Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 113639
Autorun causes blinking hard drive light
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:35 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 Description of problem: Currently, as my computer sits in KDE my hard drive light will come on... come off... come on... come off. It is in regular intervals and stays lit for only 1/2 a second, and then waits 2 seconds and comes on again. I have no programs running, and the screensaver is even off. The system monitor shows nothing running, and I have shut down all of my daemons. I had Redhat 9 installed and then switched to Fedora, but I am finding no relief from this problem. These are fresh installs after I installed all of the updates to each of the OSes... has anyone else had this problem... or does anyone know how to fix it? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): autorun-3.11-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install Redhat 9 update with YUM or 2. do a fresh install of Fedora core 1 3. Actual Results: hard drive blinks ever 2 seconds continuously forever when logged into KDE... magicdev causes the same problem in Gnome. Additional info: Motherboard: Asus P4PE CPU: Pentium-4 2.4ghz 512k cache Memory: 512 mb pc2700 Hard Drive: 40gb... I think it is 100m/s CDRW: LITE-ON 52x24x52x Other people are having these same problems with similar setups: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/5/2002/11/3/35989 http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread/t-61346.html The magicdev bug is similar and needs to be fixed. It only loads up with Gnome in FC1, and causes the hard drive light to flash. In KDE this problem is caused by Autorun. If I don't shut these off when in one or the other my hard drive blinks continuously forever.
I pulled the LITE-ON cdrw drive out, and put in a different one, and the blinking stopped... something to do with Autorun, and Magicdev. Once again, the only way to get the hard drive light to shut off, is to kill Autorun in KDE, or Magicdev in Gnome... or remove the LITE-ON cdrw drive. I think these two processes need to be patched.
if you don't want it, deinstall the apps that cause your blinking: # rpm -e autorun magicdev
Uninstalling a program is not the answer to a problem with code. This should be fixed as it causes the hard drive to run incessantly.
hard drive or cdrom? does it blink, though it has a medium in it?
The hard drive blinks whether it has a cd in the tray or not. There are three ways to fix this. Fixing the code or.. Removing the Lite-on cd drive or.. Uninstalling Magicdev or Autorun. Btw, I am not flaming against Redhat/Fedora... but whatever processes Mandrake and Knoppix use to auto load cd's... it works, because the same problem doesn't happen with those distro's on the same hardware.
hmm... I'll take a look into Mandrake and Knoppix.. thx!
ok, the approach Mandrake and Knoppix have, is over automount. this cannot be done with autorun. sorry