Mark Hounschell wrote:
Short of removing the useless udisks package, how can I prevent the udisk-deamon from starting. I have a number of SuSE-11.3 and 11.4 machines all of which have udisks installed. Some do not have the udisks-deamon running some do. Whats the trigger?
Thanks Mark
I don't do Gnome, but I suspect it comes from some desktop GUI environment, namely in my case this would be KDE. Now, I didn't even know/think that 11.3 had made the move away from hal to udisk - but I also don't recall exactly _when_ the change occurred. Although I don't know enough about it to exactly answer your question, I maybe can give you some ideas. My limited understanding is it is triggered from dbus-daemon, when a call is made from something like KDE looking for it. My theory also involves your statement above about how some machines have it running and some do not. What are the differences between these? For instance, do they have different (newer vs older) KDE versions? Do all machines _not_ have it running when first booted? Do some then have it start later when running something like K3B or when ejecting a CD from a CD-ROM drive? Some call from the desktop GUI environment to dbus-daemon requesting service is what prompts dbus- daemon to start udisks if it isn't running already. You can man dbus-daemon as well as possibly look at the conf files contained within /etc/dbus-1, especially under /etc/dbus-1/system.d/ there are a couple that deal with UDisks and UPower. In KDE when you look at 'Configure Desktop' and see under the 'System Administration' section the 'Actions Policy' this is an interface into those files. Also keep in mind that UDisks and UPower are generalized as replacements to HAL. Probably shouldn't try having both on the same system, e.g. a one _or_ the other. Like I said, I'm not any kind of expert - just trying to spark an idea on how you might proceed to unravel it. Hope it might be useful to you. Even though I've mentioned KDE because it's what I know, I believe Gnome also utilizes the same freedesktop.org constructs so there should be some similarity/crossover present (as well as with any other desktop GUI environment which makes use of freedesktop.org stuff) -Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org