Tracking a problem (Internet oddness)

This looks like a recursive issue and a file is locked, me thinks.

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acpi-support (0.109-0hardy2) hardy-proposed; urgency=low

  [ Jakob Unterwurzacher ]
  * Defensive quoting in 90-hdparm.sh, so that the script doesn't throw
    a syntax error when the battery state is undetermined.

  [ Steve Langasek ]
  * lib/power-funcs: refactor getState() to return 'AC' by default,
    since this is implicitly the case if we don't have a battery.

    LP: #59695.

 -- Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:06:55 +0000

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Preparing to replace acpi-support 0.109-0hardy1
(using .../acpi-support_0.109-0hardy2_amd64.deb)
* Disabling power management...    [ OK ]
Unpacking replacement acpi-support
Setting up acpi-support (0.109-0hardy2)
Installing new version of config file /etc/acpi/resume.d/90-hdparm.sh ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/acpi/start.d/90-hdparm.sh ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/acpi/ac.d/90-hdparm.sh ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/acpi/battery.d/90-hdparm.sh ...
* Checking battery state...
/dev/sdc:
setting Advanced Power Management level to 0xfe (254)

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  |   |-kdesu,11825 -u root -c /usr/bin/adept_updater\040
  |   |   `-adept_updater,11830,root
  |   |       `-dpkg,11936 --status-fd 61 --configure acpi-support
  |   |           `-acpi-support.po,11937 /var/lib/dpkg/info/acpi-support.postinst configure 0.109-0hardy1
  |   |               `-invoke-rc.d,12099 /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d acpi-support start
  |   |                   `-acpi-support,12115 /etc/init.d/acpi-support start
  |   |                       `-hdparm,12150 -i /dev/sde

I would blame quantum entanglement for this problem, but it seems that it may be intellectual entanglement and my mind is operating faster than my ability to understand.

  |   |-konsole,12176                                           
  |   |   `-bash,12177
  |   |       `-hdparm,12270,root -i /dev/sde

This is the file as it exists.

#! /bin/sh
#
# This script adjusts hard drive APM settings using hdparm. The hardware
# defaults (usually hdparm -B 128) cause excessive head load/unload cycles
# on many modern hard drives. We therefore set hdparm -B 254 while on AC
# power. On battery we set hdparm -B 128, because the head parking is
# very useful for shock protection.
#

. /usr/share/acpi-support/power-funcs

DO_HDPARM=y
if [ -e /usr/sbin/laptop_mode ] ; then
  LMT_CONTROL_HD_POWERMGMT=$(. /etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf && echo "$CONTROL_HD_POWERMGMT")
  if [ "$LMT_CONTROL_HD_POWERMGMT" != 0 ] \
     && [ -e /var/run/laptop-mode-tools/enabled ]
  then
    # Laptop mode controls hdparm -B settings, we don't.
    DO_HDPARM=n
  fi
fi

if [ "$DO_HDPARM" = y ] ; then
  # Get the power state into STATE
  getState;

  for dev in /dev/sd? /dev/hd? ; do
    if [ -b $dev ] ; then
      # Check for APM support; discard errors since not all drives
      # support HDIO_GET_IDENTITY (-i).
      if hdparm -i $dev 2> /dev/null | grep -q 'AdvancedPM=yes' ; then
        if [ "$STATE" = "BATTERY" ] ; then
          hdparm -B 128 $dev
        else
          hdparm -B 254 $dev
        fi
      fi
    fi
  done
fi
"/etc/acpi/battery.d/90-hdparm.sh" [readonly] 41L, 1157C      

I am not exactly sure where the problem arises, however this is the change and as such, I am not liking things that stop the ability to get to console as it requires I fiddle from another partition and that is icky. Below is the defensive quoting.

if [ "$DO_HDPARM" = y ] ; then
if [ $DO_HDPARM = y ] ; then

On top of that there is some weirdness going on with Firefox and it isn't minor. It appears to be a security hole and I don't even want to mess with that until I have resolved this. It results from a game that people play with image files and others may not be aware of it yet. I was trying to get a good example of it to test with. It is possible to make images un-copyable or worse , however the bandwidth is severely affected. I am really getting tired of the internet copyright wars and I may just go text mode and use a tunnel if it gets too bad.

I am reasonably sure there is some odd recursion going on and it is a matter of analytical skills is why I do it. It verifies that my CPU is running fine if I solve and understand problems. :)