[Bug 1114545] Re: Startup Disk Creator fails when erasing disk

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

Can you try gnome-disks utility (Or just "Disks" in the unity dash) to format the drive?
If that fails as well, it's a bug in udisks package.
If that works fine, than it's a bug in usb-creator.

Interestingly sdb is shown as rotational media in the logs. And usb-
creator should be used to erase rotational media.

** Changed in: usb-creator (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  Startup Disk Creator fails when erasing disk

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

Bug description:
  I am trying to erase a disk with Startup Disk Creator. The processes
  udisks-daemon and udisks-helper-m(something) run for a long time. I
  tried stracing the last one, and saw lots of these:

  write(2, "Error: ", 7)                  = 7
  write(2, "Can't have a partition outside the disk!\n", 41) = 41
  write(2, "new_size=15927345152 but resulting size, 15926820864, smaller than requested", 76) = 76
  write(2, "\n", 1)                       = 1

  Then the processes disappeared, and I got a popup window:

  System program problem detected
  Do you want to report the problem now?

  I click that I want to report the problem, after which I have to enter my root password, and then I finally get the error:
  --------
  Sorry, the program "udisks-daemon" closed unexpectedly
  Your computer does not have enough free memory to automatically analyse the problem  and send a report to the developers.
  ---------

  I have 8GB of RAM on my laptop, and I'm not using it for anything else
  right now. This seems to be a major flaw with ubuntu-bug as well, I'm
  unable to report bugs because of bugs. It should always fall back to
  sending what it can.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: usb-creator-gtk 0.2.40ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-23.35-generic 3.5.7.2
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-23-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sun Feb  3 20:15:20 2013
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-04-12 (296 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: usb-creator
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-11-15 (80 days ago)

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