[Bug 1044111] Re: blkid is hanging on probing nonexistant floppy drive

[Martin Pitt]

@Simon: I'm going to give you a brutally honest answer, as that's going
to be more helpful than just silence: Most Linux developers haven't had
systems with floppy drives for many many years (me included), and it's
actually not that easy these days to find a computer with a floppy these
days, at least in the western world. Also, I myself fixed a couple of
floppy bugs several years ago, but these are a real ratsnest -- there is
just no d**** way to get it right -- you fall into the "hangs the entire
system" trap whatever you try and do. The only (local) workaround would
be to completely disable probing and support for floppies, but if we do
that we get another set of angry users like in bug 1064195.

In essence: it's an enormous task to get floppies work decently, for a
miniscule benefit, and there's zero interest.

I know that this isn't satisfying to you, but this is how free software
works. If someone really cares about this, one needs to pay some
developers/contractors to work on this.

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Title:
  blkid is hanging on probing nonexistant floppy drive

Status in util-linux package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  1. Lubuntu 12.10 i386 3.5.0-11-generic
  2. util-linux 2.20.1-5.1ubuntu1
  3. I expected sudo blkid to display partition stats. This bug is reference to bug #1029149 gparted never completing scanning all devices.
  4. I do not get the desired output from gparted or sudo blkid.

  The attached screenshot show the lack of results when using the sudo
  blkid command.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: util-linux 2.20.1-5.1ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-11.11-generic 3.5.2
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-11-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.5.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Thu Aug 30 18:33:46 2012
  InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha i386 (20120826)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: util-linux
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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