Thanks for the strace. So the main hald process does not do any disk access during that time. So let's do a more fine-grained testing: Let's kill the addons one by one and check which one is the culprit:
ps axo pid,cmd |grep hald-addon This will show you a list of running hald helpers with their process ID number in front of it. Please use 'sudo kill <process ID>' to kill one after another and check in between whether the repeated disk access still happens. If it stops after killing a particular addon, please tell me its name. If it didn't stop, and the only processes left in ps aux|grep hal are 'hald' and 'hald-runner', then the culprit must be some other program (probably some that listens to hal via dbus) and we have to dig deeper. Thank you! -- hal's automount_enabled_hint causes disk to beep every few seconds https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/27323 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
