devkit-disks-daemon assert failure: devkit-disks-daemon: atasmart.c:2725: sk_disk_set_blob: Assertion `blob' failed.

[David Whyte]

Binary package hint: devicekit-disks

Ubuntu 9.10
devicekit-disks 007-2ubuntu3

Returned to machine to find crash warning icon displaying. On first trying to send bug report, crash warning repeated when bug report page opened.

Machine has 500Gb usb disk attached.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
AssertionMessage: devkit-disks-daemon: atasmart.c:2725: sk_disk_set_blob: Assertion `blob' failed.
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Mon Nov 2 16:38:28 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/devicekit-disks/devkit-disks-daemon
MachineType: Dell Computer Corporation Dimension 8300
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: devicekit-disks 007-2ubuntu3
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=FE4476CE447688E3 loop=/hostname/disks/root.disk ro quiet splash
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/devicekit-disks/devkit-disks-daemon
ProcEnviron:

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_set_blob () from /lib/libatasmart.so.4
Title: devkit-disks-daemon assert failure: devkit-disks-daemon: atasmart.c:2725: sk_disk_set_blob: Assertion `blob' failed.
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
UserGroups: admin avahi avahi-autoipd crontab fuse gdm haldaemon klog libuuid lpadmin messagebus mlocate netdev polkituser pulse pulse-access root sambashare saned ssh ssl-cert syslog users
dmi.bios.date: 02/23/2004
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
dmi.bios.version: A05
dmi.board.name: 0W2562
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Computer Corp.
dmi.chassis.type: 6
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellComputerCorporation:bvrA05:bd02/23/2004:svnDellComputerCorporation:pnDimension8300:pvr:rvnDellComputerCorp.:rn0W2562:rvr:cvnDellComputerCorporation:ct6:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Dimension 8300
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation

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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 #449446, 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.