hmmm. I haven't used XFCE in a better part of 7 years. I don't even know if it can be made keyboard controlled only. Guess I'll have to find out.
btw, the udisks-daemon problem occurs every time I restart the machine and always at random intervals after startup regardless of system load. it makes this very difficult to have any accessibility options for a portable device outside of my windows smartphone (ugh!). btw, does anyone happen to know if hall (Hardware Abstraction Layer) has any poison pills I should be aware of? -Eric On Dec 21, 2010, at 7:31 PM, Joseph Sinclair wrote: > udisks_daemon is part of DBUS and UDEV. It's the DBUS device manager for the > disks on the machine. > I have also had issues with DBUS and UDEV elements locking up the system from > time-to-time. > The only solution I've found so far is to restart the machine on occasion, > just like I used to have to do with Windows back when I ran that mess. > I have only found this instability in desktop environments like Gnome and > KDE; I have no similar stability issues with the servers I run. > It seems that the current versions of Gnome and KDE have uncovered issues in > the DBUS and UDEV subsystems with their increasing heavy (ab)use of DBUS. > > You might also try the XFCE desktop and see if that works for you; I believe > ORCA still works on XFCE, and its less complex use of DBUS might allow the > system to be more stable. > > Technomage Hawke wrote: >> ok, >> I've tried searching for a resolution through the debian bug reporting >> system without any usable results. I keep having a random occurrence of >> udisks-daemon causing my powerbook G3 to start locking up. I can killall it >> but that takes some time (as the keyboard gets locked up along with the rest >> of the machine). >> >> is there a module that calls this process? I have been unable to find a >> binary on the HD with this name. I suspect that it may be part of the dubs >> system, but with no useful information, I can't do any more without help. >> >> this is rather important as this is my only accessible notebook and I DO NOT >> have the resources to just go out and buy another one. to continue, after >> killing the above named rogue process, the machine stabilizes for a short >> time and then ORCA (the talking desktop for the blind) starts getting >> increasingly unstable eventually crashing completely. >> >> I don't like to ask for help here as I generally get the impression that I >> am an inconvenience (I'm sorry that I can't help that I am blind AND >> unemployed, but thats what life dealt me and I have to deal with it). >> >> anyway, if anyone has any suggestions on how I can resolve this issue on my >> PPC G3 750, I'd welcome the input. >> >> -Eric >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
