[Bug 1126084] Re: Usb creator fails when trying to erase a usb stick

[Charis Kouzinopoulos]

This also happens with a second identical usb stick. Both drives both
were previously installed an image of Ubuntu 12.04.1 using usb-creator

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Title:
  Usb creator fails when trying to erase a usb stick

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

Bug description:
  When trying to erase a 16GB USB3.0 Lexar usb stick, Usb creator fails
  with the following message:

  org.freedesktop.UDisks.Error.Failed: Error modifying partition: helper exited with exit code 1: In part_change_partition: device_file=/dev/sdb, start=65536, new_start=65536, new_size=16022224896, type=0x0c
  Entering MS-DOS parser (offset=0, size=16022241280)
  MSDOS_MAGIC found
  looking at part 0 (offset 16384, size 16022224896, type 0x0c)
  new part entry
  looking at part 1 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00)
  new part entry
  looking at part 2 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00)
  new part entry
  looking at part 3 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00)
  new part entry
  Exiting MS-DOS parser
  MSDOS partition table detected
  containing partition table scheme = 0
  got it
  got disk
  got partition
  Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!
  new_size=16022224896 but resulting size, 1048576, smaller than requested
  Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!
  changed partition to start=16384 size=16022224896
  committed to disk
  ugh, offset or size changed
  offset:     65536
  size:       16022224896
  new_offset: 16384
  new_size:   16022224896

  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 i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Fri Feb 15 12:43:08 2013
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/usb-creator-gtk
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-09-26 (141 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Beta i386 (20120926)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: usb-creator
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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