Bug 300692 - can't perform any operation
Summary: can't perform any operation
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: partitionmanager
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 1.0.3
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Andrius Štikonas
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2012-05-27 04:13 UTC by Rajinder Yadav
Modified: 2015-12-20 00:28 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Side by Side Screenshots (875.07 KB, image/png)
2015-02-14 18:02 UTC, blushonine@yahoo.com
Details
Old Software? Didn't even know until now. (645.69 KB, image/png)
2015-02-20 21:28 UTC, blushonine@yahoo.com
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Description Rajinder Yadav 2012-05-27 04:13:48 UTC
after i launch kde partition manager and enter my root password the app open up and then all partition operation are greyed out.

Before I use to do everything through gparted, however after I updated to KDE 12.04 gparted will not run. So I an stuck with paritions I want to put into use but can't!

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Volker Lanz 2012-06-06 07:03:27 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> after i launch kde partition manager and enter my root password the app open
> up and then all partition operation are greyed out.

Did you try performing an operation on partitions that were actually not in use by the system? I'm sure you know you cannot modify partitions that are currently mounted, so the operations on those partitions would indeed be greyed out.

If this is not the problem, can you provide any additional details like error output from KDE Partition Manager's Log Output pane?
Comment 2 Jekyll Wu 2012-11-06 01:47:21 UTC
wait for information requested in comment #1.
Comment 3 Rajinder Yadav 2012-11-06 03:19:08 UTC
hello, it been a long time since I found a work around by using gparted.

I've used a partition manager (gparted) many times before so I doubt it was a result of user error, however I am not totally ruling this out.

I remember when I tired to use kde partition manager, all the menu option were greyed out. I then install gparted on my running system and was able to complete the operations.

here is the setup I had, which might help you in reproducing the issues.

I had a new hard-drive which I recall having partition using gparted on an earlier system.
it had a small partition in use, while the remaining space on the drive un-partitioned.

I was trying to create a new partition on the unclaimed space on the drive with kde partition manager and it would not give me any options.

weather the drive has been in use (locked) or not doesn't matter, I was able to get things done with gparted and not kde partition manager due to all the menu options on it being incorrectly greyed out.

i hope this helps
Comment 4 voluntary assistant 2013-05-27 11:44:49 UTC
I confirm this bug on Kubuntu 12.04.02 64-bit
GpartEd (if run with kdesudo frontend, gparted-pkexec fails to start) and konsole-tools succeed, so I really suppose it's application-related.
Comment 5 blushonine@yahoo.com 2015-02-14 18:02:59 UTC
Created attachment 91077 [details]
Side by Side Screenshots
Comment 6 blushonine@yahoo.com 2015-02-14 18:04:07 UTC
Still Broken? Everyone just install GParted instead?
Comment 7 Christoph Feck 2015-02-15 11:08:04 UTC
> Still Broken?

We still need the answers to comment #1.
Comment 8 Andrius Štikonas 2015-02-15 11:23:07 UTC
(In reply to blushonine@yahoo.com from comment #5)
> Created attachment 91077 [details]
> Side by Side Screenshots

Amd please use newer partitionmanager! Version 1.0.3 is far too old and newer versions have many bug fixes. After all, you are not using GParted 0.4.7 either.
Comment 9 Rajinder Yadav 2015-02-15 20:23:46 UTC
I suspect the issue might have been with partitionmanager not being able to read gparted partition. However to tell someone not to use gparted and just use partitionmanager is not a solution usless you want to live in a KDE silo, and I don't!!!

Two main reason I can think of why this would be a problem.

1) Someone already used gparted to partition their drive and installed some flavour of Linux, they then decided to blow away the install, keep their partitions and install a KDE flavour. I am not going to blow away other partition with all my data just to install KDE. Not a Solution!!!

2) I've used SystemRescueCD in the past to backup my Linux images, and or create new partitions before installing my image. Again like #1, Not a Solution to use only KDE partitionmanager.

As a result of this I still get weird errors in Kubuntu where some of my partition and drive don't get automattically loaded. So I have to actually open Dolphin and under devices click on a drive or pratition to gain access to this.

The only real solution and possibly (hard one) is to fix KDE partitionmanager so it will coexist with gparted partition and work and modify them with out errors.
Comment 10 Andrius Štikonas 2015-02-15 23:16:45 UTC
KDE partitionmanager should work just fine with partitions created by gparted. I used gparted myself too.

But again, KDE partitionmanager 1.0.3 does not support GPT partition table, so if somebody used GPT in gparted, then it will not work with the old version of partitionmanager. But GPT works fine in new partitionmanager 1.1 or 1.2...

(In reply to ryadav from comment #9)
> I suspect the issue might have been with partitionmanager not being able to
> read gparted partition. However to tell someone not to use gparted and just
> use partitionmanager is not a solution usless you want to live in a KDE
> silo, and I don't!!!
> 
> Two main reason I can think of why this would be a problem.
> 
> 1) Someone already used gparted to partition their drive and installed some
> flavour of Linux, they then decided to blow away the install, keep their
> partitions and install a KDE flavour. I am not going to blow away other
> partition with all my data just to install KDE. Not a Solution!!!
> 
> 2) I've used SystemRescueCD in the past to backup my Linux images, and or
> create new partitions before installing my image. Again like #1, Not a
> Solution to use only KDE partitionmanager.
> 
> As a result of this I still get weird errors in Kubuntu where some of my
> partition and drive don't get automattically loaded. So I have to actually
> open Dolphin and under devices click on a drive or pratition to gain access
> to this.
> 
> The only real solution and possibly (hard one) is to fix KDE
> partitionmanager so it will coexist with gparted partition and work and
> modify them with out errors.
Comment 11 blushonine@yahoo.com 2015-02-20 21:28:57 UTC
Created attachment 91192 [details]
Old Software? Didn't even know until now.

