throws exception for non-512-byte logical sectors

[Budly]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.5

Trying to re-install Ubuntu for dual boot on a Dell with XPP SP3.

Machine was freezing on Ubuntu startup.

Uninstalled Ubuntu on Windows side.

Removed Ubuntu from boot.ini

Rebooted.

Using either wubi.exe or a CD, I get to the same place and freeze.

Attached image is a screen shot of error message.

Done this before:

Ubuntu - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7KAE_02VB0 - 2 min 56 sec

Never seen the message before.

Thanx,

Budly
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ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jan 10 12:19:33 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: firefox-3.5 3.5.7+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic i686

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Not a Firefox issue...needs reassignment

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package parted - 2.1-2ubuntu1

---------------
parted (2.1-2ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * Resynchronise with Debian experimental (LP: #511075). Remaining
    changes:
    - gptsync.dpatch: On Intel Mac systems, write a synced MBR rather than a
      protective MBR.
    - Add -fno-stack-protector on sparc.
    - sparc-new-label.dpatch: Fix sparc disk label generation. This is
      required for LDOM and parallel installations with Solaris 10.
    - loop-partitions.dpatch: Loop devices can only have one partition, so
      don't generate device names such as "/dev/loop0p1".
    - udevadm-settle.dpatch: Run 'udevadm settle' either side of rereading
      the partition table, to avoid a variety of races.
    - dmraid.dpatch: Ensure that device-mapper devices for dmraid arrays do
      not have extra nodes created needlessly, as well as making sure that
      partition nodes for dmraid devices are not probed.
  * Upstream fixes:
    - Supports non-512-byte logical sectors (LP: #505549).
    - Do not discard bootcode from extended partition on msdos label when
      some of the logical partitions are changed (LP: #445067).
    - Don't use msftres flag for FAT/NTFS partitions on GPT (LP: #397386).

parted (2.1-2) experimental; urgency=low

  * Build-depend on libblkid-dev, since otherwise we don't get
    minimum/optimum alignment handling on Linux.

parted (2.1-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * New upstream release

  [ Otavio Salvador ]
  * control.in: bump preferred soname for libreadline (closes: #553824).

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * control.in: Remove copy-and-paste error from libparted1.8-i18n
    description (closes: #497626).
  * copyright: Document parted.info's licence, namely GFDL 1.1 with no
    invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts (closes:
    #500201).
  * rules: Cell partition tables are misdetected as pc98, so disable pc98
    support on powerpc (closes: #487833).
  * control.in: Don't build-depend on libdevmapper-dev on hurd-i386.
  * control.in: Build-depend on libdevmapper-dev (>= 1.02.33), for
    dm_task_set_major_minor.

  [ Xavier Oswald ]
  * debian/control.in:
    - Change my mail address
    - Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.3
    - Update Build-Depends on debhelper 7
  * debian/compat: update version to 7
  * Parted not informing the kernel of changes to the partition table
    (Closes: #557044), fixed upstream

  [ Otavio Salvador ]
  * debian/watch: fix URL to download
  * Switch to quilt to manage patches
    - unpartitioned-disks.dpatch, drop (merged upstream)
    - unblacklist-md.dpatch, drop (merged upstream)
    - amiga-raid-lvm-fix.dpatch, drop (not used for ages)
    - devfs.dpatch, drop (devfs is not used)
    - reiserfs-libname.dpatch, drop (referenced library is unavailable)

  [ Xavier Oswald, Colin Watson ]
  * Refresh update-ext4-code.patch

  [ Otavio Salvador ]
  * Fix parted-doc info files installation
  * Add lintian overrides for parted package
  * Use soname in libparted udeb name
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:27:21 +0000

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Hmm, apparently parted 2.1 still throws an exception about this, despite containing more or less the necessary support. I've mailed upstream about this.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

This appears to have been fixed long ago.