also afects my notebook msi GX630 hal eats more battery when the cdrom polling is enabled(for my notebook it is -20 minutes), i didnt find a way to stop it, when i try sudo hal-disable-polling --device /dev/cdrom *** buffer overflow detected ***: hal-disable-polling terminated ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x50)[0xb767d350] /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(+0xe128a)[0xb767c28a] /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(+0xe19a8)[0xb767c9a8] hal-disable-polling[0x80492bf] /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6)[0xb75b1bd6] hal-disable-polling[0x8048c01] ======= Memory map: ======== 08048000-0804a000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 785731 /usr/bin/hal-disable-polling 0804a000-0804b000 r--p 00001000 08:03 785731 /usr/bin/hal-disable-polling 0804b000-0804c000 rw-p 00002000 08:03 785731 /usr/bin/hal-disable-polling 08c31000-08c52000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] b7540000-b755d000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 130900 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 b755d000-b755e000 r--p 0001c000 08:03 130900 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 b755e000-b755f000 rw-p 0001d000 08:03 130900 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 b755f000-b7561000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b7561000-b7568000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 135268 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/librt-2.11.1.so b7568000-b7569000 r--p 00006000 08:03 135268 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/librt-2.11.1.so b7569000-b756a000 rw-p 00007000 08:03 135268 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/librt-2.11.1.so b756a000-b7599000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 130958 /lib/libpcre.so.3.12.1 b7599000-b759a000 r--p 0002e000 08:03 130958 /lib/libpcre.so.3.12.1 b759a000-b759b000 rw-p 0002f000 08:03 130958 /lib/libpcre.so.3.12.1 b759b000-b76ee000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 135238 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.11.1.so b76ee000-b76ef000 ---p 00153000 08:03 135238 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.11.1.so b76ef000-b76f1000 r--p 00153000 08:03 135238 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.11.1.so b76f1000-b76f2000 rw-p 00155000 08:03 135238 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.11.1.so b76f2000-b76f5000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b76f5000-b770a000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 135264 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread-2.11.1.so b770a000-b770b000 r--p 00014000 08:03 135264 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread-2.11.1.so b770b000-b770c000 rw-p 00015000 08:03 135264 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread-2.11.1.so b770c000-b770e000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b770e000-b771e000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 788570 /usr/lib/libhal.so.1.0.0 b771e000-b771f000 r--p 0000f000 08:03 788570 /usr/lib/libhal.so.1.0.0 b771f000-b7720000 rw-p 00010000 08:03 788570 /usr/lib/libhal.so.1.0.0 b7720000-b7721000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b7721000-b7758000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 130878 /lib/libdbus-1.so.3.4.0 b7758000-b7759000 r--p 00036000 08:03 130878 /lib/libdbus-1.so.3.4.0 b7759000-b775a000 rw-p 00037000 08:03 130878 /lib/libdbus-1.so.3.4.0 b775a000-b7822000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 130904 /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2400.0 b7822000-b7823000 r--p 000c7000 08:03 130904 /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2400.0 b7823000-b7824000 rw-p 000c8000 08:03 130904 /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2400.0 b7834000-b7836000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b7836000-b7837000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] b7837000-b7852000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 130842 /lib/ld-2.11.1.so b7852000-b7853000 r--p 0001a000 08:03 130842 /lib/ld-2.11.1.so b7853000-b7854000 rw-p 0001b000 08:03 130842 /lib/ld-2.11.1.so bfef1000-bff06000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] I dont know what to do