for what its worth, subjectively, the timeout on udisk mounting a non existent floppy seems in the same sort of area as the delay i'm getting in nautilus startup
$ udisks --mount /dev/fd0 Mount failed: 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. -- slow transition from gdm to gnome desktop in ubuntu lucid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/551712 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