gparted fails to start for bad disk name

[Arunan Balasubramaniam]

Binary package hint: gparted

I have a USB disk with a seemingly broken name, showing up in Nautilus with unicode characters at the end (characters appear as C M 0010 001A with the last two being four small characters in a box). gparted fails to start:

======================
libparted : 2.3
======================

glibmm-ERROR **:
unhandled exception (type std::exception) in signal handler:
what: basic_string::_S_create

aborting...

gparted on Debian stable works, with the version of libparted shown as 1.8.8.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gparted 0.6.2-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Nov 3 07:58:39 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gparted

[Arunan Balasubramaniam (arunanbala)]

I tried to get a backtrace. I had to run gpartedbin, so may have not supplied arguments that the gparted script does.

[Curtis Gedak (gedakc)]

This might be related to the following bug report:

gparted crash at start: glibmm-ERROR **
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gparted/+bug/617885

Or possibly to the following upstream bug report:

Bug 629592 - Unable to find Mount Point if it contains a Space Character
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=629592

Both of these problems have been fixed in the upstream GParted 0.7.1 released on December 13, 2010.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

Is this still an issue with 11.10?

[Arunan Balasubramaniam (arunanbala)]

I have formatted the USB stick since then, sorry.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

Then I will close this report. Thank you.