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2008-02-29
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just disabled it with the command benson gave and ive noticed signifigant improvement already , especially in startup time. i checked to see if it was running using my statusbar cpu applet Thanks!!!
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2008-02-29
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Originally Posted by TA-t3
Perhaps I'm wrong; I thought debian would refuse (without special instructions) to overwrite files during an upgrade that have been changed from the original package? I'm no debian expert, so perhaps I was off-base there.
Even though I can agree with the sysv init aspect, there's nothing in the two different ways of disabling the crawler that is in any way better or worse for the package, certainly nothing that'll cause trouble with the debian packaging system. It'll be a hack any which way it's done, and there are other ways too. The way I would prefer is really to dpkg --purge the whole package, as to me it's mostly junk. Didn't try that though, so I don't know if something else is set to depend on it.
My way is not a hack; that's how you are supposed to enable/disable services in a given runlevel on a sysv setup.
I agree that if you have no intention of running it, the best recourse is to uninstall it; but I'm leaving the built-in media player on for playing the odd video clip from the internet. I just don't need it building a database, because I don't play my audio with it.
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2008-03-01
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so which is the best and easiest method? I dont wanna **** something up ive never messed with editing stuff like this. I still want the medi player to find new files if i add them will this effect that?
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2008-03-01
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@ Madison, WI
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Originally Posted by SPCartmanland
This happened to me an hour ago. It might be because I removed the external memory card and put it back in while the N800 was running. A restart cured it.
what is this program for exactly? ive had my n800 for about 2 weeks now and never had a problem until today its using 100% all the time
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2008-03-03
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Benson,
There's no problem upgrading a package if you have changed the name of a file, it's as if you have removed it - it'll in any case simply write a new version of the original file (in other words, re-installing the upgraded application, and leaving your original renamed file in place). Exactly the same will happen when you rename (move) the rc.d script though, so the two ways of disabling the crawler are equally "bad" seen from the point of DPKG.
pixelseventy2:
So far I'm not aware of any side effects of disabling the crawler, but then again I don't keep media player running. Whenever I want to watch or listen to something I start it via the file manager, which is how I would always use a media player - and as the Nokia-provided one doesn't have a built-in file manager, I simply use the normal one.
There's no problem upgrading a package if you have changed the name of a file, it's as if you have removed it - it'll in any case simply write a new version of the original file (in other words, re-installing the upgraded application, and leaving your original renamed file in place). Exactly the same will happen when you rename (move) the rc.d script though, so the two ways of disabling the crawler are equally "bad" seen from the point of DPKG.
pixelseventy2:
So far I'm not aware of any side effects of disabling the crawler, but then again I don't keep media player running. Whenever I want to watch or listen to something I start it via the file manager, which is how I would always use a media player - and as the Nokia-provided one doesn't have a built-in file manager, I simply use the normal one.
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N800/OS2007|N900/Maemo5
-- Metalayer-crawler delenda est.
-- Current state: Fed up with everything MeeGo.
N800/OS2007|N900/Maemo5
-- Metalayer-crawler delenda est.
-- Current state: Fed up with everything MeeGo.
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2008-03-03
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Does this bug plague IT's running OS2008?
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Scraping money together to get a n810 and/or n800.
Scraping money together to get a n810 and/or n800.
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2008-03-03
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I haven't seen it in 2008. I had this issue under 2007.
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2008-03-03
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I actually noticed it hit... 116% yesterday on OS2008. I didn't think to screencap it.
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2008-03-03
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An occasional burst of Meta activity is normal I believe, but what I think this person is seeing and what i saw was that Meta would kick in, usually at boot time and simply go on and on and on eventually killing the battery. I had to remove Canola because eventually I tracked it down to that program. I'm not blaming Canola but as soon as I removed it I had no more problems. I have it on 2008 OS now though. ;-)
Every now and then I see it come up briefly ( min or two). I can deal with that though.
Every now and then I see it come up briefly ( min or two). I can deal with that though.
Comment #0 describes a way to prevent the crawler from running wild across the filesystem and pegging your CPU. This has been working okay for me.