Comment 2 for bug 876671

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