>Boyce Griffith wrote: > >>I'm having an issue with Fedora Core 1 on an IBM >>ThinkPad A31. When I am logged into an account, the >>hard disk access light blinks continuously. The >>flashing is very regular and brief (there is about a >>2 >>second delay between flashes). >> >> > >you are not up_2_date ? >rhn-applet-gui, blinking alert > > >$ killall rhn-applet-gui > >$ rhn-applet-gui & > >-- >shrek-m After poking around some more, it seems that the offending processes are autorun for KDE and magicdev for Gnome. It looks like when autorun checks for a new CD, it accesses the filesystem in such a way as to cause the disk access light thing to come on... This wouldn't be a big deal, except that the flashing light makes enough of a sound to be extremely irritating. Boyce __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree
