usb-creator crashed with OSError in _execvpe()

[Jonathan Jesse]

Binary package hint: usb-creator

Trying to run usb-creator in Kubuntu Intrepid and keep on getting crash

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/usb-creator
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: usb-creator 0.1.9
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/usb-creator
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_US
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/usb-creator']
SourcePackage: usb-creator
Title: usb-creator crashed with OSError in _execvpe()
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Jonathan Jesse (jjesse)]

I wonder if this is because I'm missing some gtk libraries or something due to it being done on Kubuntu?

Let me know what I can do to help out

JOnathan

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

usb-creator currently requires gksu to escalate privileges. (This is a bug.)

[avallee (avallee-hotmail)]

Anyone have any idea how long this USB KEy install bug will be fixed inorder to install and run a live USB install of 8.10 ?

[lakiu (lakiu-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

i wonder too.
i have the same problem in karmic.

laki@lakiu:~$ sudo usb-creator-gtk
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/usbcreator/backends/base/backend.py", line 117, in update_free
    changed = self._update_free(k)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/usbcreator/backends/base/backend.py", line 134, in _update_free
    target['free'] = fs_size(target['mountpoint'])[1]
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/usbcreator/misc.py", line 111, in fs_size
    stat = os.statvfs(device)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/media/629B-3A1B'

I tried running it with gksu also, all the same.