Comment 59 for bug 539515

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Ryan (lilbill39) wrote : Re: Attempts to mount floppy despite no media present - disable automount

Ditto for me on my machine, which does not have a floppy drive. I had the 'unrecoverable error' during initial installation and the hang-up from the login screen to when the GNOME panels loaded. Ubuntu automatically inserted an entry in /etc/fstab for my floppy:

#/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

and there were entries present in gvfs-mount -li for a floppy drive.

Upon commenting the entry in /etc/fstab and disabling the floppy in my BIOS, it was initially enabled though physically non-existent, the hang-up is gone and then entry in gvfs-mount -li is also gone.