[Bug 1156899] Re: usb-creator-gtk segfaults every time I try making a bootable USB key

[Jeff Lane]

also, this time around (usb-creator never seems to work quite right for
me) it always seems to crash at the point where it writes boot loader
data.

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Title:
  usb-creator-gtk segfaults every time I try making a bootable USB key

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

Bug description:
  The latest frustration:
  usb-creator-gtk segfaults every time I try making  a bootable 12.04 usb key.  I need to install and boot both desktop and server versions of Precise on my test machines in order to do my work, and usb-creator is a gate that is causing me to not be able to do that work.  Every time (I'm currently running Quantal, but the same types of issues happened when I was running Precise as well) I try creating a 12.04.1 or 12.04.2 bootable USB key, creator segfaults at some point, leaving me with a half-finished usb key that is not bootable, and sometimes not umountable, and a mounted ISO image in /tmp. 

  In some cases, I've tried over and over to get a working USB key, only
  to find that I end up with the same ISO mounted once for each attempt
  in /tmp.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: usb-creator-gtk 0.2.40ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-26.42-generic 3.5.7.6
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-26-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Mar 18 18:47:09 2013
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-03-15 (368 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120307)
  MarkForUpload: True
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: usb-creator
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2013-01-24 (53 days ago)

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