I have found part of the puzzle I think. the partition on the brand new USB stick started at 3 not 1 hear is the fdisk
/dev/sdg1 3 2191 3938368 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) I then used a Gparted livecd ....Gparted-0.3.1 GNU-parted-1.7.1 to repartition it and reformat it so now fdisk shows this /dev/sdg1 1 490 3935893+ b W95 FAT32 and the crashing of Gparted-0.5.1and parted (GNU parted) 2.2 runing in Kubuntu 10.04 LTS 32 bit KDE-4.5.3 has stopped and they will work with the stick but it remains to wander why didn't the Gparted livecd crash ? VINNY -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/581144 Title: gparted crashes when usb flash drive inserted. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
