re using in order to scroll back far enough. Then pray for a guru, because I have no idea what any of it means.
It is interesting that it seems to be talking about eth0 though. It’s a long shot, but have you tried disconnecting your network and seeing if it still gives the same problem?
Because did dmesg first (to get a “diff” ) then I mounted the drive, I opened a folder (two actually) and then waited a bit and when I hit dmesg, there was NOTHING new! What could make that happen?