USB Startup Disk Creator does not work in Karmic; usb-creator-gtk crashed with NotImplementedError in install()

[Jake Marsh]

Binary package hint: usb-creator

hangs on starting up. See brief activity on the usb stick, then crash report from Karmic.
Got package from "standard" daily upgrade.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep 1 12:57:22 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/usb-creator-gtk
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia
Package: usb-creator-gtk 0.2.4
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/usb-creator-gtk
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-9.29-generic
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/usb-creator-gtk']
SourcePackage: usb-creator
Title: usb-creator-gtk crashed with NotImplementedError in install()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-9-generic x86_64
UserGroups:

[Paul Larson (pwlars)]

At least for me, when I tried to run usb-creator and have it actually write the image, it popped up a new window with a status bar that never went anywere. The traceback appears to have occurred when I told it to create the image. I had to manually close the window after waiting plenty long, with no feedback about any progress being made.

[komputes (komputes)]

What Paul describes seems to go along with what I experienced. I have also noticed the following concerning usb-creator in karmic:

- usb-creator does not recognize an unformatted usb disk.
- When browsing for an image the cancel button does not work.
- User must select the already selected usb device in the "Device to use" section.

These should be quick issues to patch up when fixing usb-creator before the karmic release.