[Bug 1159288] Re: GParted hang while Scanning all devices for 10 to 15 mn

[Antonio19]

OK. No need to strace. I did the same trick as john Buczek. My system is
working now. I did have a floppy appearing in fact on the left column of
Nautilus. The following Command Lines made it disappear instantly.

I went to unix.stackexchange.com to get a solution : "Linux, disable /dev/fd0 (floppy)"
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/53513/linux-disable-dev-fd0-floppy

Namely :

$ echo "blacklist floppy" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-floppy.conf
$ sudo rmmod floppy
$ sudo update-initramfs -u

The result is immediate, no need to reboot and lasting. May be I will
have to do it again at the next kernel update ?

The trouble came from the fact that although I have no floppy disk on my
hardware system, the ASUS BIOS is declaring it. Hence the trouble with
Linux. At least on Ubuntu the thing to do is to blacklist the module
associated with /dev/fd0

I have re-install VMware in addition to QEMU-KVM and everything is
working fine, gparted and the CL sudo blkid as well.

This is closing this bug.

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Title:
  GParted hang while Scanning all devices for 10 to 15 mn

Status in “gparted” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  sudo blkid command hangs as well and does not return anything in an
  acceptable time.

  when trying to launch gparted from the command line I get an error
  message.

  If I close the hanging window of gparted "Scanning all devices..."
  then when attempting a relaunch it crash at startup.

  I had this kind of behaviour before  for blkid and later on it
  reverted to a normal behaviour. Now again blkid is not working and
  gparted is for the first time not working as well. e.g. I have to wait
  for 10 to 15 mn to get it up and running.

  This erratic behaviour of blkid and gparted is unerving.

  I am running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

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