Re: Thousands of erroneous syslogs about media changes

[Takeshi Hakamata <tkh@example.com>]

At Mon, 9 Jul 2001 16:45:18 +0900,
SN_Diamond wrote:
> > >
> > > Thousands of times.  And the longer the machine stays up, the more
> > > thousands.  There is no CD in the drive.  Where is this coming from?
> >
> > I had this problem before. If you use gnome, see if the process called
> > 'magicdev' is running and kill it. It is polling CD-ROM to see if a
> > CD is inserted or not. You can disable magicdev by unchecking
> > 'mount CD automatically' in gnome control center.
> 
> You are right, it is magicdev.  Do you know why those syslogs didn't occur
> under kernel 2.2.16?  CDs were mounted automatically before, so I think
> magicdev was running before.

I don't know. At least Alan Cox thinks that it is not a kernel
issue, but the bad behavior in magicdev.

Takeshi