autorun / magicdev issue? [Was: Blinking Disk Access Light]

[Boyce Griffith]

>Boyce Griffith wrote:
>
>>I'm having an issue with Fedora Core 1 on an IBM
>>ThinkPad A31.  When I am logged into an account, the
>>hard disk access light blinks continuously.  The
>>flashing is very regular and brief (there is about a
>>2
>>second delay between flashes).
>>  
>>
>
>you are not up_2_date ?
>rhn-applet-gui, blinking alert
>
>
>$ killall rhn-applet-gui
>
>$ rhn-applet-gui &
>
>-- 
>shrek-m

After poking around some more, it seems that the
offending processes are autorun for KDE and magicdev
for Gnome.  

It looks like when autorun checks for a new CD, it
accesses the filesystem in such a way as to cause the
disk access light thing to come on...  This wouldn't
be a big deal, except that the flashing light makes
enough of a sound to be extremely irritating.


Boyce

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