@Andrius/stikonas If you'd like this filed anywhere else, please just ask. (I usually verify reports on opensuse/fedora/debian before I file upstream; and that wasn't done, maybe hard to reproduce due lack of floppy support in many machines BIOS that is possibly essential to re-create issue)
Today's re-test on box documented here had a delay only on starting (less than a minute) before it responded and was usable. This test is using groovy/20.10 (not focal/20.04.1/2 daily) ** system in operation Lubuntu groovy daily (live) 2020-10-18 on - dell [optiplex] 745 (c2d-6600, 6gb, amd/ati radeon rv516/x1300/x1550) apt-cache policy partitionmanager shows partitionmanager: Installed: 4.1.0-1 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy/universe amd64 Full KPMCORE_DEBUG=1 output can be seen at https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/QRnXcSBNsS/ It did not STOP & fail to continue today.. it just sat there for some time (less than a minute I believe but noticeable) with the last messages on terminal during 'pause' being -- "Scanning devices..." "Command: lsblk --nodeps --paths --sort name --json --output type,name" "Command: blockdev --getsize64 /dev/fd0" -- The message box that opened during this time read "Scanning device '/dev/fd0'" -- Scanning `dmesg` I see -- [ 853.260553] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class 0 [ 853.260560] floppy: error 10 while reading block 0 -- Closing and re-starting (after delay) partitionmanager caused the following to appear in `dmesg -- [ 2476.713193] perf: interrupt took too long (2502 > 2500), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 79750 [ 2529.179311] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class 0 [ 2529.179318] floppy: error 10 while reading block 0 -- (ie. same result except for 'perf:' line that maybe unrelated) On fourth run of `KPMCORE_DEBUG=1 partitionmanager` the following is a paste from `journalctl` -- Oct 19 05:32:09 lubuntu dbus-daemon[1002]: [system] Activating service name='org.kde.kpmcore.externalcommand' requested by '> Oct 19 05:32:09 lubuntu dbus-daemon[1002]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.kde.kpmcore.externalcommand' Oct 19 05:32:14 lubuntu sudo[2688]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root Oct 19 05:32:47 lubuntu kernel: blk_update_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio cla> Oct 19 05:32:47 lubuntu kernel: floppy: error 10 while reading block 0 -- -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to partitionmanager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1890236 Title: kde partition manager is waiting it appears for /dev/fd0 (no floppy drive) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partitionmanager/+bug/1890236/+subscriptions -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs