Disk Utility reports "disk has many bad sectors"

[dejan]

Binary package hint: yelp

Palimpsest Disk Utility 2.28.0 reports "disk has many bad sectors".

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 30 15:30:41 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: yelp 2.28.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[ooze (zoe-gauthier)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs .

[MayureshDalal (mayuresh-dalal)]

It does seem to be a bug. There seem to be a LOT of users saying that Palimpsest reports that after upgrading to 9.10 from 9.04.

I seem to have the same issue Eveything was fine when I was running Jaunty

[MaTrIx (matrixx7)]

duplicate of bug #438136