gvfs-gdu-volume-monitor uses 100% CPU on startup

[Ingo Ruhnke]

Every time the system is booted up gvfs-gdu-volume-monitor uses 100% of the CPU for multiple minutes, even so there is no good reason why it should do that. This bug report indicates that it might be related to the number of USB devices attached:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=575381

And I can confirm that, I have multiple USB HDDs with a dozens of LVM partitions.

[Ingo Ruhnke (grumbel)]

This problem happens both in 11.10 and 11.04, it hasn't happened before, but not sure if this was because the bug didn't exist back then or because I had less HDD back then.

[DavidW (9-launchpad-ddwilliams-net)]

The same happens to me - everything fine until I plug an external HD into the laptop - and then the following start to eat CPU cycles:

gvfs-gdu-volume-monitor
gdu-notification-daemon

If I stop these (it was an act of desperation) then update-notifier starts to eat CPU cycles

I am using 11.10
On the machine before clean install of 11.10 - from 10.?? - no problems

I also have 11.10 on the USB HD - and when I use this to boot a Lenovo laptop or an HP laptop - again the CPU use rises to close to 100% - with the same processes misbehaving

If I plug the same HDD into my 10.04 system then - no problems

I am happy to do more digging for information - but it seems few other folks are suffering this problem

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[DavidW (9-launchpad-ddwilliams-net)]

Update

If I boot my computer with a 10.04 Live CD - no trouble
If I boot my computer with a 10.10 Live CD - no trouble
If I boot my computer with a 11.04 Live CD - oops

The USB HDD is a Freecom Toughdrive - with hardware encryption - not enabled
In Windows the drive appears as a CD drive (with a virtual CD in it) plus an NTFS drive
The HDD drive is formatted by me into an EXT4 Primary and a then an extended and then a logical NTFS in the extended
Drive mounts fine in UBUNTU - both partitions.
Drive is bootable to Ubuntu

I will bring another USB HDD home from work tomorrow and see if I can replicate the behaviour