I tested it on a vanilla install of 8.04, then enabled hardy-proposed, updated, and the fix worked okay.
** Attachment added: "unnamed" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15172981/unnamed -- [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204770 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