Comment 2 for bug 311470

Thank you so much for responding so quickly. I tried what you suggested
on both the hard drive and an sd card and gparted is able to load. When
it reads the device it is unable to determine what the device is or even
if it is partitioned (it reads unknown device and shows it as being all
unallocated space). I have never filed a bug report before so I am sorry
about it being a bit vague. If there is any more specific information I
can include please let me know. What I really want to do is add swap
space because dell did not configure any.

> Thanks for filing the bug report, but there isn't enough info to
> diagnose/fix your problem. A workaround (From a few minutes of googling)
> shows that you can skip the "Scanning devices" section by running gparted
> from the terminal with your desired device as the first argument, so
> something like:
> gparted /dev/sda
> May help you.
>
> ** Changed in: gparted (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> stalls at scanning devices on dell mini remix
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311470
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> Status in “gparted” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gparted
>
> When running gparted on the dell mini version of ubuntu 8.04 lts, the
> program stalls on "Scanning Devices" and will not proceed further. I am
> not aware of any workaround.
>