Comment 2 for bug 164138

Sorry for not answering up to now, but i'm not sure if your problem is given by pysdm. Anyways some more information is needed.

You should also know that pysdm can give problems with the latest relases of ubuntu desktop, as some changes has been done in device configuration (automount in desktop,...) and in fstab files format (UID allowed as file system name in /etc/fstab - it has been patched in CVS #79179 -).

Please make sure your filesystem is sane (fsck) and is being mounted with the options and permissions that you want (mount | grep PARTITION NAME).

Try also to see if the programs that freeze up give some descriptive information running them from a terminal.

And paste here the information that can be useful to diagnostize the problem (/etc/fstab and mount lines about your partition at least).