Package: gparted Version: 0.7.0-1 Severity: important When I plug a brand new iomega Ego USB hard drive (500Go, mac edition), I cannot launch gparted.
Extract from syslog file when drive is plugged: /var/log/syslog: Jun 14 13:37:45 papillon kernel: [10673.328139] usb 2-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5 Jun 14 13:37:45 papillon kernel: [10673.632463] hub 2-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 4 Jun 14 13:37:49 papillon kernel: [10677.076114] usb 2-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6 Jun 14 13:37:49 papillon kernel: [10677.215558] usb 2-4: New USB device found, idVendor=059b, idProduct=047c Jun 14 13:37:49 papillon kernel: [10677.215567] usb 2-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 Jun 14 13:37:49 papillon kernel: [10677.215574] usb 2-4: Product: Iomega eGo HDD Jun 14 13:37:49 papillon kernel: [10677.215578] usb 2-4: Manufacturer: Iomega Jun 14 13:37:49 papillon kernel: [10677.215583] usb 2-4: SerialNumber: 0000000001001924 Jun 14 13:37:49 papillon kernel: [10677.215831] usb 2-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Jun 14 13:37:49 papillon kernel: [10677.218329] scsi8 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Jun 14 13:37:49 papillon kernel: [10677.218675] usb-storage: device found at 6 Jun 14 13:37:49 papillon kernel: [10677.218680] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Jun 14 13:37:54 papillon kernel: [10682.217137] usb-storage: device scan complete Jun 14 13:37:54 papillon kernel: [10682.218914] scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access External RAID 0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4 Jun 14 13:37:54 papillon kernel: [10682.220087] sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 Jun 14 13:37:54 papillon kernel: [10682.222353] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] 976773168 512-byte logical blocks: (500 GB/465 GiB) Jun 14 13:37:54 papillon kernel: [10682.223464] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off Jun 14 13:37:54 papillon kernel: [10682.223471] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 10 00 00 00 Jun 14 13:37:54 papillon kernel: [10682.223476] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through Jun 14 13:37:54 papillon kernel: [10682.227091] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through Jun 14 13:37:54 papillon kernel: [10682.227217] sdb: [mac] sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 sdb4 sdb5 sdb6 sdb7 sdb8 sdb9 sdb10 sdb11 Jun 14 13:37:54 papillon kernel: [10682.261236] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through Jun 14 13:37:54 papillon kernel: [10682.261245] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk Jun 14 13:37:54 papillon kernel: [10682.724951] hfs: write access to a journaled filesystem is not supported, use the force option at your own risk, mounting read-only. As stated, volume is in read-only mode. So that, I wanted to format USB drive with gparted. Unfortunately, gparted does not launch. Here is console output (gparted window appears quickly and then closes without any message): papillon:~# gparted ====================== libparted : 2.3 ====================== Backtrace has 14 calls on stack: 14: /lib/libparted.so.0(ped_assert+0x31) [0x7f0558267351] 13: /lib/libparted.so.0(ped_geometry_read+0x80) [0x7f055826ed70] 12: /lib/libparted.so.0(hfsplus_probe+0x247) [0x7f0558285b47] 11: /lib/libparted.so.0(ped_file_system_probe_specific+0x5c) [0x7f055826892c] 10: /lib/libparted.so.0(ped_file_system_probe+0xab) [0x7f0558268edb] 9: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x46e8d) [0x7f055829ae8d] 8: /lib/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_new+0x75) [0x7f055826e505] 7: /usr/sbin/gpartedbin() [0x44be94] 6: /usr/sbin/gpartedbin() [0x45d561] 5: /usr/sbin/gpartedbin() [0x478cf7] 4: /usr/lib/libglibmm-2.4.so.1(+0x38632) [0x7f0556cd4632] 3: /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(+0x67784) [0x7f055612a784] 2: /lib/libpthread.so.0(+0x68ba) [0x7f05557018ba] 1: /lib/libc.so.6(clone+0x6d) [0x7f055546902d] Same issue occurs after unmounting USB device. Here is lsusb -v output for this device: Bus 002 Device 006: ID 059b:047c Iomega Corp. Device Descriptor: bLength 18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 2.00 bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level) bDeviceSubClass 0 bDeviceProtocol 0 bMaxPacketSize0 64 idVendor 0x059b Iomega Corp. idProduct 0x047c bcdDevice 0.00 iManufacturer 1 Iomega iProduct 2 Iomega eGo HDD iSerial 3 0000000001001924 bNumConfigurations 1 Configuration Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 2 wTotalLength 32 bNumInterfaces 1 bConfigurationValue 1 iConfiguration 5 Config0 bmAttributes 0x80 (Bus Powered) MaxPower 500mA Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 0 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 2 bInterfaceClass 8 Mass Storage bInterfaceSubClass 6 SCSI bInterfaceProtocol 80 Bulk (Zip) iInterface 4 Interface0 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x01 EP 1 OUT bmAttributes 2 Transfer Type Bulk Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes bInterval 0 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN bmAttributes 2 Transfer Type Bulk Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes bInterval 0 Device Qualifier (for other device speed): bLength 10 bDescriptorType 6 bcdUSB 2.00 bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level) bDeviceSubClass 0 bDeviceProtocol 0 bMaxPacketSize0 64 bNumConfigurations 1 Device Status: 0x0000 (Bus Powered) I can wait some days (a week or two max.) before formating this drive if you want me to make some tests and/or provide more informations. @+ Fernando -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (988, 'stable'), (986, 'stable'), (984, 'oldstable'), (982, 'oldstable'), (98, 'unstable'), (96, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages gparted depends on: ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-8 GCC support library ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.2-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libglibmm-2.4-1c2a 2.24.2-1 C++ wrapper for the GLib toolkit ( ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a 1:2.20.3-1 C++ wrappers for GTK+ (shared libr ii libpangomm-1.4-1 2.26.2-1 C++ Wrapper for pango (shared libr ii libparted0debian1 2.3-5 The GNU Parted disk partitioning s ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.2.4.2-1 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 Versions of packages gparted recommends: ii gksu 2.0.2-5 graphical frontend to su Versions of packages gparted suggests: pn dmraid <none> (no description available) ii dmsetup 2:1.02.48-5 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use ii dosfstools 3.0.9-1 utilities for making and checking pn jfsutils <none> (no description available) ii kpartx 0.4.8+git0.761c66f-9 create device mappings for partiti ii ntfsprogs 2.0.0-1+b1 tools for doing neat things in NTF pn reiser4progs <none> (no description available) pn reiserfsprogs <none> (no description available) pn xfsprogs <none> (no description available) ii yelp 2.30.1+webkit-1 Help browser for GNOME -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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