[Bug 1029149] Re: gparted automatically starts scanning all devices slowly and never completing the task

[Phillip Susi]

Ok, after looking at the change log to refresh my memory, gparted used
to run blkid -c /dev/null, and this would hang when a floppy was
misconfigured, so we changed it to just run blkid by itself.

So warren already said that blkid with no arguments does not hang, which
is what we expect.  Can you run ps aux | grep blkid while gparted is
hung?

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Title:
  gparted automatically starts scanning all devices slowly and never
  completing the task

Status in “gparted” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  1) Ubuntu 12.10 Alpha3 i386 (Live USB stick)
  2) gparted 0.12.1-1
  3) I expected to open gparted completing the system scan in a matter of seconds.
  4) When opened gparted the scanning all devices is never completed. The scanning all devices is extremely slow. It takes approximatetly 8 seconds for the orange indicator to move from left to right or right to left.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: gparted 0.12.1-1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-6.6-generic 3.5.0
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-6-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.4-0ubuntu5
  Architecture: i386
  CasperVersion: 1.320
  Date: Wed Jul 25 21:18:33 2012
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha i386 (20120724.2)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gparted
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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