[Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

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[Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2012-11-16 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: gnome-desktop Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/412152 Title: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing To manage notifica

[Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2011-05-15 Thread Chauncellor
Hi, m1fcj. This bug report has been reported as fixed. If you are having problems you would do well to report a new bug (both in Launchpad and upstream at bugzilla.redhat.com. Thanks! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. htt

[Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2011-05-15 Thread m1fcj
Natty still reports the Eee 701 4GB SSD failing after a suspend & restore. The disk is healthy, the error is shown for attributes 32 & 56. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/412152 Title:

Re: [Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2010-09-16 Thread Jean Roberto Souza
The current release no longer tells me that my disk is failing. -- gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/412152 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing

[Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2010-09-16 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: gnome-desktop Status: Unknown => New ** Changed in: gnome-desktop Importance: Unknown => Medium -- gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/412152 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bug

[Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2010-04-20 Thread Papamatti
@mibo: I have the same issue with my eeePC 701 4G on karmic 9.10 unr and the beta2 of lucid 10.04 and confirm that after a suspend and resume the gnome-disk-utility reports that the solid state disk will fail soon and should replaced. The icon in the panel shows "DISK IS BEING USED OUTSIDE DESIGN P

[Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2010-03-03 Thread Stephane Chazelas
** Changed in: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released => Fix Committed ** Changed in: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/412152 You received this

[Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2010-02-12 Thread map-j
** Changed in: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released => Fix Committed ** Changed in: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/412152 You received this

[Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2009-12-08 Thread Alan Pope
** Changed in: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu) Assignee: Alan Pope (popey) => (unassigned) -- gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/412152 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubun

[Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2009-12-07 Thread CPO_Mendez
** Changed in: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu) Assignee: CPO_Mendez (cpo-mendez) => (unassigned) ** Changed in: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Alan Pope (popey) -- gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/412152 You

[Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2009-12-07 Thread CPO_Mendez
** Changed in: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => CPO_Mendez (cpo-mendez) -- gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/412152 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed t

[Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2009-09-23 Thread James Tait
Hurrah! I no longer get nagged at boot time, and selecting Disk Utility from the System menu the reallocated sector count now matches what the command line tools say. For me at least, this does indeed appear to be fixed. -- gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing https://bugs.

[Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2009-09-19 Thread Chris Coulson
This was fixed by the upload today - you will only get notified now if your disk is _really_ failing, and you can opt out of the notifications on a per-disk basis too: gnome-disk-utility (2.28.0-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low * New upstream release: - Bug 592006 - Untranslatable string const

[Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2009-09-11 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Alan, I have a drive here that generates the warning, but it does have some reallocated sectors, although far below the threshold. Same as the one of yours with 5 reallocated sectors. As I said to mac_v earlier today, I'll pull the code later this afternoon or evening and start digging at this t

[Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2009-09-11 Thread Alan Pope
** Attachment added: "Screenshot-1.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/31660419/Screenshot-1.png -- gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/412152 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2009-09-11 Thread Alan Pope
One has 5 reallocated sectors the other has one pending reallocation. Screenshots attached. ** Attachment added: "Screenshot.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/31659803/Screenshot.png -- gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/412152 You re

[Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2009-09-11 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Alan, Can you see what in the list is claimed as failing? If not, that's a problem in and of itself -- I hate "idiot light" reports. Tell the user WHAT is wrong, not just that something is wrong. As you note, It should not be the sectors, at least not from libatasmart4, given the presence of:

[Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2009-09-11 Thread Alan Pope
I'm using latest karmic updated as of a few minutes ago and the problem still occurs. Indeed its got worse, as now it nags me about a disk that doesn't even have _any_ reallocated sectors. So I am now being nagged about two disks (of the four in the machine). See screenshot. ** Attachment added:

[Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2009-09-11 Thread Noel J. Bergman
There is a patch to fix the bogus reports, and that we should already have that in Karmic. The patch is http://git.0pointer.de/?p=libatasmart.git;a=commitdiff;h=b7f3834654cb05f5a8aae6b2381d548f49d72987. I have verified that the fix IS in the current Karmic package. So is anyone STILL seeing this

Re: [Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2009-09-10 Thread gpk
Are you the MIT Halbert from '81? If so, hello! Dan Halbert wrote: > A more thorough discussion of this issue is in yet another Fedora bug: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498115. > > When I installed karmic, I too was falsely alarmed by palimpsest's > warning about a single realloc

Re: [Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2009-09-10 Thread gpk
The other answer is sudo aptitude remove gnome-disk-tools Jean Roberto Souza wrote: > Now this was a good answer. Thank you DjDarkman! > > On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 6:57 AM, mac_v wrote: > >> DjDarkman , >> The notification can be disabled from System> Preferences> Startup >> Applications> Disk N

[Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2009-09-09 Thread Dan Halbert
A more thorough discussion of this issue is in yet another Fedora bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498115. When I installed karmic, I too was falsely alarmed by palimpsest's warning about a single reallocated bad sector in a disk I've been using for years. I ran the manufacturer's

Re: [Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2009-09-08 Thread Jean Roberto Souza
Now this was a good answer. Thank you DjDarkman! On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 6:57 AM, mac_v wrote: > DjDarkman , > The notification can be disabled from System> Preferences> Startup > Applications> Disk Notifications. > > If you want to check the disk status you can check later from System> > Adminis

[Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2009-09-08 Thread mac_v
DjDarkman , The notification can be disabled from System> Preferences> Startup Applications> Disk Notifications. If you want to check the disk status you can check later from System> Administration> Disk Utility But that is not a solution , since this would probably prevent the notification whe

[Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2009-09-08 Thread DjDarkman
I don't think that this is helpful I don't understand what it's trying to say, so it's basically useless to me, but that's not my problem, my problem is that I don't know how can I easily disable it. This tool reported every drive to be defective, even the one that was only run for 30 days. The s

[Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2009-09-02 Thread Pedro Villavicencio
** Also affects: gnome-desktop via http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587459 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/412152 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2009-08-30 Thread Valeryan_24
Hello, I have the same observation : Palimpsest warns me about one drive which could be in pre-failure, but G-smart and smartmontools do not have same conclusion (although it is true there are bad sectors). I hope that level of warning could be more precisely defined. ** Attachment added: "GDU.p

[Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2009-08-29 Thread gpk
Actually, there's another paper, G. F. Hughes, J. F. Murray, K. Kreutz-Delgardo and C. Elkan, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, September 2002, "Improved Disk Drive Failure Warnings". http://dsp.ucsd.edu/~jfmurray/publications/Hughes2002.pdf It looks at an improved version of the current SMART t

[Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2009-08-29 Thread gpk
May I point out that if Palimpsest raises false positives, it will cost people real money? About $50 per false warning! It will cause some people to trash their computers. It will cause many people to spend hours trying to diagnose their disks.Many people will lose irreplaceable data in the

[Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2009-08-25 Thread elxiliath
My Ubuntu 9.10 install says that I have bad sectors, and that the S.M.A.R.T. system says my drive will fail soon. I used my HDD manufacturers tools to determine that there are no problems with my drive. -- gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bug

[Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2009-08-13 Thread Conn
Jean-Louis, Your disk has a bad sector that is waiting to be re-allocated. See the "Current Pending Sector Count". Should you be warned? Probably not. But you do have a bad sector. -- gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/412152 You received

[Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2009-08-13 Thread Jean-Louis Dupond
Here it does even weirder! Not a single bad sector, but it keeps warning me about 'bad sectors' ... ** Attachment added: "Schermafdruk.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30274824/Schermafdruk.png -- gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/4

[Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2009-08-13 Thread Alan Pope
Screenshot requested on irc by Chris Coulson. ** Attachment added: "Screenshot.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30270658/Screenshot.png -- gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/412152 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2009-08-13 Thread Sebastien Bacher
There is an upstream bug on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587459 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #587459 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587459 ** Changed in: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Triaged -- gnome-disk-utility nags me too much th

[Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2009-08-12 Thread Conn
"Pre-fail" is the type of attribute in SMART, not the status of your particular drive. When a pre-fail attribute rises unusually or reaches a threshold, it's a sign that the drive will die in a very short time period (as small as 24 hours). Contrast this to "old-age" attributes which can reach the

[Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2009-08-12 Thread mac_v
My disk has just 3 errors.. while my threshold is 50 ! If the utility is not smart enough to know when it is really an imminent failure, why does it label everything "Pre-fail" ! -- gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/412152 You received t

[Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2009-08-12 Thread Alan Pope
"If it were my disk" is an excuse any developer could use for not implementing any feature they wish. Fact is it's _not_ Davids disk, it's mine and as such I'd like control over when and whether I get nagged about it. In this situation it's software mirrored so if the disk fails later I frankly do

[Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2009-08-12 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: gnome-disk-utility (Fedora) Status: Unknown => Invalid -- gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/412152 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu

[Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2009-08-12 Thread Noel J. Bergman
According to the author (see the upstream bug report), this is not a bug: "Palimpsest [is] more picky than smartctl is - e.g. just a single bad sector will trigger this warning. [Your] disk has bad sectors and that's exactly why we report it as failing. It's supposed to work this way. If this was

[Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2009-08-12 Thread Conn
Patrice - while it's good to have the ability to dismiss chronic notification warnings (in the same way you can dismiss defective batteries warnings on laptops, for example), this is not the intention of the bug report. Alan's problem is that the notification that's displayed indicates drive failu

[Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2009-08-12 Thread Patrice Vetsel
Indeed. I confirm and set importance to medium. My disk have bad sectors. Ok. But we need to provide a way to tell palimpsest applet to stop reporting the same error again and again, every time I boot/login ! It's very annoying. ** Changed in: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided

[Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2009-08-11 Thread cariboo907
** Attachment added: "smartctl_short_test.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30202382/smartctl_short_test.txt -- gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/412152 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2009-08-11 Thread cariboo907
I have the same problem I've attached the results of running both smartctl and gsmartcontrol ** Attachment added: "gsmartcontrol_long_test.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30202378/gsmartcontrol_long_test.txt -- gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing https://bugs.launch

[Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2009-08-11 Thread CravingPine
1 sector here ** Changed in: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed ** Attachment added: "Screenshot.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30191748/Screenshot.png -- gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/412152 You recei

[Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

2009-08-11 Thread Alan Pope
** Attachment added: "gnome-disk-utility.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30191134/gnome-disk-utility.png ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30191138/Dependencies.txt -- gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing https://bugs.launchpad