Bug 499151

Summary: Unknown error creating new partition table
Product: [Applications] partitionmanager Reporter: thebudget72
Component: generalAssignee: Andrius Štikonas <andrius>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description thebudget72 2025-01-26 10:14:20 UTC 
SUMMARY

When creating a new partition table on an external device, I get the error

Create a new partition table (type: gpt) on ‘/dev/sda’ 
Job: Create new partition table on device ‘/dev/sda’ 
Command: sfdisk --wipe=always /dev/sda 
Create new partition table on device ‘/dev/sda’: Error
Create a new partition table (type: gpt) on ‘/dev/sda’: Error

without any details of what the error is

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Create new partition table on external device
2. 
3. 

OBSERVED RESULT

See above

EXPECTED RESULT

The partition table should be created

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
macOS: 
(available in the Info Center app, or by running `kinfo` in a terminal window)
Linux/KDE Plasma: Fedora 41
KDE Plasma Version: 
KDE Frameworks Version: 
Qt Version: 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Andrius Štikonas 2025-01-26 11:28:08 UTC 
Try to run that command manually from the terminal and see what is the error.