Ubuntu
udisks package

  1. Bug #539515
  2. Comment #99

Comment 99 for bug 539515

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Uwe Geuder (ubuntulp-ugeuder) wrote : Re: Attempts to mount floppy despite no media present - disable automount

> You can do "sudo killall udisks-daemon"
> and log out, and check if the next login then behaves like the initial
> one.

Yes, your assumption is correct. At the next login nautilus runs the the mount command, which takes 18 minutes to complete.

> Likewise, it's interesting to check whether a mere
>
> sudo killall udisks-daemon
> udisks --dump
>
> triggers floppy access.

Yes, it triggers floppy access. But it takes "only" 25 seconds until it fails. Only one I/O error is written to syslog. No mount process is spawned. The next attempt succeeds immediately.

geuder@geuder-t40-u:~$ time udisks --dump

(udisks:2373): udisks-WARNING **: Couldn't enumerate devices: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

real 0m25.038s
user 0m0.012s
sys 0m0.000s
geuder@geuder-t40-u:~$ time udisks --dump
========================================================================
Showing information for /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/fd0
... output deleted ...
========================================================================

real 0m0.308s
user 0m0.104s
sys 0m0.012s