Palimpsest disk utility is annoying

[Michael Doube]

Testing Karmic alpha 4, I get an alarming message when booting into Gnome that I have a disk error and have to check it out. The new palimpsest disk utility tells me I have bad sectors, while smartctl tells me my disk passes but has 1 bad sector.

My smartctl log shows an Offline_Uncorrectable raw count of 1, so there is a bad sector.

Could Palimpsest be somehow less annoying or more helpful, for example by allowing me to tell it not to warn me every time I log in unless something bad has changed, or to show me how to fix errors that are fixable.

I fixed my error following the instructions here:
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/badblockhowto.html

[Alex Bernea (alex-bernea)]

I am still experiencing this problem in karmic (all updates installed to date)

[gpk (gpk-kochanski)]

Fedora seems to have encountered this problem before.
They seem very suspicious about the warnings.
Quite possibly, the palimpsest application or the underlying
libraries are buggy.

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-220231.html

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

The upstream fix is in karmic.