I've just experienced the same problem. hald is now using 100% of one of the two cores on my system, with messages like this in kern.log:
Sep 30 12:04:14 Nitpickinghp2 kernel: [ 754.548991] invalid access to FAT (entry 0x15769559) Sep 30 12:04:14 Nitpickinghp2 kernel: [ 754.555320] FAT: Filesystem panic (dev sda6) Sep 30 12:04:14 Nitpickinghp2 kernel: [ 754.555325] invalid access to FAT (entry 0x6a5bcce7) Sep 30 12:04:14 Nitpickinghp2 kernel: [ 754.560175] FAT: Filesystem panic (dev sda6) Sep 30 12:04:14 Nitpickinghp2 kernel: [ 754.560178] invalid access to FAT (entry 0xe2fa0c1a) Sep 30 12:04:14 Nitpickinghp2 kernel: [ 754.597459] FAT: Filesystem panic (dev sda6) Sep 30 12:04:14 Nitpickinghp2 kernel: [ 754.597464] invalid access to FAT (entry 0xe6ae82d5) Sep 30 12:04:14 Nitpickinghp2 kernel: [ 754.631716] FAT: Filesystem panic (dev sda6) There are literally thousands of lines like this. I can't fully unmount or remount or check sda6, looks like I'll have to reboot. -- hald loads a core 100% attempting lazy unmount https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/366660 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs