gparted 0.6.2 crashes after unformatted partition created

[candtalan]

Binary package hint: gparted

I created an unpartitioned space (38GB) (in logical area) on a drive. Then later I created a new partition to nominally fill this space, but chose to leave it Unpartitioned.
I noted that the new partition was auto placed a megabyte or so away from an adjacent partition, I guess that is normal.
The change was committed ok but when re scanning for the new configuration, gparted crashed, and will not again start in this machine.

My initial experience with this was with ubuntu 10.10 desktop (Live) CD, described above.

I subsequently used an installed ubuntu 10.10 on this same machine (multi drive, multi OS machine) with a gparted from Ubuntu software centre, gparted version 0.6.2-1ubuntu1(gparted), and this also crashes now in this machine, and will not run.

I also have ubuntu 9.10 on this machine, with an installed gparted version 0.4.5 (from its ubuntu software centre) and this does not crash and seems to still run ok. Albeit it declares an 'unknown' file system on the unformatted partition.

The hard drive containing the new unformatted partition apparently giving trouble also has windows xp and the ubuntu 9.10, and both of these still run ok. I conclude that there is no major corruption in the drive perhaps none at all. Just that the later version of gparted does not like an unformatted partition.

information, from the installed Ubuntu 10.10
apt-cache policy gparted
gparted:
  Installed: 0.6.2-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.6.2-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.6.2-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[candtalan (aeclist)]

further information:
using an earlier version of gparted (in ubuntu 9.10 gparted version 0.4.5) the previously unformatted partition is now formatted to ext4.

Gparted 0.6.2 now runs ok, now that there is no longer an unformatted partition in the machine drive/s.

[candtalan (aeclist)]

For information, the background of this bug discovery came out of experiments in installation of Ubuntu 10.10 and using the live CD, after initially starting with an unallocated space on the target hard drive.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1596630

[Kal Palatov (lambda25)]

I too have experienced the same bug. By using the Disk manager utility instead of gparted I deleted the unformated space and so was again able to load Gparted, without having to play around with different versions of gparted.

I would confirm that it must be the unformatted space that is causing gparted to crash.

I was using ubuntu 10.10 desktop (live) USB.

[Curtis Gedak (gedakc)]

This sounds similar to a previously reported bug:

bug #617885 - gparted crash at start: glibmm-ERROR **

This bug is fixed in upstream GParted 0.7.0. Please try GParted 0.7.0 or higher to see if the problem is resolved for you. If you do not wish to compile GParted directly, you can download a live CD image at:
http://gparted.org/livecd.php