usb-creator only produces unusable disks

[Michael Reinsch]

Binary package hint: usb-creator

This is when creating a new USB start disk under Karmic, using ubuntu-9.10-rc-desktop-i386.iso as the source. I am using a 2GB usb memory stick.

I selected 250MB space for settings and docs. The process bar goes up to 71%. There it stops for some seconds and then usb-creator crashes with a segmentation fault:

usb-creator-gtk[18957]: segfault at 84 ip 00007f2655cfde64 sp 00007fffc49fa060 error 4 in libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0.1800.3[7f2655c91000+a7000]

The disk at that point is of course only partially done and unusable.

I'm not entirely sure, but it seems that this might be caused by the md5 check failing, as many files are somehow missing (compared to the md5sum.txt). The content on the disk:

ldlinux.sys
casper
casper/filesystem.manifest
casper/filesystem.manifest-desktop
casper/filesystem.squashfs
dists
install
isolinux
pics
pool
preseed
.disk
autorun.inf
md5sum.txt
README.diskdefines
wubi.exe

[Pasi (pasi-lehtimaki)]

I am getting a lot of different errors both on ubuntu and windows Vista when trying to use usb-creator to create bootable netbook ubuntu USB stick.
Sometimes it crashes with simple "segmentation fault" on console. Sometimes I get error box telling me that my device is not found (even though it is).
On Windows usb-creator doesn't allow me to add the ubuntu image to the image list. When I click the "other" button and select the image nothing happens. When I run the creator from mounted image the ubuntu iso is in the list but once I click "make bootable" I get "access denied" error box. This happens even when I run it as an admin.

It seems that the usb-creator is really broken.

[komputes (komputes)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain log. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem. When you get an error using usb-creator on ubuntu, can you please attach ~/.usbcreator.log to this bug. Thank you.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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