Startup Disk Creator fails most of the times, in a number of ways; completely unreliable
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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usb-creator (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Creating a bootable disk with Startup Disk Creator is a hell.
It will only succees approximately 20-30% of the times, and when it fails, it usually does after making you waste tens of minutes.
Any of the following will randomly happen (you can burn the same image on the same device several times, and you'll probably experience a a different one of these outcomes each time):
A - it works just fine
B - it gets "stuck" somewhere (usually after 50%) at "copying files": the estimated time disappears, the progress bar stops progressing, and you are left waiting forever. Even hitting "Cancel" it will hang and never close
C - After copying all files it prompts for password and then it fails to install the bootloader (the error message says something like "failed to install bootloader", withot any more specific information)
D - everything seems to complete succesfully, but when you try to boot the disk, it won't boot (see #1243387)
The worst thing of all this is that it is completely random and you usally have to waste 20 minutes waiting for it to miserably fail, and then try again.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: usb-creator-gtk 0.2.47.1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-31-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.5
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Oct 26 15:50:39 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-11 (14 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: usb-creator
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
I strongly suspect what actually happens in case (B) is that it fails to prompt for the administrator password, so it waits forever as if it was waiting for you to insert the password to gain root privileges.
This is just a guess, though (based on the fact that when everything works fine, you usally get the password prompt when "copying files" is apparently still midway in its progress)