** Summary changed:
- gparted hangs "Scanning all Devices" for ever
+ gparted hangs "Scanning all Devices" forever (because of /dev/fd0)
** Description changed:
-
- In my system, starting gparted all I get is the app window saying
"Scanning all devices" for ever (== at least half an hour... that's as far as
my patience goes :))
+ In my system, starting gparted all I get is the app window saying
+ "Scanning all devices" for ever (== at least half an hour... that's as
+ far as my patience goes :))
Disappointingly enough, this happens even when booting with with the
Gutsy 7.10 official Live CD (with the disk having no partition table at
all - brand new). Only the SATA disk installed in the system.
It also happens after the successful installation with the disk fully
partitioned.
All this is with my new SATA seagate 7200.10 750gb disk and I needed
to create extended partitions (which the default Ubuntu Installer
partitioner wouldn't let me do... that's why I needed gparted), so I
finally had to use an external tool to do it (acronis). In the past
(feisty and before), gparted worked great in similar scenarios and I
didn't have to resort to external tools (acronis worked great, and is a
linux app as well).
HW description:
MOBO: old ASUS P4C800 (i875P) with integrated IDE and SATA
Controller & disk, from lshw:
*-ide:1
description: IDE interface
product: 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.2
bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:00:1f.2
logical name: scsi2
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: ide bus_master emulated
configuration: driver=ata_piix latency=0 module=ata_piix
*-disk
description: SCSI Disk
product: ST3750640AS
vendor: ATA
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sda
version: 3.AA
serial: 5QD0WGPC
size: 698GB
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: ansiversion=5
*-volume:0
description: Linux filesystem partition
physical id: 1
bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0.0.0,1
logical name: /dev/sda1
capacity: 25GB
capabilities: primary bootable
*-volume:1
description: Linux swap / Solaris partition
physical id: 2
bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0.0.0,2
logical name: /dev/sda2
capacity: 3074MB
capabilities: primary nofs
*-volume:2
description: Linux filesystem partition
physical id: 3
bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0.0.0,3
logical name: /dev/sda3
capacity: 25GB
capabilities: primary
*-volume:3
description: Extended partition
physical id: 4
bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0.0.0,4
size: 645GB
capacity: 645GB
capabilities: primary extended partitioned
partitioned:extended
*-logicalvolume:0
description: Linux filesystem partition
physical id: 5
logical name: /dev/sda5
capacity: 85GB
*-logicalvolume:1
description: Linux filesystem partition
physical id: 6
logical name: /dev/sda6
capacity: 550GB
*-logicalvolume:2
description: HPFS/NTFS partition
physical id: 7
logical name: /dev/sda7
capacity: 10GB
Thanks a bunch for this great distro!!
** Description changed:
In my system, starting gparted all I get is the app window saying
"Scanning all devices" for ever (== at least half an hour... that's as
far as my patience goes :))
- Disappointingly enough, this happens even when booting with with the
- Gutsy 7.10 official Live CD (with the disk having no partition table at
- all - brand new). Only the SATA disk installed in the system.
+ If a floppy drive is activated in the computer BIOS, but not available
+ physically, gparted enters an infinite loop while scanning devices.
- It also happens after the successful installation with the disk fully
- partitioned.
-
- All this is with my new SATA seagate 7200.10 750gb disk and I needed
- to create extended partitions (which the default Ubuntu Installer
- partitioner wouldn't let me do... that's why I needed gparted), so I
- finally had to use an external tool to do it (acronis). In the past
- (feisty and before), gparted worked great in similar scenarios and I
- didn't have to resort to external tools (acronis worked great, and is a
- linux app as well).
-
- HW description:
-
- MOBO: old ASUS P4C800 (i875P) with integrated IDE and SATA
-
- Controller & disk, from lshw:
-
- *-ide:1
- description: IDE interface
- product: 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller
- vendor: Intel Corporation
- physical id: 1f.2
- bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:00:1f.2
- logical name: scsi2
- version: 02
- width: 32 bits
- clock: 66MHz
- capabilities: ide bus_master emulated
- configuration: driver=ata_piix latency=0 module=ata_piix
- *-disk
- description: SCSI Disk
- product: ST3750640AS
- vendor: ATA
- physical id: 0.0.0
- bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0.0.0
- logical name: /dev/sda
- version: 3.AA
- serial: 5QD0WGPC
- size: 698GB
- capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
- configuration: ansiversion=5
- *-volume:0
- description: Linux filesystem partition
- physical id: 1
- bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0.0.0,1
- logical name: /dev/sda1
- capacity: 25GB
- capabilities: primary bootable
- *-volume:1
- description: Linux swap / Solaris partition
- physical id: 2
- bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0.0.0,2
- logical name: /dev/sda2
- capacity: 3074MB
- capabilities: primary nofs
- *-volume:2
- description: Linux filesystem partition
- physical id: 3
- bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0.0.0,3
- logical name: /dev/sda3
- capacity: 25GB
- capabilities: primary
- *-volume:3
- description: Extended partition
- physical id: 4
- bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0.0.0,4
- size: 645GB
- capacity: 645GB
- capabilities: primary extended partitioned
partitioned:extended
- *-logicalvolume:0
- description: Linux filesystem partition
- physical id: 5
- logical name: /dev/sda5
- capacity: 85GB
- *-logicalvolume:1
- description: Linux filesystem partition
- physical id: 6
- logical name: /dev/sda6
- capacity: 550GB
- *-logicalvolume:2
- description: HPFS/NTFS partition
- physical id: 7
- logical name: /dev/sda7
- capacity: 10GB
-
-
- Thanks a bunch for this great distro!!
+ WORKAROUNDS:
+ a) disable your floppy drive in the computer BIOS
+ b) start gparted with the device you want to work on, e.g. "gparted /dev/sda"
+ c) NOT RECOMMENDED/UNTESTED: move away /dev/fd0 before starting gparted
** Tags added: metabug
** Changed in: gparted (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Confirmed
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gparted hangs "Scanning all Devices" forever (because of /dev/fd0)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/155047
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