Arch Linux

Be sure you don't have a floppydrive enabled in BIOS if you don't have one. GVFS/udisks will wait for a long time trying to query your ghost floppydrive leading to timeouts and slowdowns.

thank's for help, but it's a modern pc :)
there isn't a floppydrive unit, and there aren't relative options in bios

What's your partition layout? Any use of LVM/md-raid/cryptfs?

@JGC: No I don't use lvm, raid or cryptfs

[~] mount
/dev/sda5 on / type ext4 (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=10240k,mode=755)
none on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
none on /tmp type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/sda8 on /media/banca_dati type ext4 (rw)
/dev/sda7 on /home type ext4 (rw)
cache-chromium on /home/marinz/.cache/chromium type tmpfs (rw,noatime,mode=1777)
rpc_pipefs on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/marinz/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=marinz)
[~]

[~] sudo fdisk -l

Disco /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 byte

255 testine, 63 settori/tracce, 38913 cilindri
Unità = cilindri di 16065 * 512 = 8225280 byte
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Identificativo disco: 0x5a246469

Dispositivo Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 38913 312568641 5 Esteso
/dev/sda5 1 1530 12289662 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 1531 1581 409626 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 1582 2218 5116671 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 2219 38913 294752556 83 Linux
[~]

Same problem here (on i686 architecture).
Only workaround I've found is to change policy owner in /etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.UDisks.conf. This will prevent gnome freeze after login (with udisks/dbus eating 100% CPU), though segfaults occur with gdu-notification-daemon and gnome volume manager is still unusable.

@Angelo that is pretty wrong. you have two possibility to do it right

1) using gdm or kdm login manager
2) using 'exec ck-launch-session gnome-session' in ~/.xinitrc

@Ionut: I well know that, although this is the only temporarily fix that prevents the freeze from me (without rollback to gnome-disk-utility 2.28). Using login manager or change exec line in .xinitrc (either with 'exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session gnome-session') was one of the first attempts I've made, with no luck.

I can confirm that using gdm or ck-launh-session in .xinitrc doesn't solve the problem

On my netbook (arch 32 bit) I have no problem, system is up to date and it works, I don't understand!
What are the configuration files that I can copy from my netbook to my desktop (where I have this problem)?

Thanks

Well, I can confirm that temporary solution by Angelo (changing policy owner) allow to start gnome. Any other attempt fails. My system is fresh installed Archlinux x86_64 on stationary computer.

Ok it works for me too, now gnome starts normally, but automount still doesn't work :(

I think I've find out a more proper fix :)
Before starting X, just make sure to override your local LANG variable, from a terminal prompt:

export LANG=C

Now, starting GNOME works fine, automount works flawlessy, except all menus are in English language.
This is probably due to the fact that, since I'm an italian AL user, my LANG variable is "it_IT@euro" (or equivalent).

If I recall correctly, this problem also came out with an earlier version of this package.

Can you try it_IT.UTF8 instead of it_IT@euro?

@JGC: works fine, now only some parts of GNOME (Nautilus, "Places" menu and others GNOME apps) speak English :)

Ok, latest problem (mixed-up GNOME language translation) was fixed by enabling "it_IT.utf8" in /etc/locale-gen and then executing "locale-gen" command.
This definetly fix the whole problem for me.

and it works!!!!! :D

@Angelo: ti farei un monumento guarda :D Che soddisfazione vedere gnome funzionare al 100% finalmente :D

As Angelo said, I've only enabled in locale.gen "it_IT.utf8" and comment others, and now gnome is rock :D

can one of you test this patch ?

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=616198

if is working, submit a comment there. if not, submit a new bug report explaining what is happening

Just tested the patch right now, and it works.
Now things are fine also with the LANG variable = "it_IT@euro".
:)

ok, nice to see that is working, but i asked you to report in there that :P. they need feedback and if nobody does that, it would stay broken

Mine fault ;) I've missed the 'T' in "there".
Now I'll report *t*here :P

It works for me too (changed in /etc/rc.conf LOCALE from pl_PL to pl_PL.UTF-8).
I have also patched gnome-disk-utility and it works with locale pl_PL now.

Thank you very much!!!

is this fixed in the gnome-disk-utility 2.32?

Looks like upstream did nothing at all with the patch, so if we didn't include it, it's still not fixed (hint: include it ;)).