This bug must have been caused by something in the upgrade process from Ubuntu 9.10 to (beta) 10.04 . I installed 10.04 fresh and the volume monitor works.
** Changed in: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid -- Volume monitor crashes on assertion failure https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/569938 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-disk-utility in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs