[Bug 617885] Re: gparted crash at start: glibmm-ERROR **

[Stephan]

Had the same bug, and this thread helped point me in the right
direction.  I'm not sure if my response is appropriate, as I'm sure more
than a handful of less technical users will find this thread (it's the
first few hits for 'gparted crash' search results.) If not, I apologize
in advance.  I solved the issue by using git to pull the current version
of gparted, and building it.  From a stock Maverick desktop 64 bit,
system, I ran (as root):

# aptitude install git gnome-common libglib2.0.dev uuid-dev libparted-
dev libgtkmm-2.4-dev

Then changed to the /tmp directory, ran

# git clone git://git.gnome.org/gparted

# make

# make install

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gparted crash at start: glibmm-ERROR **
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Bug description:
Binary package hint: gparted

Always that I try to open gparted from console:

$ sudo gparted
======================
libparted : 2.2
======================

glibmm-ERROR **: 
unhandled exception (type std::exception) in signal handler:
what: basic_string::_S_create

aborting...

$ lsb_release -rd
Description:	Ubuntu maverick (development branch)
Release:	10.10

$ apt-cache policy gparted
gparted:
  Instalado: 0.5.2-2ubuntu3
  Candidato: 0.5.2-2ubuntu3
  Táboa de versións:
 *** 0.5.2-2ubuntu3 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ uname -a
Linux lito-ubuntu 2.6.35-14-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 6 21:49:44 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux