Ubuntu
gparted package

  1. Bug #545911
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 545911

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Caysho (caysho) wrote : Re: Cannot use gparted

I was getting this problem when installing 10.10 onto an ASUS K52F notebook from a USB stick prepared by UNetbootin on Windows XP SP3.
I could run the "Live CD", and gparted would segfault when run from the command line.
The GUI install just hangs.

I did get it working after I did the install from a CD - that was fine.

Maybe the partitioner is getting confused and is trying to get a read/write lock on the device the installer is booted from (USB stick) ?
The CD I used was a CDRW, but I expect it booted as read only.
In the BIOS, I had to set both the USB stick as the first in the boot order and in the drive order to get the USB stick to boot.