hal-acl-tool --reconfigure bother hdd -> work impossible

[T.O.D.]

Compiler:
gcc (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) 4.3.3

Kernel:
Linux think 2.6.28-15-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Tue Aug 18 19:25:34 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Dist:
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04
Codename: jaunty

Date:
Sat Aug 29 13:25:51 CEST 2009

hal version: 0.5.12~rc1+git20090403-0ubuntu1

Hi

I discovered that on my Thinkpad T400 WC... with 4 gig ram and 250 gig hdd. hal is bothering my hdd so often that i can't work any more. All gets choppy.

There are 2 times when this happen:

1: after 2 or 3 hours of normal work like internet, video, stuff like that

2: when i play Command and Conquer Generals with wine.

So when i boot my laptop and start playing all is fine for 1 hour or so than it began to choppy. When i then restart command and conquer is is again all fine for 5 minutes or so than it starts again to be choppy.

So with wine the effect happens faster. I don't play other things with wine but i think it would be the same with other games/programs.

With iotop i recognised that hal is the problem because it queries the hdd all the time

The command : hal-acl-tool --reconfigure

is executed by root all the time and so my hdd is spinning and i can't do anything else.

The cpu and ram are not the problem, they are in minimum or medium load

When i try to execute the hal-acl-tool command manually i get:

root@think:/home/manuel# /usr/lib/hal/hal-acl-tool --reconfigure
8259: attempting to get lock on /var/run/hald/acl-list

****************************************************
8259: got lock on /var/run/hald/acl-list
8259: reconfiguring all ACL's
8259: Cannot connect to hald: (null): (null)

****************************************************
8259: releasing lock on /var/run/hald/acl-list
root@think:/home/manuel#

So it could be possible that the root command gets the same error and tries it again and again.

Attached you find the iotop log of the 5 minutes good and then coppy cause.

Thanks

[ichudov (igor-chudov)]

I have the exact same problem, on Ubuntu Jaunty 32 bit patched to the latest.