You can disable polling (which is better and more permanent than the "killall hald-addon-storage"), for example like this for any device with "Generic Flash HS" in its UDI:
lshal | grep '^udi.*Generic_Flash_HS' | cut -f3 -d" " | xargs -i+ hal- disable-polling --udi + In my case, it was a card reader in the monitor that I don't use anyway. -- [Karmic] USB Card Reader Malfunction - clutter in DMESG https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/452519 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs