On Friday 21 February 2003 06:43 pm, zentara wrote:

On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 16:53:04 -0500

PL O'Smith wrote:

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Hi all, I seem to remember several here complaining about their hard drive led blinking about every 5 seconds and seeing a solution to it as well. I don't remember when those mails come out, so don't know which month to look for them in the Archives.

Does someone remember the fix, cause, etc., so that I might investigate also. I seem to remember it had something to do with reiserfs and something. I'll try looking at the help files Togan provides us too as it might be listed there. If something comes to mind, please pass it along.

There was alot of people asking this, and they had different causes. Search the archives for "hard disk" in the subject. A google search might help you.

1. 1 fellow needed to stop the updatedb from running in a manner which flushes some buffers every 5 secs. 2. one thing was about some glitch in Win4lin, are you running that?

The best thing you can do, is log on as root, with no X running. Then look at "top" and "ps auxww" and start eliminating apps until the clicking stops. Then that is your app.

Check your logs, one of your apps may be writing something to the system logs every 5 secs. ======================= Thanks zentara, I did manage to find the previous mails about the 5 second HD blink. None of what was discussed seem to apply to me though. I don't run Win4Lin and only have a small partition of reiserfs installed, which unmounting that didn't make a difference.

So I started stopping processes to check things. I went to init 3 and the blinking stopped. I looked at the processes running anyway, then rebooted. Booted to the login screen and still no HD blinking lite. Logged into KDE and blinking started again. Run the problem/bug down to the "kded" process. Stopping that seem to eliminate the problem, but I am told that is the kde daemon and could/should not be stopped. So I am curious, now what is kded and how is it causing minor HD activity? patrick --- KMail v1.5 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...

On Friday 21 February 2003 08:53 pm, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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Hi all, I seem to remember several here complaining about their hard drive led blinking about every 5 seconds and seeing a solution to it as well. I don't remember when those mails come out, so don't know which month to look for them in the Archives. (snip) (snip again) So I started stopping processes to check things. I went to init 3 and the blinking stopped. I looked at the processes running anyway, then rebooted. Booted to the login screen and still no HD blinking lite. Logged into KDE and blinking started again. Run the

PL O'Smith wrote: problem/bug down to the "kded" process. Stopping that seem to eliminate the problem, but I am told that is the kde daemon and could/should not be stopped.

So I am curious, now what is kded and how is it causing minor HD activity?

I do not know the answer to your last question, *but*, cupsd checks for print requests every 5 seconds and loged the request to /var/log/cups/access_log until I updated to cups-1.1.18-0 (was 1.1.16).

Could this be the cause?? -- Patrick Shanahan

Thanks Patrick & zentara, Seems that this is a known bug/problem with the new KDE 3.1, I suppose, altough I did run across a mail from someone using 7.3 and KDE 3.0.4 as well having the problem. The KDE team already have been alerted to the problem and issued this response: The interval settings have been moved from kdedrc (in your home directory ~/.kde/share/config to kdeglobals in the same place. Edit that file and add CheckSycoca=false and CheckUpdates=false under the [General] heading to either your kdedrc for KDE3.0 or kdeglobals if using KDE3.1. This worked for me! I killed kded process then restarted it. The 5 sec blink is gone now. Thanks for all that put a thought into this, hope this helps someone else experiencing the same. Patrick --- KMail v1.5 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...