USB startup disk creator doen't work

[Juan Manuel Fraga]

Binary package hint: usb-creator

When I run it I select the ISO and the USB, it sends de message starting up, and it stays there.

When trying to stop the program, it doesn't allow me.

[Juan Manuel Fraga (juanmfraga)]

This is what I get in terminal

[14:38:29] new device:
{'capacity': dbus.UInt64(1010794496L), 'uuid': '5E80-F2C7', 'label': 'UBUNTU', 'free': 1010515968L, 'fstype': 'vfat', 'device': '/dev/sdb1', 'mountpoint': '/media/UBUNTU', 'udi': '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_5E80_F2C7'}
[14:38:29] adding: /dev/sdb1
[14:38:37] mounting /home/juanmfraga/Software/ubuntu/ubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386.iso
[14:38:37] updating dest_status as part of update_row_state
[14:38:54] Installing...
[14:38:54] Source CD: /home/juanmfraga/Software/ubuntu/ubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386.iso
[14:38:54] Destination disk: /dev/sdb1
[14:38:54] Persistence size: 201 MB
[14:38:54] Marking partition 1 as active.
[14:38:54] installing the bootloader to /dev/sdb1.
[14:38:54] Forcing shutdown of the install process.

[Evan (ev)]

Please install a newer version of usb-creator from my PPA (https://launchpad.net/~evand/+archive) and run it from a terminal window with the -t flag (`usb-creator -t`). Then please attach ~/.usb-creator.trace and ~/.usb-creator.log to this bug report when the application gets stuck on that screen.

Thanks

[Juan Manuel Fraga (juanmfraga)]

It generates a different error now:

-- Starting up at 10:43:54 --
[10:43:54] new device:
{'capacity': dbus.UInt64(1010794496L), 'uuid': '5E80-F2C7', 'label': 'UBUNTU', 'free': 1010515968L, 'fstype': 'vfat', 'device': '/dev/sdb1', 'mountpoint': '/media/UBUNTU', 'udi': '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_5E80_F2C7'}
[10:43:54] adding: /dev/sdb1
[10:44:11] mounting /home/juanmfraga/Software/ubuntu/ubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386.iso
[10:44:11] ['mount', '-t', 'iso9660', '-o', 'loop,ro', '/home/juanmfraga/Software/ubuntu/ubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386.iso', '/tmp/tmp80qree']
[10:44:12] updating dest_status as part of update_row_state
[10:44:12] ['umount', '/tmp/tmp80qree']
[10:44:12] ['rmdir', '/tmp/tmp80qree']
[10:44:17] Installing...
[10:44:17] Source CD: /home/juanmfraga/Software/ubuntu/ubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386.iso
[10:44:17] Destination disk: /dev/sdb1
[10:44:17] Persistence size: 134217728 MB
[10:44:18] Marking partition 1 as active.
[10:44:18] installing the bootloader to /dev/sdb.
[10:44:18] ['dd', 'if=/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin', u'of=/dev/sdb', 'bs=446', 'count=1', 'conv=sync']
[10:44:18] installing the bootloader to /dev/sdb1.
[10:44:18] ['syslinux', '/dev/sdb1']
[10:44:18] Forcing shutdown of the install process.
[10:44:18] Install failed: Error installing the bootloader.

[Trekman (starkillers)]

same happened on my notebook with xubuntu. I found out that my USB Stick was write protected. I needed to turn the switch on the stick to "not write protected" . Then it installed fine. Hope this helps ...;-)

[Vytas (vytas)]

Similar issue happens to me even with updated creator from your ppa.

vytas@vytas-laptop:~$ sudo usb-creator -t
[sudo] password for vytas:

-- Starting up at 21:58:35 --
[21:58:36] new device:
{'capacity': dbus.UInt64(8254389760L), 'uuid': '49EB-869A', 'label': '', 'free': 5373247488L, 'fstype': 'vfat', 'device': '/dev/sdb', 'mountpoint': '/media/disk', 'udi': '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_49EB_869A'}
[21:58:36] adding: /dev/sdb
[21:58:53] mounting /home/vytas/Desktop/ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso
[21:58:53] ['mount', '-t', 'iso9660', '-o', 'loop,ro', '/home/vytas/Desktop/ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso', '/tmp/tmpTkoAs0']
[21:58:53] updating dest_status as part of update_row_state
[21:58:53] ['umount', '/tmp/tmpTkoAs0']
[21:58:53] ['rmdir', '/tmp/tmpTkoAs0']
[21:59:11] Installing...
[21:59:11] Source CD: /home/vytas/Desktop/ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso
[21:59:11] Destination disk: /dev/sdb
[21:59:11] Persistence size: 0 MB
[21:59:12] Traceback (most recent call last):
[21:59:12] File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/usbcreator/gtk_frontend.py", line 476, in install
[21:59:12] self.backend.install_bootloader()
[21:59:12] File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/usbcreator/backend.py", line 457, in install_bootloader
[21:59:12] num = re.match('.*([0-9]+)$', tmp).groups()[0]
[21:59:12] AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'groups'

And it hangs up here.

[Vytas (vytas)]

I think I have managed to fix my problem at least.
I had entire flash disk volume /dev/sdb formatted (as FAT32) as a partition (probably not a very thing to do?) Now I've created a partition (eg /dev/sdb1) inside it, formatted it (as FAT32 again) and now usb-creator seems to be happy.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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