HDD LED pulsing/flashing every second - any cure?

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Sat Dec 19 19:49:21 UTC 2009


On 12/19/2009 01:55 AM, Ardo Gorria wrote:
> Certainly, and thanks for looking at it for me:-
> 
> 
> 
> root at rinax:/# ps aux | grep devkit-disks
> root      1760  0.0  0.1   5012  2760 ?        S    09:37   0:00
> /usr/lib/devicekit-disks/devkit-disks-daemon
> root      1765  0.0  0.0   4824   752 ?        S    09:37   0:00
> devkit-disks-daemon: polling /dev/sr0
> root      2046  0.0  0.0   3040   800 pts/0    S+   09:52   0:00 grep
> devkit-disks

Thanks. I thought that perhaps devkit-disks might be polling for a floppy.

> root at rinax:/# apt-cache policy devicekit-disks
> devicekit-disks:
>   Installed: 007-2ubuntu4
>   Candidate: 007-2ubuntu4
>   Version table:
>  *** 007-2ubuntu4 0
>         500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>      007-2ubuntu3 0
>         500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages

That's current.

Just to eliminate devkit-disks, can you please kill the process sr0 and
see if the flashing stops?

$ sudo kill 1765

If not then

$ sudo kill 1760

Note: if you've rebooted since your last post you'll have to check
devkit-disks again to get the correct pid.






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