org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply when erasing a pendrive

[Andreas Hasenack]

I fire up the usb startup disk creator, insert a pendrive. It's recognized. It doesn't have enough space.

I click "erase". It starts to do something, the LED on the pendrive blinks a few times and I see a spinning wheel on the "Erasing" button. After a while, a big error message pops up:
"""
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.
"""

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: usb-creator-gtk 0.2.40ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-18.29-generic 3.5.7
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-18-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Nov 9 09:45:28 2012
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-02-05 (277 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha i386 (20120201.2)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: usb-creator
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-29 (10 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[marco (nazgul17)]

Same problem here, using Kubuntu 14.04. Tested the usb disk creator by launching it from the command line. This is the output:

marco@marco-laptop:~$ sudo usb-creator-kde
[sudo] password for marco:
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-marco" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Bus::open: Can not get ibus-daemon's address.
IBusInputContext::createInputContext: no connection to ibus-daemon
Error: "/tmp/kde-marco" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Error: "/tmp/ksocket-marco" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Error: "/tmp/kde-marco" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
kdeinit4: Shutting down running client.
Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
Error: "/tmp/ksocket-marco" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Error: "/tmp/kde-marco" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-marco" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
kbuildsycoca4 running...
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-marco" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-marco" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-marco" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Object::connect: No such signal org::freedesktop::UPower::DeviceAdded(QDBusObjectPath)
Object::connect: No such signal org::freedesktop::UPower::DeviceRemoved(QDBusObjectPath)
"/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sdd1" lost interfaces: ("org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Filesystem")
"/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sdd1" has new interfaces: ("org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Filesystem")

On a side note, the drive I am trying to erase is completely free, but the "Make Startup Disk" button is disabled. I tried filling it with an empty fat32, ntfs or ext4 partition and I tried with no partitions at all, but the button is always disabled.

Hope this helps.