This process eats a lot of my battery and now i cant leave my n800 on as my battery will be dead overnight

i tried killing it in the process but it will reappeared straight after that..

tried renaming the file..but it say i cant rename it..

never had this problem b4 until recently..can someone help?

i wonder if reflashing will work..?

i think you need to enter this mv /etc/rc2.d/S99metalayer-crawler0 /etc/rc2.d/D99metalayer-crawler0
login to xterm as root

correct method:

as root in xterm:
removes the startup links of the crawler.
Problem solved

thanks..when i typed that in xterm i got sh: update-rc.d:not found?

what did u mean by as root in xterm?

it has to be run as root.

do u mind teaching me how to run as root?
im new to linux..thanks

sudo gainroot and not to sound pithy but use the google powersearch you find out your answer thanks emjayes thats actually faster than the other method alsoi noticed but didnt try to disable it in gconf editor

Perhaps trying to identify /why/ it's going wrong for a non-poweruser who's obviously never done anything with symlinks would be useful? Telling juggie to turn it off without explaining the side effects of that (no media will show up in the Library tab of Media Player, you'll have to use File Manager or another media player such as Canola or MediaBox to play stuff) is also not *very* helpful.

One thing which caused metalayer-crawler problems in the past (IIRC) was card corruption. Perhaps, juggie, try plugging your device into a computer and running a "check drive for errors" on the cards?

I had an issue with the Metalayer crawler. I was adamant that is was entirely the crawler's fault. I killed it and got good battery life again. Then Eero from Nokia asserted it was not the crawler causing my issues and asked me to re-enable it and to do some tests. I did, and to my amazement, the battery life was okay. The reason for the bad battery life turned out to be a corrupt MMC card that I had since ditched when it stopped reading properly. So, try replacing your memory cards. It might help.

I disabled MLC a while back and want to be able to run it when *I* choose... however, running the binary as per the init.d script tells me it segfaults.
I manually removed MLCs datafiles and it still dies.
any clue?