[Bug 1205199] Re: blkid and gparted are extremely slow in a persistent live session

[Curtis Gedak]

GParted uses blkid to acquire information about partitions so it is not
surprising that GParted is also impacted by this blkid behaviour.

This problem can happen in GParted if the BIOS indicates that a floppy
drive is present, but no physical floppy device is installed.

A work-around to this problem is to disable the floppy drive in the
BIOS.

See http://gparted.org/faq.php#faq-11

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Title:
  blkid and gparted are extremely slow in a persistent live session

Status in “gparted” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “util-linux” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  sudo blkid is extremely slow in a persistent live session (9 min 20 seconds)
  but finally it finds loop mounted devices and zRAM devices
  sudo blkid /dev/sd* is responsive as usual, also
  sudo blkid  /dev/[hslz]* but not
  sudo blkid  /dev/f*

  Is the problem that it spends this time searching for a non-existing
  floppy drive?

  This is not a problem in previous Ubuntu systems, for example the main
  installed system Ubuntu 12.04.2 precise

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
  Package: util-linux 2.20.1-5.1ubuntu9
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.10.0-5.14-generic 3.10.2
  Uname: Linux 3.10.0-5-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.11-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: i386
  CasperVersion: 1.335
  Date: Fri Jul 26 07:27:38 2013
  LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Alpha i386 (20130723.1)
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: util-linux
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  modified.conffile..etc.init.hwclock.save.conf: [deleted]

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