doc said:
When I boot my SuSE 9 Pro notebook I get a terminal window into which I must type "kde" to continue.
That spawns a second terminal window (nothing need be entered there) and the pc just boots into the desktop normally.
When I look at the first terminal window I see a process that runs continuously/repeatedly "checkForMedia(): error accessing /dev/hdc"
When I shut down I have to come back to that window and type "exit" if I want to shut down the notebook.
Per a suggestion I have run "top" to look at what is running but I am uncertain how to read the output.
Question 1: What telltale sign in all of the processes "top" is showing would indicate the "check media" process?
Check for fam and automount. One or both are watching your cdrom, to see if you put in a disk. Then they mount the disk to /media/cdrom. Check the runlevel
Question 2: What is most likely to be calling for the check media process and where might I find and delete it? (If in fact I want to delete ... perhaps I need to modify it?)
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