Bug 802786

Summary: installation process is hanging on /sbin/blkid -c /dev/null if no floppy drive is installed
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 12.3 Reporter: Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb>
Component: InstallationAssignee: E-mail List <kernel-maintainers>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Major    
Priority: P5 - None CC: aschnell
Version: RC 1   
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Description Elmar Stellnberger 2013-02-08 11:25:22 UTC 
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 On a certain computer of mine (Frontman) the installation process always hangs for a long time on 'seeking for Linux partitions'. A pstree has revealed that /sbin/blkid -c /dev/null is executed at this time. The thing is that /sbin/blkid /dev/fd0 hangs while /sbin/blkid /dev/sda executes instantaneously. The same is for partprobe. This is due to a floppy controller being installed on the given computer but no actual floppy drive being present. Please change the blkid command execution to only affect /dev/sd* or at least not fd0 so that the installation process can process hang-free.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Arvin Schnell 2013-02-11 10:30:07 UTC 
Could be a duplicate of bug #773058.
Comment 2 Jeff Mahoney 2013-07-15 22:51:17 UTC 
Yep, it is.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 773058 ***