On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:22 AM, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 11:04 -0400, Gerb Stralko wrote: >> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:55 AM, James Bottomley >> <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 10:35 -0400, Gerb Stralko wrote: >> >> So is that printk really needed? Should the kernel even need to print >> >> a message like that, esp. if user-space is handling state updates and >> >> notifications. Or do i need to configure hald to be quietier? FWIW >> >> I'm using fedora core 9 and hald version: >> >> -bash-3.2$ /usr/sbin/hald --version >> >> HAL package version: 0.5.11 >> > >> > Actually, I misspoke; it's set internally via sets of ioctls. However, >> > it's designed only to show on ioctls that do medium requiring things. >> > >> > I'm also using FC9 and I see no such messages (and for noisy cgc, >> > they're printed out for every action on the CD). You have some >> > application that's poking the CD wrongly (probably not hal), so you >> > really need to find out what it is. It may be pointing to some other >> > error in the kernel that needs fixing, but simply removing the message >> > is covering up the issue. >> > >> > To help track the application, you could update the printk to print out >> > current->comm and current->pid. That would tell you who is responsible >> > >> > James >> > >> > >> > >> Okay, i'll do some investigation and see if I can track this down, >> I'll let you know. Thanks for the info. >> >> Are you using GNOME or KDE? I'm currently using KDE. > > I'm using gnome ... there are intermittent reports of kde problems > mainly with k3b though (the burner program), but if you put the printk > in it should identify the application. > > James > > > I download the fedora updates and I rebooted and the messages went away from my dmesg. I left my computer on for a few hours and no message. So I guess I problem was fixed in one of the updates. Thanks for you help. Sorry for the noise. thanks again, Jerry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
