[Bug 910379] Re: Gparted does not start and continues to scan devices

[Phillip Susi]

On 1/5/2012 4:05 PM, Curtis Gedak wrote:
> Phillip, are you able to bring this problem with blkid searching non-
> existent floppy drive to the attention of the right people?

I don't think it is considered a bug by anyone.  If the bios claims you 
have a floppy, then the kernel thinks you have a floppy.  If you try to 
access the floppy, the the kernel tries it's hardest to access it, even 
though it keeps failing.

> In the past if I changed the label of a partition with GParted and then
> called blkid, I received the cached result which was the old label.
> That is why I used the "-c /dev/null" to force blkid to re-read the
> information.
>
> I have not tested to see if blkid still has this same behaviour.

Right, if you call it before udev has had a chance to run it to update 
the cache, that would happen.  If you are changing the label, why don't 
you just update your cached label directly instead of querying blkid again?

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Title:
  Gparted does not start and continues to scan devices

Status in “gparted” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  I have Precise Pangolin Alpha 1 with all updates installed.
  When launching Gparted it continues to scan for devices and never starts.
  I tried as normal user, as root, with and without a usb key attached.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: gparted 0.8.1-1ubuntu4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-7.13-generic 3.2.0-rc7
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-7-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat Dec 31 16:18:08 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/gpartedbin
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
  SourcePackage: gparted
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2011-12-02 (28 days ago)
  XsessionErrors:
   (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2143): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
   (nautilus:2148): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_free: assertion `value != NULL' failed
   (gnome-panel:2275): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :1.0

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