The latest frustration:
usb-creator-gtk segfaults every time I try making a bootable 12.04 usb key. I need to install and boot both desktop and server versions of Precise on my test machines in order to do my work, and usb-creator is a gate that is causing me to not be able to do that work. Every time (I'm currently running Quantal, but the same types of issues happened when I was running Precise as well) I try creating a 12.04.1 or 12.04.2 bootable USB key, creator segfaults at some point, leaving me with a half-finished usb key that is not bootable, and sometimes not umountable, and a mounted ISO image in /tmp.
In some cases, I've tried over and over to get a working USB key, only to find that I end up with the same ISO mounted once for each attempt in /tmp.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: usb-creator-gtk 0.2.40ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-26.42-generic 3.5.7.6
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-26-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Mar 18 18:47:09 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-03-15 (368 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120307)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: usb-creator
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2013-01-24 (53 days ago)
also, this time around (usb-creator never seems to work quite right for me) it always seems to crash at the point where it writes boot loader data.