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devicekit-disks package

  1. Bug #419663
  2. Comment #42

Comment 42 for bug 419663

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In , Zeuthen (zeuthen) wrote :

(In reply to comment #5)
> FWIW, I think there's a bug in
> libatasmart - I often get this error
>
> Error retrieving ATA SMART data: helper failed with exit
> code 1: Failed to read smart data for /dev/sda: No such file
> or directory
>
> when refreshing the SMART data from Palimpsest. Funny enough I can't reproduce
> when doing 'skdump /dev/sda' from the command line. I'll try to track this down
> when I find some free cycles.

Just FYI, I tracked this down - see bug 25543 for a patch that fixes this.