Re: Litter In The Logs If DVD In The Drive
[quick followup]
On Friday 12 January 2007 01:24, I wrote:
> .. all the time I have a DVD in the drive (even if I'm not using the
> DVD) , the following "rubbish" litters the logs (kern.log, syslog, and
> messages) at a furious rate :
>
> Jan 12 00:08:00 localhost kernel: hdc: packet command error: error=0x50
> Jan 12 00:08:01 localhost kernel: hdc: packet command error: status=0x51
> { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
[...]
> ... my searches turned up this LKML thread as seeming most relevant :
> http://uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0103.0/0723.html
>
> It's quite a long thread, with various Linux kernel luminaries stating the
> problem is that both KDE & Gnome have a stupid process running which
> frequently polls optical drives to see what media (if any) is present ...
I think I've figured out what the process is - it's KsCD, which I usually have
minimised to the tray at all times. I discovered that if I close it down the
stupid log messages stop too ...
I should have thought of that before ... sorry.
I guess I should file a bug against KsCD; I've checked, and there's no
existing bug about it, though there _is_ a vaguely related one against an
earlier version :
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=200688
"kscd tries to read continously cdrom when a cd is ejected"
And now, back to your usual programs ...
Nick Boyce
--
Will no one rid me of this troublesome chair ?
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