palimpsest / gnome-disk-utility stopped working normally from recently - incorrectly says that "SMART is not available" !!
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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devicekit-disks (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-disk-utility
Palimpsest Disk Utility / gnome-disk-utility was working fine atleast until 15 days ago. I often used to check my hard disk working temperature in palimpsest.
But now it says "SMART is not available" !! SMART feature hasn't been changed or disabled in BIOS. Other SMART applications seems to be working fine in Windows (I have both Windows and Linux installed on my laptop).
Its hard to guess what has changed in 15 days which has rendered palimpsest not to work normally as it used to work. The only thing I can think of is that I updated using update-manager a week ago (which I usually do once in a week). I don't know whether palimpsest was updated or any other dependent packages of palimpsest was updated; which could have caused this problem.
Please look into this and give a solution.
Also, many people seem to have encountered this problem recently as this thread says:
http://
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Apr 1 18:30:14 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: gnome-disk-utility 2.28.0+
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_IN
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
(gnome-
(gnome-
(polkit-
(nautilus:2106): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences
(firefox:2679): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times
Thank you for your bug report. However, this is intentional as a workaround for bug 445852, and is explained in the changelog for the last devicekit-disks upload (which should have been viewable in update-manager when you updated):
devicekit-disks (007-2ubuntu6) karmic-proposed; urgency=low
* Add 11-disable- smart-probing. patch: Disable ATA SMART probing on ATA
disks. It causes hardware damage to a lot of SSD disks. This is a
workaround, until a real fix in libatasmart is found. (LP: #445852)
-- Martin Pitt <<email address hidden> > Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:47:35 +0100
See https:/ /edge.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ devicekit- disks/007- 2ubuntu6