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gparted package

gparted doesn't read partition table

Bug #153360 reported by mezzmerized17
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gparted (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Gateway MX8530

During install, partition table is blank. Fdisk correctly reads the partition table.
Gparted reads nothing.

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x8f8001b1

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 2611 20972826 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 5223 7719 20057152+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 2612 9729 57175335 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 2612 5222 20972825+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 9599 9729 1052257+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 9468 9598 1052226 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda8 7834 9467 13125042 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda9 7720 7833 915642 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Again, gparted reads nothing.

See original description
Saivann Carignan (oxmosys)
description: updated
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Saivann Carignan (oxmosys) wrote :

Thanks for your bug report. I've removed the "crash" part of the description of your bug report because this part was about another bug which is now fixed. However, the rest of your bug report is clearly not a duplicate.

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xteejx (xteejx-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

Changed in gparted (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Curtis Gedak (gedakc) wrote :

GParted uses a library from the parted project (libparted) to manipulate partitions. If parted discovers a problem with the partition table, then GParted will similarly be unable to edit the partition table.

Unfortunately, GParted versions up to and including 0.5.0 do not display the problem in the GUI. The error is displayed in a terminal session if GParted is started from the command line.

You can also discover the error by running parted directly on the device:
For example:
     parted /path-to-your-disk-device unit s print
Where /path-to-your-disk-device is something like /dev/sda

This problem has been tracked under the following upstream bug report:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337244

The fix for this problem will be included in the next upstream release of GParted.

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xteejx (xteejx-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

In that case, this is being marked Fix Released, since Lucid now has version 0.5.1-1ubuntu2. Thank you.

Changed in gparted (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
importance: Undecided → Medium
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