[Bug 405022] Re: gparted doesn't support sector sizes > 512

2010-04-21 Thread Curtis Gedak
Support for disk devices with sectors sizes > 512 bytes is being worked on upstream. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=607165 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #607165 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=607165 -- gparted doesn't support sector sizes > 512 https://bugs.la

[Bug 48412] Re: Disk detected as unallocated

2010-04-27 Thread Curtis Gedak
Tom, from comment #21 you were seeing an error/warning "Can't have a partition outside the disk!" >From looking at the fdisk output, the partition furthest out on the disk is partition 2 156330239 sectors - End of partiton 2 156330496 sectors - Size of disk device Partition 2 certainly does fin

[Bug 545911] Re: Cannot use gparted

2010-05-07 Thread Curtis Gedak
Chris, it appears that you are able to create the crash problem using parted alone (no gparted). Next we should try to narrow the problem down to whether the problem is related to patches made to parted 2.2 in Ubuntu 10.04, or an unmodified version of parted 2.2. Would you be able to do one of th

[Bug 545911] Re: Cannot use gparted

2010-05-09 Thread Curtis Gedak
Chris, thanks for confirming the problem also exists in unpatched parted-2.2. The next step would be to raise this problem to the attention of the parted developers. You can do this by sending an email to the bug- parted mailing list (bug-par...@gnu.org) with the bug details, logs, etc. The part

[Bug 574106] Re: Request backport of gparted 0.5.2-9 (Important UPDATE - LVM fix)

2010-05-04 Thread Curtis Gedak
The version of parted included with Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx does include similar patches to restore the BLKPG capability which enables editing partitions on a device that has other partitions mounted, or active LVM partitions. The patch that Ubuntu used is described in the ChangeLog http://changel

[Bug 565590] Re: stack smashing detected /usr/sbin/gparted terminated

2010-05-04 Thread Curtis Gedak
Jan's comments are accurate regarding libparted version < 2.0 not properly supporting devices with sector sizes greater than 512 bytes. Upstream has a bug report to requesting to add support to GParted for sector sizes greater than 512 bytes. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=607165 **

[Bug 554582] Re: Gparted does not list dmraid devices

2010-05-05 Thread Curtis Gedak
The GParted code relies on device names being in the form "/dev/mapper/..." and not "/dev/dm-#" in order to work properly with dmraid devices. As such I think that that the following patch might be required (we include it on the GParted Live 0.5.2-9 image): http://git.debian.org/?p=parted/parted.

[Bug 445490] Re: gparted reports no partitions but I am using the partition now

2010-05-05 Thread Curtis Gedak
With GParted 0.5.1 an higher, an exclamation mark beside "unallocated" indicates that there is some problem with the partition or partition table. By double clicking on the partition with exclamation mark, a message is displayed indicating the warning message as it comes from the parted program.

[Bug 572907] Re: Gparted cannot see the participation of hdd

2010-05-05 Thread Curtis Gedak
Which version of GParted are you using? With GParted versions 0.5.1 and higher, an exclamation mark is displayed beside "unallocated" if there is a problem reading the partition table. You can double click on the exclamation mark and a message indicating the problem should be displayed. This mess

[Bug 566380] Re: unable to format partition

2010-05-05 Thread Curtis Gedak
This problem looks similar to one reported in the GParted Forum because it also involves the problem with "error informing kernel about partition changes": WARNING! Problem Resizing File Systems with GParted http://gparted-forum.surf4.info/viewtopic.php?id=13777 This problem might be solv

[Bug 574007] Re: gparted crashes on launching (on live USB)

2010-05-05 Thread Curtis Gedak
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". -- gparted crashes on launching (on live USB) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/574007 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ub

[Bug 558431] Re: gparted crashes at startup - Assertion failed

2010-05-05 Thread Curtis Gedak
Can you try running the following command to see if it crashes? parted -l Where the option is a lowercase "L", and not the number one "1". -- gparted crashes at startup - Assertion failed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/558431 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 554616] Re: 10.04 beta1 LiveCD GParted isn't able to reformat an USB-Stick partition

2010-05-05 Thread Curtis Gedak
What is the error message reported in the gparted details log? -- 10.04 beta1 LiveCD GParted isn't able to reformat an USB-Stick partition https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/554616 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-

