Comment 7 for bug 376053

I've experienced this bug in Jaunty and now in Karmic. I have 5 Western Digital external USB drives (quite a lot, I know). I did a clean install of Karmic, and after plugging in the drives I notice significant lags in these operations:

  - Starting up GNOME. I'm running on an SSD, so time to desktop normally is around 10 seconds from GRUB. With the drives plugged in, it takes an additional 10-15 seconds while each drive spins up.

  - Opening the "Places" menu. Nautilus insists on spinning up each drive when opening the Places menu.

  - Opening "Computer".

  - Occasionally in Save or Open dialogs.

This is not fixed in GNOME 2.26. Can someone else confirm and reopen this bug?

I'd be happy to provide any logs, just let me know which ones.

As the fellow who originally issued this report did:

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10

$ apt-cache policy nautilus
nautilus:
  Installed: 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:2.28.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages