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Kid98
04-02-2001, 01:10 PM
I am running the RH beta and have had a couple of hard lockups due to the nvidia GLX drivers not working well with the opengl 3dequalizer plugin for XMMS. This resulted in some file corruption that e2fsck reported corrected, but I have the following problem:
When I start up my desktop as root (does not occur when I am a normal user or in cli mode) a process named "magicdev" begins to try to read sector zero on my floppy. The device number for the floppy looks wrong too. (fd02??) This is the device number referred to in Messages, not what my drive really is. It continues to do this until I quit X or kill the "magicdev" process. I am a newbie with Gnome. Is there a set of config files that I can simply erase that will correct this?? Rescanning devices while in X has not helped any. It is also funny how I can use the drive when it is in this state and mount and umount it and it makes no change in the constant spinning of the drive. Any ideas??

TIA

Kid
demian
04-02-2001, 07:55 PM
DISCLAIMER: I never used gnome, so I'm not your expert.
Anyway, the problem I'd say has to do with the supermount thingy, which - I hear - RH and MD use by default. I guess the magicdev process tries to determine whether or not a medium is inserted. When you're gnome starts up it launches gmc which tries to read from floppy and possibly cd-rom devices.
So try to edit the /etc/fstab file and disable all the supermount options. Start up gnome and see what happens.
If you don't use supermount forget about what I wrote and wait for a real expert ;)
Kid98
04-02-2001, 10:45 PM
Thanks for the reply, I really rather think it is a config problem with the .gnome files. I will double check fstab but it looked ok last time I checked. Anyone else got any advice pertaining to this problem??

Regards,
Kid
Kid98
04-02-2001, 10:46 PM
Thanks for the reply, I really rather think it is a config problem with the .gnome files. I will double check fstab but it looked ok last time I checked. Anyone else got any advice pertaining to this problem??

Regards,
Kid
Kid98
04-03-2001, 11:23 AM
I had rebooted this box several times trying to see where it picked up a second floppy (that did not exist). I know there are other ways, but I am still a newbie. Anyway after doing a complete powerdown for the night, the machine stopped its strange behavior in gnome. Even though it isn't micros#$@t, sometimes a reboot is the answer to those of us with less experience.

Regards,

Kid