Comment 0 for bug 1275193

I was trying to create a bootable usb stick with usb-creator. I clicked "format disk".

(What you expected to happen)

I expect this utilty to wipe my usb stick so that the iso can be installed onto it.

(What happened instead)

It said something like "dbus did not send a reply", and the system was frozen. I got into the tty and ran top there, finding that udisks-daemon is hogging both cpu and memory, and another process with an incomplete name "udisks-helper-m"(I think it is "udisks-helper-mkfs") hogging only cpu.

Output from top

4343 root 20 0 8391m 3.1g 460 R 99.9 81.3 7:41.24 udisks-daemon
8593 root 20 0 20060 504 408 R 99.9 0.0 7:41.65 udisks-helper-m

I have a dell inspiron 3421, which came with a ubuntu. I upgraded it to 13.10. I have udisks 1.0.4-8ubuntu1, usb-creator-gtk 0.2.50.1, in case these are useful

(PS My English is not very good. Edit my post if you wish.)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: udisks 1.0.4-8ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-15.23-generic 3.11.10
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
Architecture: amd64
CustomUdevRuleFiles: 60-vboxdrv.rules
Date: Sat Feb 1 14:17:39 2014
DistributionChannelDescriptor:
 # This is a distribution channel descriptor
 # For more information see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributionChannelDescriptor
 canonical-oem-somerville-precise-amd64-20120703-2
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-11-26 (67 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise" - Build amd64 LIVE Binary 20120703-15:08
MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 3421
MarkForUpload: True
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.11.0-15-generic root=UUID=fc929401-c420-44fa-a5e0-f0c74422ac08 ro quiet splash init=/sbin/e4rat-preload vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: udisks
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2014-01-29 (2 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 09/09/2013
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A08
dmi.board.name: 0D94X7
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A08
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: Not Specified
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA08:bd09/09/2013:svnDellInc.:pnInspiron3421:pvrNotSpecified:rvnDellInc.:rn0D94X7:rvrA08:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrNotSpecified:
dmi.product.name: Inspiron 3421
dmi.product.version: Not Specified
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.