util-linux-ng: cannot recreate/reformat thumb drive

[William Melgaard]

Package: language-pack-en-base
Version: 1:8.04+20080415
Severity: normal
File: util-linux-ng

Problem reformatting/recreating a thumb drive. I examined a functional (Kingston) drive in order to 
reformat my disfunctional drive. cfdisk reported on the functional drive: "FATAL ERROR: Bad primary 
partition 0: Partition begins after end-of-disk" 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers hardy-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'hardy-updates'), (500, 'hardy-security'), (500, 'hardy')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-17-generic (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages language-pack-en-base depends on:
ii  dpkg                    1.14.16.6ubuntu3 package maintenance system for Deb
ii  language-pack-en        1:8.04+20080415  translation updates for language E
ii  locales                 2.7.9-4          common files for locale support

Versions of packages language-pack-en-base recommends:
ii  language-support-en      1:8.04+20080218 metapackage for English language s

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