gparted crashes on launching (on live USB)

[Chris Beaven]

Binary package hint: gparted

gparted window shows, and the status bar says "Searching /dev/sda partitions..." then it crashes. Apported couldn't produce an error report (this bug report was generated with "ubuntu-bug gparted"

Here's the command line backtrace:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo -i
root@ubuntu:~# gparted
======================
libparted : 2.2
======================
Backtrace has 15 calls on stack:
  15: /lib/libparted.so.0(ped_assert+0x31) [0x7fe0973577c1]
  14: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x3a116) [0x7fe097382116]
  13: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x3a883) [0x7fe097382883]
  12: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x3b53d) [0x7fe09738353d]
  11: /lib/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_add_partition+0x1cb) [0x7fe09735decb]
  10: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x3c946) [0x7fe097384946]
  9: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x3caf5) [0x7fe097384af5]
  8: /lib/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_new+0x75) [0x7fe09735e9a5]
  7: /usr/sbin/gpartedbin() [0x44ab84]
  6: /usr/sbin/gpartedbin() [0x45645c]
  5: /usr/sbin/gpartedbin() [0x476c47]
  4: /usr/lib/libglibmm-2.4.so.1(+0x36862) [0x7fe095dda862]
  3: /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(+0x67b84) [0x7fe09522eb84]
  2: /lib/libpthread.so.0(+0x69ca) [0x7fe094a859ca]
  1: /lib/libc.so.6(clone+0x6d) [0x7fe0947e369d]

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gparted 0.5.1-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun May 2 21:14:13 2010
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gparted

[Curtis Gedak (gedakc)]

Can you try running the following command to see if it crashes?

     parted -l

Where the option is a lower case "L", and not the number one "1".

[Chris Beaven (smileychris)]

"parted -l" errors out too, I'm attaching the error backtrace