Udev needs restart after dismounting truecrypt encrypted USB stick

Bug #786263 reported by Marcel Svitalsky
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Bug Description

I've just installed Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit desktop. Among other problems I've encountered this one: I have the USB stick encrypted with truecrypt (the whole partition). When I connect it, the devices /dev/sd? and /dev/sd?1 are created and mounting via truecrypt is OK, but when I disconnect the stick, one udev-deamon thread starts running using 100 % of CPU and eating more and more memory, up to almost 100 MB. And what's worse, if I reconnect the stick, devices in /dev/ are NOT created again and neither /proc/partitions gets updated. Syslog says nothing about it.

Workaround: The only working way to solve this that I've found so far is restarting udev.

Tags: amd64 natty
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papukaija (papukaija) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage . I have classified this bug as a bug in udev.

When reporting bugs in the future please use apport by using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs.

tags: added: amd64 natty
affects: ubuntu → udev (Ubuntu)
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Herbert Thielen (thielen) wrote :

Maybe this problem is related to Bug #780266?

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