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[Pedro Villavicencio <pedro@xxxxxxxxxx>]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need
to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments.
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** Changed in: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Expired

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Title:
  error while creating logical partition

Status in “gnome-disk-utility” package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gnome-disk-utility

  Running Maverick release candidate, with all the updates applied since
  final release (which happened two weeks ago).

  Ran palimpsest to add partitions to an empty SATA drive, in
  preparation for from-scratch installation of Maverick final.

  
  To reproduce:

  Start with empty 500GB drive.

  Add three empty primary partitions:  1GB, 189GB, 20GB.  Then add an
  extended partition, using all remaining space.

  Add one empty 20GB logical partition within the extended.

  
  Error reported:

  Error creating partition

  An error occurred while performing an operation on "500 GB Hard Disk"
  (ATA Hitachi HTS545050B9A300):  The operation failed

  Details:

  Error creating partition: helper exited with exit code 1: In part_add_partition: device_file=/dev/sde, start=210007848960, size=20000000000, type=0x83
  Entering MS-DOS parser (offset=0, size=500107862016)
  MSDOS_MAGIC found
  looking at part 0 (offset 32256, size 1003451904, type 0x83)
  new part entry
  looking at part 1 (offset 1003484160, size 189000483840, type 0x83)
  new part entry
  looking at part 2 (offset 190003968000, size 20003880960, type 0x83)
  new part entry
  looking at part 3 (offset 210007848960, size 290097400320, type 0x05)
  Entering MS-DOS extended parser (offset=210007848960, size=290097400320)
  readfrom = 210007848960
  MSDOS_MAGIC found
  Exiting MS-DOS extended parser
  Exiting MS-DOS parser
  MSDOS partition table detected
  containing partition table scheme = 1
  got it
  got disk
  new partition
  added partition start=210007881216 size=20003848704
  committed to disk
  Error doing BLKPG ioctl with BLKPG_ADD_PARTITION for partition 5 of size 210007881216 at offset 20003848704 on /dev/sde: Device or resource busy


  ....Note that I also tried this with a different 500GB drive, made by
  a different company, and got the same result.

  I see that there are other bugs filed against Lucid that seem to
  afflict 500GB drives but not other commonly used sizes.  I was under
  the impression that these bugs had been fixed by the time Maverick
  release candidate appeared, but perhaps all of them weren't, or
  perhaps this is unrelated.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: gnome-disk-utility 2.30.1-2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic-pae 2.6.35.4
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic-pae i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sun Oct 24 13:19:47 2010
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/palimpsest
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release Candidate i386 (20100928)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility
  XsessionErrors:
   (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1756): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
   (nautilus:1751): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_free: assertion `value != NULL' failed

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