Package: gparted
Version: 0.12.1-2+b1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,
I tried to start gparted up (with "sudo gparted"), but it hangs while 
displaying the message "Scanning all devices...".

I searched around, and found a workaround that worked for me: I unloaded the 
"floppy" kernel module with rmmod,
after which I tried to load gparted again, and it worked.

$ sudo gparted /dev/sdd
======================
libparted : 2.3
======================
^C
$ sudo rmmod floppy
$ sudo gparted /dev/sdd


I don't actually have a floppy drive. The error might be caused by a line in my 
/etc/fstab which was automatically added by the Wheezy installation process:
"/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0"
This might be an error with automatic device detection (in the kernel?), I 
don't know.

I found the workaround here: 
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/gparted-just-hangs-and-i-dont-know-why-502353/

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gparted depends on:
ii  libatkmm-1.6-1      2.22.6-1
ii  libc6               2.13-38
ii  libgcc1             1:4.7.2-5
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii  libglibmm-2.4-1c2a  2.32.1-1
ii  libgtk2.0-0         2.24.10-2
ii  libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a   1:2.24.2-1
ii  libpangomm-1.4-1    2.28.4-1
ii  libparted0debian1   2.3-12
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a  2.2.10-0.2
ii  libstdc++6          4.7.2-5
ii  libuuid1            2.20.1-5.3

gparted recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gparted suggests:
pn  dmraid         <none>
ii  dmsetup        2:1.02.74-7
ii  dosfstools     3.0.13-1
pn  gpart          <none>
pn  jfsutils       <none>
pn  kpartx         <none>
pn  ntfsprogs      <none>
pn  reiser4progs   <none>
pn  reiserfsprogs  <none>
pn  xfsprogs       <none>
ii  yelp           3.4.2-1+b1

-- debconf-show failed

Yours truly,
 - Mark Kolloros


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