FC7 test4 Live CD runs makewhatis and prelink cron jobs

[Michael Wiktowy]

On 4/28/07, Miles Lane <miles.lane at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/27/07, Nelson Strother <xunilarodef at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >  I booted the KDE Live CD and left it sit there. A while later
> > > I noticed the CD drive seeking like crazy; it was makewhatis
> > > and prelink running. There can't be any point in running these,
> > > can there?
> >
> >   Would you like to re-open:
> >
> >   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=236498
>
> Using the Gnome LiveCD, I noticed that beagled and updatedb
> also ran after a few minutes.  It did this even though the machine
> wasn't plugged into AC.  These processes chew energy like mad.

My marginal system is drooling all over itself as I type this as I try
to kill of enough processes to get it responsive. Is there any reason
at all to run anacron on the LiveCD? It has made my system comatose.

/Mike