[Karmic] usb-creator cannot format usb stick

[Martin Gamache]

Binary package hint: usb-creator

When trying to format a USB stick in order to use it as a USB start disk, the USB stick blinks a while, then nothing happens. Apparently, usb-creator goes as far as deleting the previous partition, but nothing beyond that.

USB creator is able to create a USB disk on an already formatted usb stick, though.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 20 23:16:23 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia
Package: usb-creator-gtk 0.2.11
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: usb-creator
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64

[komputes (komputes)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Can you please fully update your system, reproduce the issue, then upload ~/.usbcreator.log to the bug. Thank you in advance.

[Martin Gamache (martin-gamache)]

I tested it again on my updated Desktop (instead of the laptop, on which I first observed this bug).

This is what happened :

- When trying to format an already formatted USB stick, nothing happens. Sometimes, I get the message :

"DBus error org.gtk.Private.RemoteVolumeMonitor.NotFound: The given volume was not found"

And then the drive partition is no longer recognized.

- It seems to be working when you insert an unformatted USB stick, though.

I'm not sure it's a big deal, since most users will have a preformated USB stick and won't want to format it.

See attachments for details.

[komputes (komputes)]

You are correct Martin, it works anyway, but the error is always appears. This has been previously reported in Bug #458334