Ubuntu
usb-creator package

  1. Bug #777957
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 777957

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Damiön la Bagh (kat-amsterdam) wrote :

This is clearly an authorization problem.

In order to debug
I started the program first with:

Running from the Ubuntu System menu.

What happens is I get 3 policy windows.
1 for starting the app
1 for mounting the usb disk
1 for writing the bootloader
then it fails.

so I tried from the comand line using:
usb-creator-gtk -s

This resulted in a pop up box saying installation of the bootloader failed, after this popup box a policy (see screenshot) window popped up asking for my password after the fact. By then it was too late, the installer had stopped.

then I tried with:
gksu usb-creator-gtk -s

This command made a successful disk.

So the issue I suspect is that the program is asking for authorization to late in the process.