Comment 13 for bug 518582

Kudos to the original reporter and inventor of the ingenious solution. I was bit by this bug on a regular laptop and dumbfounded as my Lucid system's "blkid" saw the file system, while the Karmic system didn't.

It would be a very good idea indeed to backport this patch to karmic's util-linux, as it takes some determination to find the source of the weird behavior caused by it (in my case just a blank screen on Karmic's bootup).