David Zeuthen wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 10:41 +0200, Guillaume Chazarain wrote:
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>>[Follow-up to http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=109239500600001&r=1&w=2]
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>Thanks a lot for following up; sorry for the lag, I had to moderate the
>message to get through and I only just saw the message
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I am not very fast either ;)

>>Unfortunately, the problem did not disappear with the upgrade :(
>>As soon as I access my ZIP, even with "head -c1 /dev/hdd", the
>>infinite loop is back, using 100% of my little PentiumIII 450.
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>Does this happen even while hald is not running? I guess it really will
>happen even though hald is not running, because of this message from the
>syslog
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>Aug 17 22:25:40 localhost udev[23814]: configured rule in '/etc/udev/rules.d/51-udev-persistent.rules' at line 3 applied, 'hdd4' becomes '%k'
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>Try moving that file out of the way and see if it happens again.
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Right, it happens also when hald is not running and hiding the file 
causes the infinite loop to
go away. I attached the file for information, it's a vanilla fedora/udev 
one.

>>The only way to stop the loop is to mount the ZIP or to eject it.
>>In the latter case hald will crash.
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>Ugh, that's bad, care to send a backtrace?
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Sorry, forgot to download the source while at work. It will be for 
tomorrow it seems :(

Thanks for your help.

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Guillaume