USB-Creator crashes or format the wrong USB device when trying to format

[Mysteroid]

Binary package hint: casper

(in Karmic, fr)
USB-Creator crashes or format the wrong USB device when trying to format.
The USB must be formatted before and not using USB-Creator.

[Aldian (aldian-gp)]

Hi, I don't know whether this bug was signaled for me, because I told about it on some diffusion list and someone told me the bug had already been opened. Some precisions about my case:

aldian@karmic-fr:~$ apt-cache policy usb-creator-gtk
usb-creator-gtk:
  Installé : 0.2.12
  Candidat : 0.2.12
 Table de version :
 *** 0.2.12 0
        500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
aldian@karmic:~$ uname -a
Linux jauntyCE 2.6.31-19-generic #56-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 28 01:26:53 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

In my case, the freeze is systematic when I click on the format button (three trys so far and in one case the crash was total). If only one usb device is connected, its partition table is erased, but non new partition is created. If several usb devices are connected, one of them is erased.

So first time I used it I had to use testdisk to recover my partition table. The others times, I only had one usb device connected, but I still had to use gparted to complete the task.

I think that from now on I will use gparted whenever I need to format an usb-device, and stop using the format button of the creator.

Regards

[David Tombs (dgtombs)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:
1. Does the bug also affect Ubuntu 10.04?
2. What specific steps should we take to recreate this bug? Be as detailed as possible, and please include screenshots.

Thanks in advance.

[Aldian (aldian-gp)]

Hi :). About your questions:

1. No the bug doesn't affect Ubuntu 10.04 (up to date). But it still affects
an up to date Ubuntu 9.10.

2. This is very simple : just insert an usb drive in the computer (and
remove every other), then launch usb-creator-gtk, select either the disk or
the only partition and click on "format". Then an error message about dbus
appears and the usb drive is in a state where all the partitions are gone,
but no new partition has been created. Just take a look at the attached
screenshots.

--
Cordialement,

Aldian

2010/6/17 David Tombs <email address hidden>

> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
> better. Please answer these questions:
> 1. Does the bug also affect Ubuntu 10.04?
> 2. What specific steps should we take to recreate this bug? Be as detailed
> as possible, and please include screenshots.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> ** Changed in: usb-creator (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
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> USB-Creator crashes or format the wrong USB device when trying to format
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> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: casper
>
> (in Karmic, fr)
> USB-Creator crashes or format the wrong USB device when trying to format.
> The USB must be formatted before and not using USB-Creator.
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[Aldian (aldian-gp)]

Hi :). About your questions:

1. No the bug doesn't affect Ubuntu 10.04 (up to date). But it still affects an up to date Ubuntu 9.10.

2. This is very simple : just insert an usb drive in the computer (and remove every other), then launch usb-creator-gtk, select either the disk or the only partition and click on "format". Then an error message about dbus appears and the usb drive is in a state where all the partitions are gone, but no new partition has been created. Just take a look at the attached screenshots.

before : http://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/10/07/27/39/001_be10.png
after : http://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/10/07/27/39/002_af10.png
testdisk : http://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/10/07/27/39/003_te10.png

[David Tombs (dgtombs)]

OK, if sounds like this is a duplicate of bug 458334. Thanks for the screenshots!