Did not realise there was a problem, until the 'bug report' appeared. I am used to 'Windows' and problems!!!

[Murray Riches]

Binary package hint: devicekit-disks

I must confess that my knowledge of such things can best be seen by 'Duh!'
Sorry, I am not literate computer wise.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
AssertionMessage: devkit-disks-helper-ata-smart-collect: atasmart.c:2711: sk_disk_get_blob: Assertion `(size_t) ((uint8_t*) p - (uint8_t*) d->blob) == size' failed.
Date: Sat Oct 31 12:37:14 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/devicekit-disks/devkit-disks-helper-ata-smart-collect
MachineType: Dell Inc. Dell DM061
Package: devicekit-disks 007-2ubuntu3
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=ea55188c-86c5-44fb-bad7-0a36e2449501 ro quiet splash
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/devicekit-disks/devkit-disks-helper-ata-smart-collect /dev/sdb 1
ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: devicekit-disks
StacktraceTop:
 __kernel_vsyscall ()
 raise () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 abort () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 __assert_fail () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 sk_disk_get_blob () from /lib/libatasmart.so.4
Title: devkit-disks-helper-ata-smart-collect assert failure: devkit-disks-helper-ata-smart-collect: atasmart.c:2711: sk_disk_get_blob: Assertion `(size_t) ((uint8_t*) p - (uint8_t*) d->blob) == size' failed.
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
UserGroups:

dmi.bios.date: 12/01/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 2.1.2
dmi.board.name: 0WG864
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 6
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvr2.1.2:bd12/01/2006:svnDellInc.:pnDellDM061:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0WG864:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct6:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Dell DM061
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

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Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #477742, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.