Crashes when an unrecognized partition exists

[Max Bowsher]

Binary package hint: gparted

gparted crashed with the following console output:

glibmm-ERROR **:
unhandled exception (type std::exception) in signal handler:
what: basic_string::_S_create

aborting...

Originally, this crash was triggered by a disk with an msdos disklabel and one partition containing an LVM PV.

I then dd-ed zeroes over the first gigabyte ---> no longer crashes.

I then created *within gparted* an msdos disklabel and one unformatted partition. ---> on restarting it, gparted crashes in the same way!

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gparted 0.6.2-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.34-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Oct 16 21:40:38 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ProcEnviron:
 LC_COLLATE=C
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gparted

[Curtis Gedak (gedakc)]

This looks like a duplicate of the following bug report:

gparted crash at start: glibmm-ERROR **
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gparted/+bug/617885

This problem was fixed in the upstream release of GParted 0.7.0.