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 Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1044111 Title: blkid is hanging on probing nonexistant floppy drive To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/1044111/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
