Hi, Indeed, it seems that you are right when you say that udev is not reponsible for this. I found out that a process from devicekit-disks and one related with hal is polling my cd-rom drive so often:
root 1632 0.0 0.2 3336 1192 ? S 23:51 0:00 hald-runner root 1698 0.0 0.2 3400 1140 ? S 23:51 0:00 hald-addon-input: Listening on /dev/input/event0 /dev/input/event2 /dev/input/event1 106 1700 0.0 0.2 3256 1112 ? S 23:51 0:00 hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpid socket /var/run/acpid.socket root 1701 0.0 0.2 3404 1128 ? S 23:51 0:00 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/hdc (every 2 sec) root 1991 0.0 0.5 5036 2844 ? S Jan21 0:00 /usr/lib/devicekit-disks/devkit-disks-daemon root 1992 0.0 0.1 4796 888 ? S Jan21 0:00 devkit-disks-daemon: polling /dev/hdc If I kill the devkit-disks-daemon process, then the problem dissapears. ii hal 0.5.14-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer ii hal-info 20091130-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi files ii libhal-storage1 0.5.14-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - shared library for storage ii libhal1 0.5.14-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - shared library ii devicekit-disks 009-2 abstraction for enumerating block devices ii devicekit-power 013-1 abstraction for power management Cheers!. On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:46:51 +0100 [email protected] (Marco d'Itri) wrote: > On Dec 27, Marco d'Itri <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Great. Try renaming it and then you will have verified that udev is not > > responsible for this. (Obvious suspects: HAL, gnome-volume-manager.) > > If you need help, /msg Md on freenode. > Are there any news? > > -- > ciao, > Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

