gparted does not finish scanning when in live session USB drive

[warren]

1) Lubuntu 12.10 i386 Beta2 25 September 2012, 03:06
2) gparted 0.12.1-1
3) In the live session I expect gparted to finish scanning drives so the application can be used.
4) If gparted does not finish scanning in a minute I assume it is not going to finish. I have reported problems with gparted before the bug numbers are bug #1044111 and bug #1029149 perhaps these bugs are related to gparted scanning while in live session.
I have attached a screenshot displaying the scanning process.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: gparted 0.12.1-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-15.23-generic 3.5.4
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-15-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.5.2-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.324
Date: Wed Sep 26 01:33:37 2012
LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Beta i386 (20120925)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gparted
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1056540

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

gparted seems to take specific devices as arguments e.g. 'sudo gparted /dev/sda'. Perhaps you could narrow this done by checking individual devices in your environment. Thanks!

[warren (wkclemmons)]

Brian

80GB HDD /dev/sda
250GB HDD /dev/sdb

I do not know if this matters but here is a comparison list I made.
Xubuntu 12.10 Beta2 installed to 80Gb Hdd
gnome-disk-utility works No Bug
gparted works No Bug
hardInfo works No Bug

Lubuntu 12.10 Beta2 Live USB
gnome-disk-utility Bug#983681
gparted Bug#1056540
hard Info Bug#1029212

Thanks
warren

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

Is this BIOS of this machine configured to think that it has a floppy drive, when in fact, it does not?

[warren (wkclemmons)]

No

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

You also reported bug #1029149, is this a duplicate?

[warren (wkclemmons)]

Yes