[Bug 218183] Re: Gparted does not display an error dialog on overlapping partitions

2009-12-06 Thread Curtis Gedak
This bug will be fixed in an upcoming release of GParted. For more details see the following upstream bug report: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337244 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #337244 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337244 -- Gparted does not display an

[Bug 33167] Re: Hard disk combo box should provide the disk label

2009-12-06 Thread Curtis Gedak
The current version of GParted (0.5.0) displays the device node for the disk and the disk size in the disk device combo list. E.g., /dev/sdd (149.05 GB). By disk label, do you mean display the partition table type such as "MSDOS" or "GPT", or some other type of disk label? The partition table t

[Bug 194893] Re: Gparted Better Nomenclature ?

2009-12-06 Thread Curtis Gedak
My apologies Bruce. I had forgotten to subscribe to this bug report and missed your response from a number of months back. I agree that this long outstanding bug report should now be closed. -- Gparted Better Nomenclature ? https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/194893 You received this bug notificati

[Bug 104235] Re: gparted hangs with unmounted external drives

2009-12-06 Thread Curtis Gedak
This is a known problem with very large FAT file systems as tracked in the following upstream report: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=569921 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #569921 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=569921 -- gparted hangs with unmounted external dr

[Bug 48412] Re: Disk detected as unallocated

2010-04-13 Thread Curtis Gedak
Tom, I believe that you have encountered two separate problems. 1) "Can't have a partition outside the disk!". To diagnose this problem, the output from the command "fdisk -l -u /dev/mapper/pdc_jcchiiab" would be useful. That way we can determine if one of the partitions (perhaps the extended p

[Bug 554582] Re: Gparted does not see striped disks on Fasttrack100 controller

2010-04-13 Thread Curtis Gedak
I have been able to confirm this problem using the "ubuntu-10.04-beta2-desktop-i386.iso" disk image. My Intel software RAID (/dev/mapper/isw_cjbdddajhi_Vol0) does not display in the drop down list in GParted. GParted Live 0.5.2-7, which uses parted-2.2, does work and successfully recognizes my Int

[Bug 48412] Re: Disk detected as unallocated

2010-03-16 Thread Curtis Gedak
Sam, which version of GParted are you using? With GParted 0.5.1 and higher, an exclamation mark will be shown beside the single unallocated partition if there is a problem with recognizing the partition table. When you double-click on the exclamation point to view the error message text. -- Dis

[Bug 48412] Re: Disk detected as unallocated

2010-03-16 Thread Curtis Gedak
The warning comes from the libparted library. With GParted versions 0.5.0 and earlier you would not have seen this warning message. Now you know the cause of the problem and why GParted and Parted are unable to work with the partition table. It appears that there is at least one disk partition t

[Bug 532277] Re: Copying a huge NTFS partition (e.g., > 100 GB) never finishes

2010-03-30 Thread Curtis Gedak
The debian package for GParted 0.5.2 is available now. http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=gparted -- Copying a huge NTFS partition (e.g., > 100 GB) never finishes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532277 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is su

[Bug 405022] Re: gparted doesn't support sector sizes > 512

2010-04-24 Thread Curtis Gedak
Diego, at the moment no additional information is required, at least from my perspective. The problem with GParted crashing was avoided in version 0.5.1 by having GParted ignore devices with sector sizes > 512 bytes. See the following bug report for more details. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show

[Bug 554582] Re: Gparted does not list dmraid devices

2010-05-30 Thread Curtis Gedak
Hi danwood76, I believe you have solved the mystery of why GParted does not list dmraid partitions -- kpartx is missing! As far as I know, the kpartx command does not "rename devices that end in a letter to XXXp1". If this is indeed happening then the nature of how the kpartx command appears to

[Bug 554582] Re: Gparted does not list dmraid devices

2010-05-31 Thread Curtis Gedak
Phillip, If the upstream dmraid command has changed the way it names partitions, then perhaps kpartx is no longer required. In the past, GParted required kpartx because dmraid did not follow the partition naming guidelines outlined in the general rule of thumb listed in comment #11. In fact this

[Bug 428133] Re: gparted brings up devicekit-disks authentication when scanning

2010-05-31 Thread Curtis Gedak
Martin, It would appear that the devkit-disks command has been renamed to udisks on December 1st, 2009. See: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/DeviceKit-disks See also: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324220#c64 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #324220 https://bugzilla

