Hard Disk Problems Detected warning is duplicated too many times without user interaction

[madbiologist]

I have a disk whose SMART status correctly reports as failing. This is reported in Ubuntu by the Disk Utility - see the attached screenshot. If I walk away from the computer for a while, when I return there are many of these message boxes stacked on top of each other. The Examine button is highlighted by default but there is no scenario where I need/want more than 1 or possibly 2 Examine Windows open concurrently or even sequentially, so I must repeatedly click OK with my mouse to dismiss all of these messages. It would be better if the first message box inhibited the display of further message boxes until it is dismissed.

Note: The issue that this an old-style message box rather than using the new notify-osd notifications is covered in bug #412440. Fixing that bug might fix this bug also, but in the meantime (or if that bug is closed as Wont-Fix) it would be beneficial to fix this bug.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gnome-disk-utility 3.0.2-2ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-18.29-generic 3.5.7
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-18-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.2
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun May 19 01:34:56 2013
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120817.3)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
 PATH=(custom, no username)
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)