[Bug 533276] Re: Fails to enable "Make Startup Disk" button

[mark mitchell]

I have the same problem. Although I am new to python, I'll help out.

Here are some oddities that I've noticed in an hour of debugging with ddd/gdb:
1) A bunch of "QCoreApplication::exec: The event loop is already running" warnings, although not an infinite loop. Maybe not a problem.
2) "update_target" function in frontend.py never gets called, and I think that code is the only place where the ui_start_button gets enabled
3) My hard drive is listed in the window as /dev/sdb, but the flash is listed as /dev/sdc1. I would think the flash should be listed as /dev/sdc
4) Log file ended with 

  usb-creator 2011-07-14 19:22:14,791 (DEBUG) backend.py:139: id-type: swap
  usb-creator 2011-07-14 19:22:14,791 (DEBUG) backend.py:145: id-label: 
  usb-creator 2011-07-14 19:22:14,793 (DEBUG) backend.py:166: mount: 
  usb-creator 2011-07-14 19:22:28,220 (DEBUG) backend.py:22: Backend told to add: /home/mark/Downloads/openSUSE-
  11.4-KDE-LiveCD-i686.iso
  usb-creator 2011-07-14 19:22:28,221 (DEBUG) misc.py:130: ['isoinfo', '-J', '-i', u'/home/mark/Downloads/openSU
  SE-11.4-KDE-LiveCD-i686.iso', '-x', '/.disk/info']
  usb-creator 2011-07-14 19:22:37,602 (DEBUG) backend.py:190: cancel_install

If I get any encouragement, I'll keep at it.

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Title:
  Fails to enable "Make Startup Disk" button

Status in “usb-creator” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: usb-creator

  I have an 8 Gig thumb drive with one partition.  Looks like this:

  Disk /dev/sdg: 8009 MB, 8009023488 bytes
  247 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1021 cylinders
  Units = cylinders of 15314 * 512 = 7840768 bytes
  Disk identifier: 0x00000000

     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
  /dev/sdg1   *           1        1021     7817766    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)

  The drive mounts fine.  There are no files on the thumb drive.

  USB Creator sees both the raw drive, /dev/sdg, and the first
  partition, /dev/sdg1.  It indicates that /dev/sdg needs to be
  formatted and that /dev/sdg1 does not have enough room.  The image I
  have selected is:

  -rw-r--r-- 1 kpratt kpratt 859865088 2010-03-06 08:02 lucid-
  netbook-i386.iso

  I attempted to use the Format button action on both /dev/sdg and
  /dev/sdg1.  Neither action enables the "Make Startup Disk" button.
  And neither action results in any kind of error or success indication.

  I am unable to create a USB disk from the lucid-netbook-i386.iso
  image.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat Mar  6 08:38:30 2010
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Package: usb-creator-gtk 0.2.12
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.57-generic
  SourcePackage: usb-creator
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic x86_64

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