[Bug 554582] Re: Gparted does not list dmraid devices

2010-05-31 Thread Curtis Gedak
Phillip, do you recall when dmraid support was added to libparted? Phillip Susi wrote in comment #17: > It sounds like dmraid.cc can be removed then. Libparted now directly > supports dmraid devices and handles the dev node creation. Actually now > we are using devfs for /dev, so the kernel c

[Bug 554582] Re: Gparted does not list dmraid devices

2010-05-31 Thread Curtis Gedak
Thank you Phillip for indicating that "Libparted now directly supports dmraid devices and handles the dev node creation". And also thank you Danny for saying that "When gparted tries to format my devices that end in a letter kpartx has renamed these to XXXp1". This behaviour Danny mentioned seeme

[Bug 554582] Re: Gparted does not list dmraid devices

2010-05-31 Thread Curtis Gedak
s/Since kpartx was used/Since kpartx was NOT used/ :-) -- Gparted does not list dmraid devices https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/554582 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.

[Bug 554582] Re: Gparted does not list dmraid devices

2010-06-01 Thread Curtis Gedak
Phillip Susi wrote: > On 05/31/2010 02:00 PM, Curtis Gedak wrote: >> Unfortunately I do not think that dmraid can simply be removed at >> this point in time. Following are the reasons that I believe >> DMRaid.cc is needed for at least a while longer (perhaps a year or >&

[Bug 588530] [NEW] Automounting not prevented with GParted in Ubuntu 10.04

2010-06-01 Thread Curtis Gedak
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gparted While running GParted using the Ubuntu 10.04 Live CD, automounting of partitions is not prevented. This can result in gparted failing to complete partition editing actions successfully. The root cause of the problem is that Ubuntu 10.04 now uses

[Bug 554582] Re: Gparted does not list dmraid devices

2010-06-01 Thread Curtis Gedak
Phillip Susi wrote: > On 6/1/2010 11:52 AM, Curtis Gedak wrote: >> My testing showed that libparted spent 33 seconds in libparted's >> ped_device_probe_all() when the BIOS was misconfigured. See >> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351753#c20 > > That s

[Bug 554582] Re: Gparted does not list dmraid devices

2010-05-17 Thread Curtis Gedak
Phillip, thank you for testing the patch and confirming that it does not fix the problem for Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. I think you might be on the right track with the parted-devel mailing list thread you started: "linux: use devicemapper task name instead of device node name" causes dmraid break

[Bug 532277] Re: Copying a huge NTFS partition (e.g., > 100 GB) never finishes

2010-03-08 Thread Curtis Gedak
GParted 0.5.2 has just been released. See http://gparted.sourceforge.net/news.php -- Copying a huge NTFS partition (e.g., > 100 GB) never finishes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532277 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 538682] Re: New HFS+ partition not labeled correctly in partition table

2010-03-18 Thread Curtis Gedak
This problem has been fixed in the upstream parted project source code repository. The relevant git commit can be found at the following link: http://git.debian.org/?p=parted/parted.git;a=commit;h=9ffd7eb93f6027a35ff854f7518947c91c086136 This patch is included in the parted-2.0 release. -- New

[Bug 538682] Re: New HFS+ partition not labeled correctly in partition table

2010-03-19 Thread Curtis Gedak
In comment #1, I meant to say parted-2.2 (not 2.0). Hence if Lucid has libparted 2.2, then both parted and gparted will properly set the MSDOS partition table type code for HFS/HFS+ file systems. Azrael3000, Regarding the "mac" type partition table, I suggest that if there is a problem that it

[Bug 538682] Re: New HFS+ partition not labeled correctly in partition table

2010-03-19 Thread Curtis Gedak
>From a quick look at the following link it would appear that Lucid now has parted-2.2. http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/parted E.g., Package: parted (2.2-1ubuntu3) -- New HFS+ partition not labeled correctly in partition table https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/538682 You received this bug notifi

[Bug 32479] Re: 'create msdos label' in partitioner unclear

2010-03-10 Thread Curtis Gedak
If I understand this problem correctly, it was resolved by the following two bug fixes: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422070 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579266 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #422070 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422070 ** Bug w

[Bug 377702] Re: gparted should not allow to create an extended partition on GPT disks

