Sebastien kindly did some more debugging, keeping notes here. This seems to be related to media polling (we verified both in-kernel and udisks based polling trigger this, and cause the same uevents).
Correlating udev events and the corresponding udev debug output, we get: UDEV [26112.066235] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.4/2-1.4:1.0/host29/target29:0:0/29: 0:0:0/block/sdb/sdb1 (block) -- **** REMOVING /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.4/2-1.4:1.0/host29/target29:0:0/29:0:0:0/block/ sdb/sdb1 **** EMITTING REMOVED for /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.4/2-1.4:1.0/host29/target29:0:0/29: 0:0:0/block/sdb/sdb1 UDEV [26112.067123] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.4/2-1.4:1.0/host29/target29:0:0/29:0:0:0/block/sdb (block) -- **** REMOVING /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.4/2-1.4:1.0/host29/target29:0:0/29:0:0:0/block/ sdb **** EMITTING REMOVED for /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.4/2-1.4:1.0/host29/target29:0:0/29: 0:0:0/block/sdb **** scsi_host IGNORING REMOVE /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.4/2-1.4:1.0/host29/scsi_host/h ost29 Now we get a rather weird change uevent with a hilariously broken device path and device name, at a time when sdb is already gone! UDEV [26112.087644] change /sdb (block) ACTION=change DEVNAME=/dev/sdb DEVPATH=/sdb DEVTYPE=disk DISK_MEDIA_CHANGE=1 SUBSYSTEM=block -- **** TREATING CHANGE AS ADD /sys/sdb **** ADDING /sys/sdb **** UPDATING /sys/sdb **** ADDED /sys/sdb **** EMITTING ADDED for /sys/sdb Now we get a similar change event again, but this time WITHOUT DISK_MEDIA_CHANGE UDEV [26112.102230] change /sdb (block) ACTION=change DEVNAME=/dev/sdb DEVPATH=/sdb DEVTYPE=disk SUBSYSTEM=block -- **** CHANGING /sys/sdb **** UPDATING /sys/sdb **** EMITTING CHANGED for /sys/sdb **** CHANGED /sys/sdb Now we get the device back: UDEV [26123.419938] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.4/2-1.4:1.0/host32/target32:0:0/32:0:0:0/block/sdb (block) -- **** ADDING /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.4/2-1.4:1.0/host32/target32:0:0/32:0:0:0/block/sdb **** UPDATING /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.4/2-1.4:1.0/host32/target32:0:0/32:0:0:0/block/sdb (udisks-daemon:24900): udisks-daemon-ERROR **: **** HACK: Wanting to register object at path `/org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sdb' but there is already an object there. This is an internal error in the daemon. Aborting. So I think the problem is that the media polling for the /sdb device creates a device in udisks. ** Changed in: udisks (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => In Progress -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/899757 Title: udisks-daemon assertion error: HACK: Wanting to register object at path `%s' but there is already an object there. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks/+bug/899757/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs