@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. -- 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: 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) 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
