Ubuntu
gnome-panel package

  1. Bug #479826
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 479826

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O. Emmerson (oemmerson) wrote :

I posted too soon, the bug is still there.
I have more info though.

After editing the fstab file to include lines for external hard drive and mp3 player the bug reoccurred.

After some testing it seems to be the external hard drive line which causes the problem.
'UUID=65f23d3e-760c-4349-9bce-3bb952b14924 /media/freeagent1500 ext3 relatime,user,data=writeback'
If I add the line to fstab and save the file, gnome-panel immediate starts to consume massive amounts of CPU. If I comment it out and re-save the file it immediately stops.

This appears to be connected to the other bug I linked to above. In my research about that I discovered forum posts about entries in fstab causing an increase in CPU.