(In reply to Andrius Štikonas from comment #8)
> (In reply to blushonine@yahoo.com from comment #5)
> > Created attachment 91077 [details]
> > Side by Side Screenshots
> 
> Amd please use newer partitionmanager! Version 1.0.3 is far too old and
> newer versions have many bug fixes. After all, you are not using GParted
> 0.4.7 either.

I'm just using the Partition Manager that came with Mint17.1 and 1.03 is what's available in Software Manager (and GParted is "up to date" according to SM as well as apt-get) . This is what people will see when they install a system. If people are installing a new system and it's loaded with old software, it doesn't reflect too well on the people who are managing the distros and software packages. Just sayin.

$ sudo apt-get install gparted
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
gparted is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libbit-vector-perl libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common libcarp-clan-perl
  libclass-accessor-perl libclass-data-inheritable-perl libcommon-sense-perl
  libcrypt-openssl-bignum-perl libcrypt-openssl-rsa-perl libdata-random-perl
  libdate-calc-perl libdigest-hmac-perl libfile-which-perl libgd-perl
  libgnome2-canvas-perl libgnome2-gconf-perl libgnome2-perl libgnome2-vfs-perl
  libgnome2-wnck-perl libgnomeui-0 libgnomeui-common libgtk2-imageview-perl
  libgtk2-unique-perl libgtkimageview0 libhttp-server-simple-perl libjson-perl
  libjson-xs-perl libmouse-perl libnet-dbus-perl libnet-dropbox-api-perl
  libnet-oauth-perl libpath-class-perl libproc-processtable-perl
  libproc-simple-perl libsort-naturally-perl libsub-name-perl libunique-1.0-0
  libwww-mechanize-perl libx11-protocol-perl libxml-libxml-perl
  libxml-namespacesupport-perl libxml-parser-perl libxml-sax-base-perl
  libxml-sax-perl libxml-simple-perl libxml-twig-perl perlmagick
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 34 not upgraded.
Comment 12 Andrius Štikonas 2015-02-20 21:42:03 UTC
(In reply to blushonine@yahoo.com from comment #11)
> Created attachment 91192 [details]
> Old Software? Didn't even know until now.
> 
> (In reply to Andrius Štikonas from comment #8)
> > (In reply to blushonine@yahoo.com from comment #5)
> > > Created attachment 91077 [details]
> > > Side by Side Screenshots
> > 
> > Amd please use newer partitionmanager! Version 1.0.3 is far too old and
> > newer versions have many bug fixes. After all, you are not using GParted
> > 0.4.7 either.
> 
> I'm just using the Partition Manager that came with Mint17.1 and 1.03 is
> what's available in Software Manager (and GParted is "up to date" according
> to SM as well as apt-get) . This is what people will see when they install a
> system. If people are installing a new system and it's loaded with old
> software, it doesn't reflect too well on the people who are managing the
> distros and software packages. Just sayin.
> 
> $ sudo apt-get install gparted
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree       
> Reading state information... Done
> gparted is already the newest version.
> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
> required:
>   libbit-vector-perl libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common libcarp-clan-perl
>   libclass-accessor-perl libclass-data-inheritable-perl libcommon-sense-perl
>   libcrypt-openssl-bignum-perl libcrypt-openssl-rsa-perl libdata-random-perl
>   libdate-calc-perl libdigest-hmac-perl libfile-which-perl libgd-perl
>   libgnome2-canvas-perl libgnome2-gconf-perl libgnome2-perl
> libgnome2-vfs-perl
>   libgnome2-wnck-perl libgnomeui-0 libgnomeui-common libgtk2-imageview-perl
>   libgtk2-unique-perl libgtkimageview0 libhttp-server-simple-perl
> libjson-perl
>   libjson-xs-perl libmouse-perl libnet-dbus-perl libnet-dropbox-api-perl
>   libnet-oauth-perl libpath-class-perl libproc-processtable-perl
>   libproc-simple-perl libsort-naturally-perl libsub-name-perl libunique-1.0-0
>   libwww-mechanize-perl libx11-protocol-perl libxml-libxml-perl
>   libxml-namespacesupport-perl libxml-parser-perl libxml-sax-base-perl
>   libxml-sax-perl libxml-simple-perl libxml-twig-perl perlmagick
> Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 34 not upgraded.

I know, outdated versions are unfortunate. Well, try reporting it in Linux Mint bugzilla... I guess they take software from Debian if they are not interested in packaging it themselves and Debian is  a bit conservative when it comes to new versions...

I joined partition manager project well after 1.0.3 was released, so I wouldn't really know whether that particular issue was fixed by later versions or not (most likely fixed).
Comment 13 Rajinder Yadav 2015-12-20 00:24:28 UTC
Hi it seems KDE Partition is working correctly on Kubuntu 15.10. I no longer see the issue I reported. Please close, thanks!
Comment 14 Andrius Štikonas 2015-12-20 00:28:17 UTC
Glad to hear the newer version works. Thanks for telling that.