[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#570940: gnome-disk-utility: Partition deletion fails on a 640GB disk

[Kjö Hansi Glaz]

Package: gnome-disk-utility
Version: 2.28.1-2
Severity: normal

Trying to delete the only big partition on a 640GB disk with
gnome-disk-utility, the following error message is displayed. However, it works
well with fdisk:

Error erasing: helper exited with exit code 1: In part_del_partition: device_file=/dev/sdb, offset=64512
Entering MS-DOS parser (offset=0, size=640135028736)
MSDOS_MAGIC found
looking at part 0 (offset 64512, size 640124126208, type 0x83)
new part entry
looking at part 1 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00)
new part entry
looking at part 2 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00)
new part entry
looking at part 3 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00)
new part entry
Exiting MS-DOS parser
MSDOS partition table detected
Warning: Device /dev/sdb has a logical sector size of 1024.  Not all parts of GNU Parted support this at the moment, and the working code is HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL.

got it
Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!
ped_disk_new() failed


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-pentiumm-preempt (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
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 gnome-disk-utility depends on:
ii  devicekit-disks         009-2            abstraction for enumerating block 
ii  libatasmart4            0.17-1           ATA S.M.A.R.T. reading and parsing
ii  libatk1.0-0             1.28.0-1         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                   2.10.2-2         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2               1.8.8-2          The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.2.20-2         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2        0.84-1           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1          2.8.0-2          generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6            2.3.11-1         FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgdu-gtk0             2.28.1-2         GTK+ standard dialog library for l
ii  libgdu0                 2.28.1-2         GObject based Disk Utility Library
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.22.4-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0       2.28.2-1         GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgtk2.0-0             2.18.6-1         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnautilus-extension1  2.28.4-1         libraries for nautilus components 
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify1- 0.4.5-1          sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  libpango1.0-0           1.26.2-1         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libunique-1.0-0         1.1.6-1          Library for writing single instanc
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

gnome-disk-utility recommends no packages.

gnome-disk-utility suggests no packages.

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