Ubuntu
usb-creator package

  1. Bug #870180
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 870180

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote : Re: can't create non persistent usb key with "startup disk creator"

From the information in your bug report I'm guessing your are trying to create an USB stick of the following operating system - debian-6.0.2.1-amd64-netinst.iso. Is that correct?

The traceback indicates the following:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/usbcreator/install.py", line 143, in run
    self.install()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/usbcreator/install.py", line 581, in install
    self.mangle_syslinux()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/usbcreator/install.py", line 256, in mangle_syslinux
    target_os_ver = debian_support.Version(contents[1])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/debian/debian_support.py", line 172, in __init__
    super(AptPkgVersion, self).__init__(version)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/debian/debian_support.py", line 91, in __init__
    self.full_version = version
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/debian/debian_support.py", line 117, in __setattr__
    self._set_full_version(str(value))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/debian/debian_support.py", line 96, in _set_full_version
    raise ValueError("Invalid version string %r" % version)
ValueError: Invalid version string 'GNU/Linux'

Inspecting the usb-creator code it looks to me like it tries to read .disk/info on the ISO to determine the target OS and that 'GNU/Linux' was not an expected response. Could you add the full contents of ".disk/info" from the ISO? Thanks in advance.