org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply

[Ameet Paranjape]

Binary package hint: usb-creator

On Lucid I'm trying to reformat a 8GB USB stick using usb-creator to put ubuntu-netboot-remix on it.

1. Run usb-creator-gtk
2. usb-creator shows /dev/sdb
3. I select /dev/sdb and click "Format"
4. I get a dialog with:

"org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken."

5. I close the dialog window
6. Click "Make Start-up disk"
7. The process completes just fine and I am able to boot off the device

The dialog message is ominous, but overall functionality is there.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: usb-creator-gtk 0.2.21
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-19.28-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Apr 9 14:11:40 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/usb-creator-gtk
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100406.1)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: usb-creator

[Evan (ev)]

Can you please attach the output of `udisks --dump` with the USB disk plugged in?

Is the Install button clickable when you select /dev/sdb? If you could take a screenshot of this, I'd very much appreciate it.

Thanks!

[Ameet Paranjape (ameetp)]

>Is the Install button clickable when you select /dev/sdb?

The "Make Startup Disk" button is available.

[komputes (komputes)]

Ameet, this was tested on Lucid while in development. Now that Lucid is released, do you still experience this problem when trying to create a usb startup disk?

[eris23 (jdkatz23)]

I have the problem in Maverick

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for usb-creator (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Lars (larsmans)]

Same error on 12.10. In addition, after I click away the dialog, udisks-daemon and udisks-helper-modify-partition start running in the background at 100% CPU each (multicore machine). When I kill these processes after a few minutes of activity, nothing has changed to my USB flash drive.

[Justin (justin-acklin)]

I am having the identical problem as Lars. Including the two runaway processes. Make startup disk is grayed out; it was available before I hit erase disk the first time, now it never is.

[Kalle Hyvönen (scorper)]

I have the same problem as Lars in 12.10. I do not seem to have any runaway processes though. usb-creator-gtk takes around 8% CPU time and says "erasing" on the erase button but nothing happens. When checking iotop nothing is accessing the USB-stick. "udisks --dump" is attached. I also get the DBus error mentioned in the original bug. I have tried updating everything and rebooting etc.