Error creating partition: ... You requested a partition from X to Y

[themusicgod1]

Brand new hard drive, newly formatted by gnome-disks, went to add a new filesystem to it

> ext4+LUKS
partition size (default at 4001 GB) free space following (default at 0 GB)
erase: don't erase
name: hedy1
password: *********
confirm password: *********
[create]

result:
Error creating partition on /dev/sdb: Command-line `parted --align optimal --script "/dev/sdb" "mkpart \" \" ext2 1MiB 4000752582143b"' exited with non-zero exit status 1: Error: You requested a partition from 1049kB to 4001GB (sectors 256..976746235).
The closest location we can manage is 1049kB to 4001GB (sectors 256..976746234).
 (udisks-error-quark, 0)

Ubuntu : 15.10
gnome-disk-utility: 3.16.2-0ubuntu2

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: gnome-disk-utility 3.16.2-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-16.19-generic 4.2.3
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Tue Jun 21 20:07:12 2016
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-07-09 (713 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Alpha amd64 (20140708)
SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to wily on 2016-04-21 (61 days ago)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.