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

[Curtis Gedak]

Warren,

It does appear that the blkid command without any parameter is hung, and
that blkid was invoked from gparted.

When you run GParted, has Ubuntu been running for a while, or did you
immediately start up GParted as soon as Ubuntu booted?

The reason I ask is I have a hypothesis that internally blkid has to run
at least once to build a cache of device information.  If the cache has
not yet been built, then calls blkid (without the -c /dev/null to bypass
the cache) will have to wait until the cache of device information has
been built.

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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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