<html> <head> <style></style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> Eric wrote: > Thanks Tom! That at least gave me a hint as to where this is happening. > I used the sledgehammer approach of removing the DeviceKit-disks package > entirely. That works, but a very cryptic error window does pop up every > time I plug in a disk, and I don't get optical media automounted either. > There ought to be a better solution, but this at least solves my immediate > problem. a lighter hammer : mv /usr/libexec/devkit-disks-daemon /usr/libexec/devkit-disks-daemon.hide and also kill the running deamons if you want it to work before next boot: COLUMNS=720 ps -eo pid,ppid,uname,tty,stat,etime,time,pcpu,args | egrep -ie 'dev.*kit' | fgrep -v grep 1623 1 root ? S 21:00:54 00:00:22 0.0 /usr/libexec/devkit-power-daemon 1987 1 root ? S 21:00:36 00:00:00 0.0 /usr/libexec/devkit-disks-daemon 1996 1987 root ? S 21:00:34 00:00:00 0.0 devkit-disks-daemon: not polling any devices kill 1996 1987 works without any annoying error pop-ups. John <hr />Windows Live: Make it easier for your friends to see <a href='http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9691811' target='_new'>what you’re up to on Facebook.</a></body> </html>