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

Phillip Susi psusi at cfl.rr.com
Wed Jan 4 14:26:07 UTC 2012


It looks like it is trying to scan your floppy drive, and I assume you
do not actually have one.  You need to configure your bios to not think
you have a floppy drive if you don't actually have one.

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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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