[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#462953: Bug#462953: hal: Continues to poll DVD devices after setting media_check_enabled to false

[Michael Biebl]

Frans Pop wrote:
> On Monday 28 January 2008, you wrote:
>> However, ps still shows the DVD drives being polled:
>> $ ps ax|grep hald-addon-storage|grep polling
>>  6721 ?        S      0:00 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/hda (every 2 sec)
>>  6735 ?        S      0:00 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/scd0 (every 2 sec)
> 
> And if I then try to disable polling using hal-disable-polling, I get:
> $ sudo hal-disable-polling --device /dev/hda
> Polling is already disabled on the given drive.
> $ sudo hal-disable-polling --device /dev/scd0
> Polling is already disabled on the given drive.
> 
> Which seems to be another confirmation that polling should already
> have been disabled.
> 

Hi Frans,

please try the following:
Remove your hand written fdi files from /etc/hal
Restart hal
Check if hald-addon-storage is running (should be)
Run hal-disable-polling --device /dev/scd0
The hald-addon-storage process should then be stopped automatically, and
you should have a correct fdi file in /etch/hal/fdi/information.

(this works for me)


Cheers,
Michael

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