gparted hangs with unmounted external drives

Bug #104235 reported by Daniel Finnie
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gparted

To reproduce:
1. Have an external hard drive (mine was USB) plugged in.
2. Unmount the drive if it was automatically mounted.
2. Open gparted from the menu, I found gparted at the command line didn't work reliably.
3. Note that gparted says "Scanning all devices" forever.
4. Mount the drive. gparted instantly shows all of my hard drives.
5. Right click the drive in gparted, it goes back to "scanning all devices"
6. Here's the kicker: Unplug the hard drive while gparted is doing its "scanning all devices."
7. gparted goes back to normal.
8. Plug the hard drive back in
8. gparted goes back to normal and lets you format the external hard drive that you were plugging in and out.

This is on Feisty.

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Samuel Abels (knipknap) wrote :

Same problem here with a USB thumb drive.

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Saivann Carignan (oxmosys) wrote :

Tested on Ubuntu Gutsy tribe 6, Gparted ver. 0.3.3-2ubuntu3

I can open Gparted while my 250 Gb Iomega external USB HD with 1 fat32 partition and 1 ext3 partition, no matter they are mounted or umounted ( I tested the two ).

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Saivann Carignan (oxmosys) wrote :

I still didn't get to reproduce that bug yet.

Can somebody still reproduce the bug?

Changed in gparted:
assignee: nobody → saivann
status: New → Invalid
status: Invalid → Incomplete
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Saivann Carignan (oxmosys) wrote :

Since this bug report did not have answers during a long time, I set the status to invalid but please feel free to re-open it by changing the status to "new" if you can still reproduce the bug and provide needed information. Thanks for your contribution to ubuntu.

Changed in gparted:
assignee: saivann → nobody
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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apug15 (pugaonkar) wrote :

use this :
gksudo gparted /dev/sda

if u have 2 hdds use :
gksudo gparted /dev/sda /dev/sdb .... and so on !

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zipcodeman (zabu-other+lp) wrote :

The problem seems to stem from dosfsck (dosfsck -a -w -v /dev/sdb1 for me) checking a fat32 partition, when i tried that command in the terminal it nook a similar amount of time.

the hang isn't permanent, it just takes a long time to complete the command.

Changed in gparted (Ubuntu):
status: Invalid → New
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Jan Claeys (janc) wrote :

I tested this on Ubuntu 9.04 and didn't have any problems.

@zipcodeman: maybe your drive was not unmounted cleanly or such?

Changed in gparted (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Davim (davim) wrote :

I have the same problem with one 1Tb disk, I whant to resize it's fat32 partition, i start gparted and as soon as I unmount the partition it hangs...

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Curtis Gedak (gedakc) wrote :

This is a known problem with very large FAT file systems as tracked in the following upstream report:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=569921

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rusivi2 (rusivi2-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. I noticed the package your bugging is updated in Maverick. Does this occur in it? If so, please feel free to mark this bug as new. Thanks in advance!

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jyzvuhda (jyzvuhda) wrote :

Running Lubuntu 14.04.1, I recently had an issue similar to the one described in the top post. In my case it is my belief the effect in gparted was caused by trying to read a MicroSDHC card in combination with a card reader that only supports cards up to the MicroSD standard.

(According to Wikipedia MicroSDHC was announced in 2006.)

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