Re: runaway process udisks-daemon and how to resolve?

2010-12-22 Thread Technomage Hawke
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 make

Re: runaway process udisks-daemon and how to resolve?

2010-12-21 Thread Joseph Sinclair
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 d

Re: runaway process udisks-daemon and how to resolve?

2010-12-21 Thread Technomage Hawke
yes I have. the process would still take 99% CPU and progressively lock up the system, only it would just take a little longer -Eric On Dec 21, 2010, at 6:09 PM, Stephen wrote: > Have you tried setting nice. Might be a more graceful bandaid. > > On Dec 21, 2010 5:23 PM, "Technomage Hawke" >

Re: runaway process udisks-daemon and how to resolve?

2010-12-21 Thread Stephen
Have you tried setting nice. Might be a more graceful bandaid. On Dec 21, 2010 5:23 PM, "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 powerboo

runaway process udisks-daemon and how to resolve?

2010-12-21 Thread Technomage Hawke
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 r