2010-03-10 Thread Curtis Gedak
This problem is fixed in GParted version 0.5.2. The relevant upstream bug report is: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=583906 -- gparted should not allow to create an extended partition on GPT disks https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/377702 You received this bug notification because you ar

[Bug 428133] Re: gparted brings up devicekit-disks authentication when scanning

2009-10-15 Thread Curtis Gedak
Martin, I can rework the logic so that if both dk-disks and hal-lock are available then both will be used. The challenge with the proposed method is that the --run "COMMAND $*" portion of hal-lock requires that the command plus arguments must be within quotes. Otherwise the arguments are not pas

[Bug 428133] Re: gparted brings up devicekit-disks authentication when scanning

2009-10-16 Thread Curtis Gedak
Martin, The logic for starting up the gparted executable has been changed to use both dk-disks and hal-lock if both are available. The relevant git repository commit can be viewed at the following link: http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gparted/commit/?id=d9b892a73f2f078ae6314c4925b438e43fe4392e -- gpa

[Bug 445490] Re: gparted reports no partitions but I am using the partition now

2010-01-09 Thread Curtis Gedak
GParted uses a library from the parted project (libparted) to manipulate partitions. If parted discovers a problem with the partition table, then GParted will similarly be unable to edit the partition table. Unfortunately, GParted versions up to and including 0.5.0 do not display the problem in t

[Bug 48412] Re: Disk detected as unallocated

2010-01-09 Thread Curtis Gedak
GParted uses a library from the parted project (libparted) to manipulate partitions. If parted discovers a problem with the partition table, then GParted will similarly be unable to edit the partition table. Unfortunately, GParted versions up to and including 0.5.0 do not display the problem in t

[Bug 153360] Re: gparted doesn't read partition table

2010-01-09 Thread Curtis Gedak
GParted uses a library from the parted project (libparted) to manipulate partitions. If parted discovers a problem with the partition table, then GParted will similarly be unable to edit the partition table. Unfortunately, GParted versions up to and including 0.5.0 do not display the problem in t

[Bug 230146] Re: gparted doesn't report corrupted partition error properly

2010-01-09 Thread Curtis Gedak
GParted uses a library from the parted project (libparted) to manipulate partitions. If parted discovers a problem with the partition table, then GParted will similarly be unable to edit the partition table. Unfortunately, GParted versions up to and including 0.5.0 do not display the problem in t

[Bug 356116] Re: gparted says that kernel is unable to re-read the partitiontables on /dev/md devices

2010-01-09 Thread Curtis Gedak
GParted version 0.5.0 adds support for Linux Software RAID. >From the screen shot in post #2, this appears to be a different problem that has cropped up with newer versions of parted (and the libparted library). Specifically when these newer versions of libparted are used with GParted, you are no

[Bug 1796504] Re: gparted does not see f2fs-tools installed (Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic)

2018-10-08 Thread Curtis Gedak
The behaviour seen in GParted is because GParted is unable to read the used/unused information from the F2FS file system. Hence it warns that some operations may be unavailable. This is due to limitations in the file system tools for F2FS. See also: https://gparted.org/features.php And note tha

[Bug 1762163] Re: [Kubuntu 18.04]Device notifier pretends it cannot mount usb device while actually mounting it

2020-02-17 Thread Curtis Gedak
This issue with mounting and displaying "Malformed URL" is still a problem with Kubuntu 18.04.4 LTS Bionic Beaver with all updates applied as of today (Feb 17, 2020). There is a confusing history of bug reports and patches for this issue, as follows: USB Drives Give Malformed URL From Device Noti

[Bug 1762163] Re: [Kubuntu 18.04]Device notifier pretends it cannot mount usb device while actually mounting it

2020-03-26 Thread Curtis Gedak
Thanks Claudio for confirming that my PPA with the upstream Solid patch fixes the issue. Thanks also YAFU for creating this bug report. I just noticed that you had also included a link to the upstream patch to the Solid package. When I tried to track down the cause there were many related bug re

[Bug 1758591] Re: gparted crashes in installed Lu 18.04

2018-04-23 Thread Curtis Gedak
'Sounds like the libgtkmm-2.4 shared library is missing. You might try reinstalling it with: sudo apt install --reinstall libgtkmm-2.4-1v5 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1758591 T

