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gnome-disk-utility package

  1. Bug #1227440
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 1227440

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Adam Dingle (adam-yorba) wrote :

This is still broken in Trusty.

Nautilus is invoking gnome-disks like this:

gnome-disks --block-device /dev/sdb1 --format-device --xid 39846040

I believe the problem is actually in gnome-disks, not Nautilus. When I launch gnome-disks directly and attempt to format either a single partition of a USB stick or the whole drive, the format does nothing and I see an error message like this:

Error formatting disk
Error synchronizing after initial wipe: Timed out waiting for object (udisks-error-quark, 0)