http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351753 On my Thinkpad T30, gparted takes several minutes to start. It seems to not like systems with no floppies, such as most laptops. It would be nice to have a patch for this before FC-6 is released. The gnome bugzilla entry mentions a patch in CVS, albeit later reverted...
Sorry for not commenting on this earlier, ve being a lot busy. Concerning the bug, can't you just disable floppy in your bios as stated in the gnome.org bugzilla you referred to. I'm wary of introducing a patch that has been reverted upstream (for a good reason). I have the patch already, and i'm still thinking weather to apply it or not.
I just had the same thing happen on a T41. I've never had a floppy drive.
BTW I was running the F7 i386 Live CD
I've earlier hoped upstream will provide a fix for this issue, but as that seems not to be forthcoming, I've applied the patch referred to in comment #1 (sorry Denis for sitting on it for so long). Package with the patch have already been built in rawhide, will follow it up with F7 and FC-6 updates.
thanks
gparted-0.3.3-11.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
gparted-0.3.3-11.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.