exactly same problem here (kde 3.4.1, gentoo). I messed around with kde-svn.ebuild, updating to the new hal api (>0.5) and pmount. since then, I can't start the media manager anymore. reverting the system to kde 3.4.1 didn't help. pmount relies on hal 0.5, which has a different api compared to hal 0.4x. Support for the new hal is in kde 3.5 and above only, so pmount doesn't work with stock kde 3.4.1 anyways. you need to patch kdelibs or update to kde 3.5 I digged a bit in websvn, and found the d...