[Bug 406154] [NEW] plasma panel freezes for a few seconds when opening a usb drrive

[Jithin Emmanuel]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: plasma-widgets-workspace

I have a 320 GB USB drive which has about 200 GB data.
When I mount my drive, either clicking on Device Notifier applet or by dolphin Places, plasma panel freezes for a few seconds, ie until the drive is opened in dolphin it freezes the panel and everything goes back to normal once dolphin opens the drive.

Its the same if I mount manually using mount command. Plasma freezes for a few seconds, during which
1. system tray works.
2. no other applets in plasma works - eg, desktop switcher, task manager, notifiactions
3. alt-tab switching of applications work.

I believe its not related to device notifier.
I removed Device Notifier. Mounted from konsole. After 2 seconds it freezes the plasma panel. I dont even have any dolphin or anything running. But the device is properly mounted. I opened a movie in the drive with mplayer when the plasma panel was in a frozen state.

So my guess some process related to plasma is reading something from the
device which freezes it.

** Affects: kdebase-workspace (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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plasma panel freezes for a few seconds when opening a usb drrive
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