This isn't really blkid's fault. The problem is motherboards that have a floppy controller with no actual floppy attached to it -- each time you try and send a command to that, the entire controller hangs for some 30 seconds before it finally fails. This affects anything that tries to talk to it, not just blkid.
** Summary changed: - blkid is hanging, or at least taking a long time to process partition statistics + blkid is hanging on probing nonexistant floppy drive -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to util-linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1044111 Title: blkid is hanging on probing nonexistant floppy drive Status in util-linux package in Ubuntu: Confirmed 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) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/1044111/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