[Bug 1698630] Re: Gparted Start scans whole system, even i want format usb device

2017-06-28 Thread Curtis Gedak
Scanning for all devices on startup is a design decision dating back to the initial development of GParted. A work-around to scanning only the devices required is to pass these on the commmand line to gparted. You are free to submit a patch upstream [1] to alter this behaviour. [1] http://gparte

[Bug 1652282] Re: Xwayland not using XAUTHORITY, prevents root applications from connecting

2017-12-07 Thread Curtis Gedak
> And that's the problem here. When gparted is ported to gtk3, the > xhost workaround will stop working. When/if GParted is ported to gtk3, THEN the work around can be removed. In the mean time the xhost workaround enables people to continue using GParted. -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 1737248] Re: Do not use --enable-xhost-root

2017-12-08 Thread Curtis Gedak
I respectfully disagree with this decision. Fortunately there are other distros that permit their users to seamlessly use GParted with GNOME and Wayland [1]. [1]: Fedora GParted Package https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=988102 -- You received this bug notification because yo

[Bug 1762258] Re: Displayed Name is incorrect for bitlocker encrypted partitions

2018-04-09 Thread Curtis Gedak
What is the output from the following commands? sudo blkid sudo parted -l -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762258 Title: Displayed Name is incorrect for bitlocker encrypted p

[Bug 1762258] Re: Displayed Name is incorrect for bitlocker encrypted partitions

2018-04-10 Thread Curtis Gedak
I agree with the comments in the above linked upstream bug report. If the volume label is "MYDATA" and this can only be read after the bitlocker encryption password is entered then this is working as designed. Note that the libparted library read the GPT **partition name** as "Ba". This would be

[Bug 1762258] Re: Displayed Name is incorrect for bitlocker encrypted partitions

2018-04-10 Thread Curtis Gedak
The **partition name** is separate from the volume label. Each partition within the GUID Partition Table has a reserved entry for the **partition name**. See Partition Entries in the GPT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table#Partition_entries_(LBA_2-33) You can check with othe

[Bug 1754579] Re: gparted process hangs if you insert " to volume name

2018-03-13 Thread Curtis Gedak
This bug was fixed in the upstream GParted 0.30.0 release. For more details see: Correctly quote and escape arguments of external programs passed to execute_command() https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=787203 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #787203 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/sh

[Bug 1808421] Re: gparted produces unusual results when ZFS partitios exist

2018-12-13 Thread Curtis Gedak
>From the description it appears that at one time the whole disk was formatted as zfs and that those file system signatures remain. You can check what is going on with the following two commands: sudo blkid /dev/sda sudo wipefs --no-act /dev/sda To fix you will likely need to remove the ext

[Bug 1808421] Re: gparted produces unusual results when ZFS partitios exist

2018-12-13 Thread Curtis Gedak
Alternatively you may need a fixed version of blkid if blkid is reporting 2 contradictory signatures for the whole disk: For example: - TYPE="zfs_member" ZFS file system on the whole disk. - PTTYPE="gpt" GPT (GUID Partition table). -- You received this bug notification because you are a memb

[Bug 1808421] Re: gparted produces unusual results when ZFS partitios exist

2018-12-13 Thread Curtis Gedak
Yes, the issue you are experiencing looks similar. The next course of action is to "follow up with the authors of the util- linux package?" They should have a mailing list or something to track issues. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subsc

[Bug 1764483] Re: gparted gets stuck for a long time when external drive is connected

2018-04-21 Thread Curtis Gedak
Perhaps take a look at the GParted FAQ. Why does "Scanning all devices..." or "Searching /dev/sda partitions" take exceedingly long on some computers? https://gparted.org/faq.php#faq-11 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1780846] Re: After update 2018-07-08 menus and buttons are behaving badly

2018-08-21 Thread Curtis Gedak
Daniel, can you try rebooting your computer or otherwise restarting the xserver and then re-testing? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1780846 Title: After update 2018-07-08 menus and bu

[Bug 1780846] Re: After update 2018-07-08 menus and buttons are behaving badly

2018-08-22 Thread Curtis Gedak
Daniel, the KDE menu bar colour problem I experienced and noted in bug #1780664 also went away when I upgraded to the new xorg-server. I had to reboot and upgrade all my packages twice in order to get the latest. You might try checking to ensure that you have all the latest packages. -- You rec

