Comment 14 for bug 1029149

The root of the problem is the misconfigured BIOS. Having said this, it appears that earlier versions of Lubuntu did not suffer from this problem. This suggests a change in some of the underlying utilities and libraries.

Would you be able to reproduce the problem in Lubunut 12.10, and then while GParted is endlessly scanning capture the output of all the processes running with the following command?

ps -ef > ps-output.txt

Please post the contents of the ps-output.txt file here so that we can investigate to see what command or utility might be taking a long time to run.