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

2015-06-03 Thread 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

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

2015-06-03 Thread Simon Reed
Is there no better solution than to say Change your BIOS settings? There is nothing to put the idea in the user's mind that that may be the problem, especially these days when many users have never seen a floppy disk in their lives. blkid will make gparted lock up for 20 minutes or more, other

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

2015-06-02 Thread Phillip Susi
Yes, if you do not have a floppy drive, then you need to tell your bios that you do not have one. As an alternative, you can blacklist the fd module to force the kernel not to use it. ** Changed in: util-linux (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Invalid -- You received this bug notification