KDE and hdparm (was: Re: [gentoo-user] Disable fcron logging)

[Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>]

Mick writes:

> On Sunday 22 August 2010 22:39:47 Alex Schuster wrote:

> > BTW, my two additional drives spin up when I log into KDE. Weird,
> > they are not even mounted.
> 
> From KDE-4.4.4 the start up interferes with the hard drives:
> 
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/232044
> 
> I don't why but it does, messes up any settings that hdparm may have
> set up and p*sses me off.  o_O
> 
> As soon as KDE starts up (even when waking up from suspend to ram) it
> resets the drives.  I haven't found a way of telling it how to behave
> (i.e. by respecting existing settings in hdparm).

Argh, that's annoying. Thanks for the information. O well, first I 
setuid'ed hdparm to make it work as a user, then I reverted that back as I 
started it in /etc/init.d/local, and now I'm again setuid'ing it so I can 
set the settings from /etc/conf.d/hdparm in ~/.kde4/Autostart/.

I filed a bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=248905
You might want to vote for it so it gets some attention and will hopefully 
be fixed soon.

	Wonko