Comment 1 for bug 248649

This happens due to line 38 in /etc/init.d/hal: That is where the offending rm is located.

I changed the line to start with 'test -w "/u/s/h/f/p/gparted-disable-automount.fdi" && ' and that seems to work well enough...

The actual rm is there as a aworkaround to LP #134712 (or so it seems), so only removing the file if it exists and is actually writeable is OK... in a ro /usr gparted should never have created the file in the first place anyway.