Hi Phillip, Other bug posts that are related to this bug post are as follows:
gparted just crash when my thumbdrive (Kingston DataTraveler G3 4Gb) is pluged in. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gparted/+bug/657784 Gparted close when mount usb device https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gparted/+bug/695341 Verbatim USB stick crashes gParted https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gparted/+bug/710696 There have also been at least two reports of this problem upstream in the bug-parted mailing lists: Re: Bug report http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2011-02/msg00002.html Verbatim USB drive crashes libparted http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2011-02/msg00000.html In each of the above two cases, I manually went through the calculations for head_size (the number of sectors that would pass under a single disk head in a single rotation of the disk), and in each case the value was greater than 63. From the MBR specification, the range for sectors is from 1 to 63. Master Boot Record http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record There is also a post in the parted-devel mailing list regarding this problem: > 63 heads. Why does this keep coming up? http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2011-February/003796.html I think it would be preferable if the libparted library were better able to indicate this problem to the user, as opposed to throwing a stack trace. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/545911 Title: Cannot use gparted -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