[Bug 1780846] Re: After update 2018-07-08 menus and buttons are behaving badly

2018-08-22 Thread Curtis Gedak
@Timo, I am using Intel HD Graphics and no longer experience issues as described in this report. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1780846 Title: After update 2018-07-08 menus and button

[Bug 1777650] Re: gparted failes to start

2018-06-21 Thread Curtis Gedak
Or if that doesn't work use: sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgtkmm-2.4-1v5 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1777650 Title: gparted failes to start To manage notifications about

[Bug 1777650] Re: gparted failes to start

2018-06-21 Thread Curtis Gedak
It appears the library of installed packages might be out of sync with what is actually installed. Can you try re-installing the libgtkmm library with: sudo apt install --reinstall libgtkmm-2.4-1v5 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscri

[Bug 1777650] Re: gparted failes to start

2018-06-23 Thread Curtis Gedak
It appears that the command fixed the issue with lib*g*tkmm. Next it hits an issue with lib*a*tkmm, so the next thing to try is to reinstall that package. You might need to do this with several packages as the library of installed packages on your computer appears to be out-of-sync with the actua

[Bug 1777650] Re: gparted failes to start

2018-06-24 Thread Curtis Gedak
'Glad to hear you are up and running again. :-) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1777650 Title: gparted failes to start To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.laun

[Bug 1780664] Re: Recent libgl-mesa graphics update prevents drop down list menu appearing in apps like firefox three line/bar menu icon

2018-08-02 Thread Curtis Gedak
I tried using OpenGL and EGL for the compositor, but unfortunately EGL has issues. More specifically with EGL I experienced an inability to login due to SDDM login screen hangs. This is similar to the issue I experienced with XRender [1] which I noted earlier in this report. [1] https://askubunt

[Bug 1780685] Re: gParted uses invalid -Q and -v flags from mkntfs

2018-08-02 Thread Curtis Gedak
What version of the "ntfs-3g" package are you using? To learn which version use the following command (with sample output): $ dpkg -l | grep ntfs-3g ii libntfs-3g88 1:2017.3.23-2 amd64read/write NTFS driver for FUSE (runtime library) i

[Bug 1780685] Re: gParted uses invalid -Q and -v flags from mkntfs

2018-08-07 Thread Curtis Gedak
Jan: I agree. GParted should be and is designed to run using Free Software[1]. This is mentioned in the GParted mission statement [2]. [1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html [2] https://gparted.org/development.php#mission-statement If a check were to be added then in my opinion it wou

[Bug 1780685] Re: gParted uses invalid -Q and -v flags from mkntfs

2018-08-08 Thread Curtis Gedak
Thanks Robert for answering my questions. It does indeed appear that the proprietary software has replaced the mkntfs command and that is the reason the partitioning fails. Some options available to you are (A) to remove the proprietary software, or (B) use GParted by booting from live media cont

[Bug 1780664] Re: Recent libgl-mesa graphics update prevents drop down list menu appearing in apps like firefox three line/bar menu icon

2018-08-10 Thread Curtis Gedak
Hi Timo, Thank you for your perseverance to resolve this issue. I am at a writers conference for the next three days. My earliest opportunity to test will be on Monday, August 13th, 2018. I will plan to test xorg-server from xenial-proposed and let you know after I've completed testing. In the

[Bug 1780664] Re: Recent libgl-mesa graphics update prevents drop down list menu appearing in apps like firefox three line/bar menu icon

2018-08-13 Thread Curtis Gedak
release package then please let me know. Sincerely, Curtis Gedak ** Tags removed: verification-needed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1780664 Title: Recent libgl-mesa graphics update

[Bug 1780664] [NEW] Recent libgl-mesa graphics update prevents drop down list menu appearing in apps like firefox three line/bar menu icon

2018-07-08 Thread Curtis Gedak
Public bug reported: PROBLEM Recent libgl-mesa 18.0.5-0ubuntu0~16.04.1 graphics update prevents drop down list menu appearing in apps like firefox three line/bar menu icon. After recently applying updates, left clicking on some application menus and icons no longer displays a drop-down menu list

[Bug 1780664] Re: Recent libgl-mesa graphics update prevents drop down list menu appearing in apps like firefox three line/bar menu icon

2018-07-09 Thread Curtis Gedak
Thanks @Pascal for indicating that the drop down menu lists do appear by selecting XRender as the rendering engine. Unfortunately XRender has other issues. The reason I originally changed away from using the default settings is because then I had issues with screen tearing [1] and an inability to

[Bug 1780664] Re: Recent libgl-mesa graphics update prevents drop down list menu appearing in apps like firefox three line/bar menu icon

2018-07-09 Thread Curtis Gedak
To help others with reverting to a prior version of libgl1-mesa graphics drivers, I have provided the following download links. libgl1-mesa .deb packages (14 files) - Search for "Downloadable files" -- https://launchpad.net/ubunt

[Bug 1780664] Re: Recent libgl-mesa graphics update prevents drop down list menu appearing in apps like firefox three line/bar menu icon

2018-07-10 Thread Curtis Gedak
While waiting for a fix to this issue, I decided to put a *hold* on these packages so that they won't be upgraded. To place a hold on these packages using apt: sudo apt-mark hold \ libegl1-mesa \ libgbm1 \ libgl1-mesa-dri \ libgl1-mesa-glx \ libglapi-mesa \ libgles2-mes

[Bug 1780846] Re: After update 2018-07-08 menus and buttons are behaving badly

2018-07-11 Thread Curtis Gedak
Thanks @Patrick for the link between the bug reports. Bug #1780664 contains instructions on how to revert to earlier libgl-mesa package versions while we wait for a fix. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.lau

[Bug 1780846] Re: After update 2018-07-08 menus and buttons are behaving badly

2018-07-11 Thread Curtis Gedak
I was able to work-around this issue by rolling back only the *libgl- mesa* packages from version 18.0.5-0ubuntu0~16.04.1 to version 17.2.8-0ubuntu0~16.04.1. I did not need to revert the *libdrm* packages in order to work-around this issue. -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 1780664] Re: Recent libgl-mesa graphics update prevents drop down list menu appearing in apps like firefox three line/bar menu icon

2018-07-14 Thread Curtis Gedak
Thanks Timo for looking at this issue. Following is the output requested: $ apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-core: Installed: 2:1.18.4-0ubuntu0.7 Candidate: 2:1.18.4-0ubuntu0.7 Version table: *** 2:1.18.4-0ubuntu0.7 500 500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-

[Bug 1736601] Re: Port gparted to gtk3

2018-07-16 Thread Curtis Gedak
The upstream bug report is now on Gitlab. See: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gparted/issues/7 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1736601 Title: Port gparted to gtk3 To manage notifica

[Bug 1698630] Re: Gparted Start scans whole system, even i want format usb device

2017-06-18 Thread Curtis Gedak
GParted already supports scanning only the devices you pass to it. This is most easily done from a terminal window. For example if you wish to scan only /dev/sdf, you can use the following: sudo gparted /dev/sdf See the GParted Manual [1] for more information. [1] http://gparted.org/display-do

[Bug 1698630] Re: Gparted Start scans whole system, even i want format usb device

2017-06-19 Thread Curtis Gedak
Good point about the lack of a "--help" argument from the command line. There is a man page As for the scan on startup, that is a design decision dating back to the initial development of GParted. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscr

[Bug 1698630] Re: Gparted Start scans whole system, even i want format usb device

2017-06-20 Thread Curtis Gedak
You might create an icon on the desktop or in the menu system with the command line parameters that you desire to only access a USB drive when it is plugged in. For example if you have two internal hard disk drives (/dev/sda and /dev/sdb), then a newly inserted USB drive should receive device path

[Bug 1698630] Re: Gparted Start scans whole system, even i want format usb device

2017-06-22 Thread Curtis Gedak
@Phillip, scanning is performed to determine which devices are present, what partition tables these contain, what file systems are in the partitions, and other details such as volume labels, free space, UUID, etc. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, whic

[Bug 1720424] Re: gparted not working

2017-09-29 Thread Curtis Gedak
>From the messages it would appear that you are missing the libgtkmm-2.4 library. You might try re-installing it with: sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgtkmm-2.4-1v5 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.l

[Bug 1747211] Re: gparted won't display with multiple screens available

2018-02-06 Thread Curtis Gedak
The upstream GParted team added a work-around to version 0.30.0 to enable it to run seamlessly under Wayland. See https://gparted.org/news.php?item=214 Unfortunately the packager for Ubuntu decided to not use the --enable- xhost-root work-around. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gpa

[Bug 1726545] Re: Gparted not working in Wayland Ubuntu

2018-02-08 Thread Curtis Gedak
The upstream GParted team added a work-around to version 0.30.0 to enable it to run seamlessly under Wayland. See https://gparted.org/news.php?item=214 Unfortunately the packager for Ubuntu decided to not use the --enable- xhost-root work-around. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gpa

[Bug 1748989] Re: gparted does not start

2018-02-13 Thread Curtis Gedak
The upstream GParted team added a work-around to version 0.30.0 to enable it to run seamlessly under Wayland. See https://gparted.org/news.php?item=214 Unfortunately the packager for Ubuntu decided to not use the --enable- xhost-root work-around. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gpa

[Bug 1744372] Re: gparted does not start - Unit -.mount does not exist, proceeding anyway.

2018-01-19 Thread Curtis Gedak
The upstream GParted team added a work-around to version 0.30.0 to enable it to run seamlessly under Wayland. See https://gparted.org/news.php?item=214 Unfortunately the packager for Ubuntu decided to not use the --enable- xhost-root work-around. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gpa

[Bug 1744372] Re: gparted does not start - Unit -.mount does not exist, proceeding anyway.

2018-01-20 Thread Curtis Gedak
You might try petitioning the packager who made the decision. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gparted/+bug/1737248 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1744372 Title: gparted doe

[Bug 1744372] Re: gparted does not start - Unit -.mount does not exist, proceeding anyway.

2018-01-20 Thread Curtis Gedak
I see now that you have already done that. Perhaps if enough users express their displeasure with the decision then perhaps the packager will reconsider. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/

[Bug 1325708] Re: Error in `/usr/sbin/gpartedbin': malloc(): smallbin double linked list corrupted: 0x000000000107d210

2014-06-02 Thread Curtis Gedak
GParted uses the libparted library from the parted project to handle many of the partitioning tasks. Would you be able to provide the output from the following command? sudo parted /path-to-your-device unit s print Where: /path-to-your-device is something like /dev/sdb. -- You received this b

[Bug 1325708] Re: Error in `/usr/sbin/gpartedbin': malloc(): smallbin double linked list corrupted: 0x000000000107d210

2014-06-02 Thread Curtis Gedak
Bsed on the parted output, the entire USB device is formatted with a fat32 file system and there is no partition table on the device. GParted currently only works with partitions on partitioned devices. See: Doesn't properly support partitionless drives https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6

[Bug 1307201] Re: (gpartedbin:6851): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 54 was not found when attempting to remove it

2014-04-17 Thread Curtis Gedak
This problem does not seem to be limited to GParted. It also occurs for GNOME-Control-Center, and Banshee. See: GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID was not found when attempting to remove it - warning when leaving Network menu of g-c-c https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/

[Bug 1623969] Re: Cannot log in to kubuntu after update (Intel graphics + ksshaskpass)

2017-01-22 Thread Curtis Gedak
Recently I encountered this problem and discovered a solution. I posted my solution at: kubuntu 16.04 SDDM login screen hangs https://askubuntu.com/questions/765364/kubuntu-16-04-sddm-login-screen-hangs/874972#874972 For completeness sake, I will also repost the solution here. -- Recen

[Bug 1641104] Re: [Feature Request] exfat filesystem support

2017-01-05 Thread Curtis Gedak
Unless the exFAT licensing issue has changed, the position stated in comment number 14 of the upstream report remains. See: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=639760#c14 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https:/

[Bug 1726545] Re: Gparted not working in Wayland Ubuntu

2017-10-24 Thread Curtis Gedak
An interim fix is available in the upstream GParted 0.30.0 version. Bug 776437 - GParted fails to run as root under Wayland https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776437 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #776437 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776437 -- You received this

[Bug 1460784] Re: Application launcher places wine programs in Lost & Found after update to kubuntu 15.04

2016-05-10 Thread Curtis Gedak
The problem still exists on Kubuntu 16.04. With a fresh install of Kubuntu 16.04, I proceeded to install wine with: sudo apt-get install wine After this completed, I noticed in the Application Menu that all of the wine apps were listed under "Lost & Found" instead of "Wine" as they should have

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