Ubuntu
noflushd package

noflushd incompatible with gnome desktop

Bug #63566 reported by Dave Roberts
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noflushd (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome

Not sure if this is a bug exactly or an incompatibility
with gnome.

I use Ubuntu 6.06 with gnome desktop. For a couple of years I have used
noflushd for disc spin down and I have found that it is
the only application which is effective in controlling
hard discs properly. About 2 or 3 weeks ago, after an upgrade which included an upgrade kernel image and required a reboot, the
gnome desktop was removed and KDE became the default desktop.
Using apt-get I reinstalled gnome desktop and this
removed the noflushd application in the process. I
tried to selectively remove the gnome power management
applications but to remove any of the elements also
attempted to remove the whole of the gnome desktop
environment. So, I want to use gnome with noflushd but
my only choice is to use kde with noflushd or gnome
with built in power management (which does not control
the disc spindown properly). I have asked gnome and noflushd the same
question.

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Ken Geis (kgeis) wrote :

This also effects 7.04.

I am running the Gnome desktop, and I went to install noflushd. To install it, I would need to remove

  acpi-support
  gnome-power-manager
  gnome-session
  laptop-mode-tools
  powermanagement-interface
  ubuntu-desktop

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daponz (daponz) wrote :

Same effect on 8.04

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

Thanks for your report.

In fact noflushd conflicts with laptop-mode-tools which does the same thing ( hard drive spin down ) and is installed by default. In Hardy, the dependencies have been relaxed a bit and you can install noflushd without uninstalling the whole gnome desktop (but only power management features :( )

However, the changes you are requesting aren't really a bug and require more discussion, which should be done on an appropriate mailing list or forum. http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists might be a good start for determining which mailing list to use.

Changed in noflushd:
status: New → Invalid
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