Comment 5 for bug 412440

Karmic Alpha 6. I have had the notification area icon show up on 2 machines of three and on two separate disks on one of the machines. Two of those disks definitely showed S.M.A.R.T. problems though I've not yet checked the third. Apparently I missed the initial notification in all cases and multiple times. I cannot say the notification never appeared since it is transient, but I am suspicious. But that is not why I am adding to this report:

1) Clicking or right clicking on the notification area icon did nothing (which is wrong) in all cases but one,
2) In one case an installation seemed to be stalled (probably due to the bad disk) and after multiple attempts to [left & right] on the icon, a S.M.A.R.T. report appeared in a new window and the system was totally frozen. After 15 minutes I finally had to turn the power off and on to regain control of that machine. It was an IBM Think Centre model 8183-34U, 2.8 GHz P4, 1.5 GB memory and it was a 40GB WD drive. I was able to restart and got the install to complete but the drive is now scrapped so don't have specifics.

Larry Thiel