[Bug 1162152] Re: startup disk creator / formating usb drive not working

[2green]

Retested on 13.10 beta, problem stil exists.

On a side note... this app got even worse in 13.10, after formatting it
with partition magic I can't use it to write a iso to any stick I have.
This app has not been working for several ubuntu releases now. If its
not important enough to have, than remove it from the distro.

My suggestion is to remove this app and have unetbootin by default. With
an on time only code change unetbooting can be as easy. Besides a
working app this helps reducing the ammount of code maintanance (one
crappy app less).

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Title:
  startup disk creator / formating usb drive not working

Status in “udisks” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The format function in the 'Startup disk creator' does not work.

  Test Case:
  - open startup disk creator
  - Select disk to use (using a fat 32 formatted drive)
  - Erase disk

  Expected result:
  - Erased disk

  Current result:
  - After a long time more than 5 minutes an error message appears saying disk format failed

  Work around:
  - Format the drive using gparted.
  - use 'startup disk creator' to create a startup disk with this already formatted drive.

  Priority:
  This problem might be a high priority problem given bug #1 that we want more users for ubuntu and this problem makes it more difficult to install ubuntu using a usb drive. Especially when considering that quite a few computers don't have a optical drive any more.

  This Problem seems related to:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks/+bug/1059872

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