[Bug 910379] Re: Gparted does not start and continues to scan devices

[Carla Sella]

Hello Curtis,
This is the output while Gparted is running:

root at charlie02:/var/log# ps -ef | egrep -i "dosfsck|ntfsresize"
root      7889  7535  0 11:33 pts/0    00:00:00 egrep -i dosfsck|ntfsresize
root at charlie02:/var/log# 

On this PC I do not have NTFS or FAT filesystems:

root at charlie02:/home/charlie/Desktop# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 400.1 GB, 400088457216 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders, total 781422768 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf6bf21de

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *          63   112454999    56227468+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2       118752480   760942591   321095056   83  Linux
/dev/sda3       112455000   118752479     3148740   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4       760944638   781420543    10237953    5  Extended
/dev/sda5       760944640   781420543    10237952   83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order
root at charlie02:/home/charlie/Desktop#

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Title:
  Gparted does not start and continues to scan devices

Status in “gparted” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I have Precise Pangolin Alpha 1 with all updates installed.
  When launching Gparted it continues to scan for devices and never starts.
  I tried as normal user, as root, with and without a usb key attached.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: gparted 0.8.1-1ubuntu4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-7.13-generic 3.2.0-rc7
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-7-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat Dec 31 16:18:08 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/gpartedbin
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
  SourcePackage: gparted
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2011-12-02 (28 days ago)
  XsessionErrors:
   (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2143): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
   (nautilus:2148): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_free: assertion `value != NULL' failed
   (gnome-panel:2275): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :1.0

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