I had this same problem yesterday after upgrading to 7.10. Then after reading this post I noticed that mine too was hanging for at least 10 minutes while checking /dev/fd0. As I new GParted on 7.04 used to start swiftly on my system, I immediately assumed a bug in GParted. (It was also slow using the 7.0 live cd)
I don't have a floppy drive, but then I remembered I did add one temporarily a little while ago and removed it again. It turned out after disconnecting it, I had forgotten to disable it in the bios. Setting floppy in the bios to none fixed it. Dan -- gparted hangs "Scanning all Devices" for ever https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/155047 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs