[SOLVED] gparted hangs when scanning devices

[xr200]

I have a desktop with 2 SCSI hard drives and one SATA.   I just started gparted, entered my root password, and
gparted starts "Scanning all Devices", and it just hangs: it scans forever.   I tried opening a terminal, and providing
and individual drive as an argument as an argument (gparted /dev/sda) and I got the same problem.   I then
tried running gparted on my laptop (just 1 drive) and it worked fine.

Synaptic says PCLOS is using libparted version 2.4-2.   Back on the desktop, I booted up a systemrescue 3.0
CD, which includes libparted version 3.1.    Running from the systemrescue CD, gparted started up and ran
fine for me.

Is anyone else having a problem running gparted?   Should I submit a package request for an updated version
of libgparted?   Any other suggestions?

xr200

[Yankee]

Look in Software-Broken Packages...

No concrete solution has been found as of yet for
this rare problem.

[gseaman]

I sent gparted 0.14.0 to Neal's dropbox. After testing, it should arrive in the repos. I have no idea if it will help with this problem, but it is worth a try.

Galen

[Yankee]

Curios again.

With everything mounted...

what does "df -T -BM"

look like run from terminal ?

Post legible output then.

thx.

FF

[xr200]

Filesystem    Type   1M-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda7     ext4      14595M     5635M     8228M  41% /
/dev/sda6     ext4      97503M    43243M    49378M  47% /DOWNLOAD
/dev/sda8     ext4      19470M     9001M    10469M  47% /home
none         tmpfs       1009M       93M      917M  10% /tmp

I have a lot of other partitions, but these are the only one mounted when
I run gparted.

I posted what I've learned today on the broken-packages thread.   

xr200

[Xenaflux]

maybe you find a tidbit of info here:
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,106781.0.html

and maybe not .

[JALU]

After full update today -  I found "gparted starts "Scanning all Devices", and it just hangs: it scans forever."
I noticed blkid stalls (disk sleep), but if I kill blkid (requires root password) then gparted loads!
Cages.

[xr200]

Read this:

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,110055.msg942609.html#msg942609

and see if it helps.   In short, at least a few of us had floppy drives enabled in our BIOS, but
didn't have a floppy drive.   The older kernel treats this condition than the (more forgiving)
older kernel.

Good luck.

xr200

[JALU]

xr200,
Indeed it was the floppy BIOS setting causing the problem.
Many thanks for your help.
Cages.