usb-creator-gtk crashed with SIGSEGV

[Cameron Smith]

The USB-Creator GUI seemed to go through most of the steps OK - at the end it popped up an authentication window requesting permission to install the bootloader on the USB. I entered my password and shortly after this the USB-Creator application crashed.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: usb-creator-gtk 0.2.40ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-21.32-generic 3.5.7.1
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-21-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu9
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Dec 27 20:13:43 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/usb-creator-gtk
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-01 (56 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120822.4)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/usb-creator-gtk
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fe8e39bfd00: movl $0xffffffff,0x4(%rdi)
 PC (0x7fe8e39bfd00) ok
 source "$0xffffffff" ok
 destination "0x4(%rdi)" (0x00000004) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: usb-creator
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3
Title: usb-creator-gtk crashed with SIGSEGV
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

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Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make this software better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #915626, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Cameron Smith (cameron-smith)]

Please note that the ISO I selected to be installed on the USB drive was a freshly downloaded ubuntu-12.10-desktop-i386.iso

[Cameron Smith (cameron-smith)]

I subsequently tried running the program as root via the following command:
gksudo usb-creator-gtk

However the result was essentially the same: the progress bar gets to 40%, starts installing the bootloader, shows a slidy side-to-side bar for about 2 minutes, then crashes without showing any detailed error message.