1 Topic by madaznz (edited by madaznz 2013-04-13 00:59:56)

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Topic: [SOLVED] "Applying pending operations" grey screen

Problem:
The "Applying pending operations" screen is completely grey along with the main "GParted" window.  This happened after an hour, up until then the progress meter was displaying correctly. I had left the machine to do its thing, the screen went to sleep during this time. Its when I woke the screen backup that it was greyed out.

Scenario:
* Laptop is a Windows 7 x64
* Booted Gparted Live from lastest download GParted Live CD as at 9th April 2013, i think 0.15.0
* 1 Physical Disk, with main OS partition (Was 100GB which had 5GB free space), and 2 logical partitions (These both had data on them, less than 33% full for each, cant remember exactly)
* I needed to increase the size of the main OS NTFS partition, so decreased the 2 logical partions (-50GB) and moved the unallocated space across to the main partition and extended that. All in 1 apply.  This came up estimating 1hr.
* No Backup (Dooh!)
* Im a windows user (Software Developer) with 0.001% knowledge of linux commands
* Laptop has no HDD activity indicator, and cant hear any disk activity.
* Has been running now for over 34 hours.

Question:
* How can I tell if it is finished?
* Is there any disk io activity commands?
* Can I Restart?
* Is the grey screen actually Ok to close? Can I force a screen repaint?

Here are some outputs from the terminal. (These are all retyped as posting from another machine

top (screen output, gparted is at the top of the list)

PID    USER  PR    NI   VIRT   RES    SHR   S   %CPU   %MEM       TIME+   COMMAND
2908 root     20   0     119m 34m   14m  R   99.2     1.2         3951:04   gpartedbin


sudo parted print (output)

Model: ATA ST9750420AS (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 750GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512/4096B
Partition Table: msdos

Number  Start       End         Size        Type        File system      Flags
1           32.3kB    107MB    107MB    primary   fat16               diag
2           107MB    15.8GB   15.7GB   primary    ntfs                 boot
3           15.8GB   147GB    131GB    primary    ntfs
4           147GB    750GB    603GB    extended 
5           147GB    357GB    210GB    logical      ntfs
6           357GB    750GB    394GB    logical      ntfs

2 Reply by gedakc

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Re: [SOLVED] "Applying pending operations" grey screen

Based on your description it sounds like GParted is not in a happy state.

You might try listing to see if there are any ntfs commands still running with the following command:

ps -ef | grep -i ntfs

If there are no commands listed as running, and since you do not see any disk activity, then the only option might be to restart your computer.

Unfortunately we do not know at which step GParted hung. ;-(

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Re: [SOLVED] "Applying pending operations" grey screen

The response was;

ps -ef | grep -i ntfs
user    3671  3664  0 08:13 pts/o    00:00:00 grep -i ntfs

Which I guessed meant there was no ntfs processes.

I restarted and Windows ran chkdsk automatically and recovered all broken links and everything started up sucessfully.

The disk partitions were still the same size as before my attempt to resize/move partitions.

Thanks for your help @gedakc

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Re: [SOLVED] "Applying pending operations" grey screen

Thank you madaznz for reporting back with your results.

This is one of three crash/hang problems reported with GParted 0.15.0.  As such we have added a warning to our GParted web site download page and news page while we investigate the problem further.