I've seen this happen as well. mount(8) shows that the device it is trying to unmount is not mounted at the time.
Apr 18 01:05:01 perseus hald[2821]: forcibly attempting to lazy unmount /dev/sdb as enclosing drive was disconnected Apr 18 01:05:32 perseus last message repeated 863 times Apr 18 01:06:33 perseus last message repeated 1743 times Apr 18 01:07:34 perseus last message repeated 1676 times perseus:[~/iso] mount /dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro) tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755) proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755) varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777) udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620) fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw) lrm on /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/volatile type tmpfs (rw,mode=755) tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev) securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw) gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/mdz/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=mdz) ** Changed in: hal (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: hal (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged -- hald loads a core 100% attempting lazy unmount https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/366660 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs