Lack of verbose feedback: USB Startup Disk Creator does nothing when trying to format a disk
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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usb-creator (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: usb-creator
I wanted to create a USB Startup Disk. So I clicked "USB Startup Disk Creator" on the System -> Administration menu. I chose the ISO. My USB disk was plugged. The second list showed my disk, with a warning icon, and beneath the list it said "The device needs to be formatted for use.".
However, when I clicked "Format", nothing happened. I thought the problem was I didn't have gparted installed (and was about to submit this bug as a "papercut", asking if you could make it clearer that gparted had to be installed in order to format the disk). Then I installed gparted, and tried that button again, but nothing happened, so I think the bug is more important than I thought.
Let me know if you need any other detail. Thank you.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Oct 21 20:37:43 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: usb-creator 0.2.11
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: usb-creator
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
Changed in usb-creator (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
summary: |
- USB Startup Disk Creator does nothing when trying to format a disk + Lack of verbose feedback: USB Startup Disk Creator does nothing when + trying to format a disk |
I also have similar issues while booted off the 9.10 Beta Desktop CD (x86, on a Dell Inspiron E1505N) - 'Format' button does nothing, and the 'Make Startup Disk' button is greyed out/unclickable.