runaway process udisks-daemon and how to resolve?

[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 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
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