On 07/16/2012 08:19 PM, Aurko Roy wrote:
I had a similar problem today when I tried to mount my portable hard drives. The mount process would consume 100% cpu and could not be killed. Further when I tried to give the shutdown/halt command the system would not shut down either. The next time I stopped dbus before attempting to mount again and it worked. However I don't think that this was causing the problem since the next time I could mount even when dbus was running and I can find no plausible explanation for why stopping dbus should help. Now it seems to be working fine - so basically it was a weird problem that just corrected itself after a couple of reboots.
A reboot was not enough unfortunately.. But I found the fix! I just had to remove sda from the filter in one of the udev rules, that now is: KERNEL!="sd[b-z][0-9]", GOTO="media_by_label_auto_mount_end" it's quite strange though because it never did it before, so I guess that one update changed its behaviour somehow..