GParted running from hard drive gives errors

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Just installed gparted in order to understand what I have installed and where with a view to moving stuff around using a live gparted disk. Running the installed gparted for the first time I get:-

lastair@HP-Z640-2:~> gparted 
Unit \xe2\x97\x8f.service does not exist, proceeding anyway. 
Unit \xe2\x97\x8f.service does not exist, proceeding anyway. 
Unit \xe2\x97\x8f.service does not exist, proceeding anyway. 
Unit \xe2\x97\x8f.service does not exist, proceeding anyway. 
Unit \xe2\x97\x8f.service does not exist, proceeding anyway. 
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libparted : 3.2 
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alastair@HP-Z640-2:~>

I did proceed and I was able to see all the partitions as I wanted so no big problem but what is going on and is my machine configured incorrectly?

Here is what is installed:-

alastair@HP-Z640-2:/> sudo fdisk -l 
**Disk /dev/sda: 931.51 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors** 
Disk model: WD1003FBYX-23    
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes 
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes 
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes 
Disklabel type: gpt 
Disk identifier: 4F9C5802-67A2-4532-B2C3-C357A743A18A 

**Device**     **    Start** **      End** **  Sectors** **  Size** **Type** 
/dev/sda1       2048    206847    204800   100M EFI System 
/dev/sda2     206848    239615     32768    16M Microsoft reserved 
/dev/sda3     239616 499091892 498852277 237.9G Microsoft basic data 
/dev/sda4  499093504 500115455   1021952   499M Windows recovery environment 


**Disk /dev/sdb: 238.47 GiB, 256060514304 bytes, 500118192 sectors** 
Disk model: Samsung SSD 860  
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes 
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes 
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes 
Disklabel type: gpt 
Disk identifier: 4F9C5802-67A2-4532-B2C3-C357A743A18A 

**Device**     **    Start** **      End** **  Sectors** ** Size** **Type** 
/dev/sdb1       2048    206847    204800  100M EFI System 
/dev/sdb2     206848 105064447 104857600   50G Linux filesystem 
/dev/sdb3  105064448 495134719 390070272  186G Linux filesystem 
/dev/sdb4  495134720 500118158   4983439  2.4G Linux swap 
alastair@HP-Z640-2:/>

Never experienced this error before and too many options offered by Google!
Please could somebody explain.
Budge.

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For me, gparted has always resulted in what you experienced. It’s not important. At least I don’t think so. I would wait until someone else chimes in and confirms what I said.

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Hi
What version of gparted? It should be fixed in version 1.2.0… Unit \xe2\x97\x8f.service does not exist, proceeding anyway (#129) · Issues · GNOME / gparted · GitLab

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GParted works OK when running in graphical mode, doesn’t work via command prompt.
For command prompt use “parted”.
Or use KDE partitionmanager - it works in both ways.

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Not available for Leap 15.3.

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Hi
Grab a linked version of 1.4.0 Show home:Sauerland / gparted - openSUSE Build Service