I was fiddling around a bit more with this, and have found a solution of sorts. I created a new user, and when I logged in, the disk access problem did not occur. So, I removed the ~/.kde folder for existing users, and this too solved the problem. This means I lost most of my settings, but the disk access problem is gone.
There must be some setting in 3.0 that causes the disk access problem with 3.1. I am not sure how to figure out what setting that might be, though... Bruce > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Bruce, I asked the same question a couple of months ago and someone > responded to me (I am using XFS) saying that with reiser it was > happening to people who had noatime set on the partition. It's not an > "ICE" problem as far as I can tell, but it sure is annoying. It > happened to me when I upgraded to 3.1 from 3.0. It's been doing it ever > since and I've given up trying to figure out why. Maybe someone out > there has a fix? I'll sure be glad to help get rid of the problem > again... > > Now that I've said all that. lemme go check on the ICE thing..... > > > Corey > > > On Monday 20 January 2003 10:46, Bruce wrote: >> Here is the .xsession-errors file, just after logging in: >> >> startkde: Starting up... >> _KDE_IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root >> mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, >> overriding _IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to >> root >> mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, >> overriding klipper is already running! >> WARNING: KLocale: trying to look up "" in catalogue. Fix the program >> WARNING: KLocale: trying to look up "" in catalogue. Fix the program >> >> If I check again in a couple of minutes, the last line will be >> repeated a few more times (seems to be about one new line every 30 >> seconds or so is added to the file). >> >> I googled the last line and couldn't find anything that gave any hints >> to me. >> >> The only other thing I can think of is that I reinstalled my truetype >> fonts using the kcontrol modul; I think that it may have been after >> this that the constant disk access started. >> >> Bruce >> >> On Monday 20 January 2003 05:02, Jens Benecke wrote: >> > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 11:59:51PM -0500, Bruce wrote: >> > > I am running Debian on a (mostly) woody system, an HP Pavillion >> n5425 laptop, Athlon 900, 384Mb RAM, reiserfs. I've been running >> Debian on the system for about 6 months. However, one strange >> thing has started happening - constant disk access. Only >> > >> > Have look in .xsession-errors in your $HOME. Does this file keep >> growing? Perhaps there's a daemon running wild and spewing out >> error messages (e.g. artsd or whatever). > > - -- > Corey Kovacs "I know not with what weapons World > War III Computer Science will be fought, but World War > IV will be DePauw University. fought with sticks and > stones." 765.658.4761 - > Albert Einstein -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+LCVsglw65kKkYY4RApxtAJ0dua1364/hHGhdBE5A1ynAuuWzKwCgqBMb > HvELYT/ZWQH0jT8iW+dq9oI= > =SBA/ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----