[Bug 1160035] Re: Startup Disk Creator unable to format USB drive - Error modifying partition: helper exited with exit code 1: In part_change_partition

[Janne Savikko]

I've tried with three different USB sticks, couple of different
partition tables and several partition sizes. No luck.

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Title:
  Startup Disk Creator unable to format USB drive  -  Error modifying
  partition: helper exited with exit code 1: In part_change_partition

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

Bug description:
  After authenticating, Startup Disk Creator gave an error message:

  org.freedesktop.UDisks.Error.Failed: Error modifying partition: helper exited with exit code 1: In part_change_partition: device_file=/dev/sdb, start=1048576, new_start=1048576, new_size=2046820352, type=0x0c
  Entering MS-DOS parser (offset=0, size=2048729600)
  MSDOS_MAGIC found
  looking at part 0 (offset 1048576, size 2046820352, type 0x0b)
  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
  changed partition to start=1048576 size=2047046144
  committed to disk
  ugh, offset or size changed
  offset:     1048576
  size:       2046820352
  new_offset: 1048576
  new_size:   2047046144

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: usb-creator-gtk 0.2.47
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-13.23-generic 3.8.3
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-13-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon Mar 25 17:12:18 2013
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-02-17 (36 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha i386 (20130211)
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: usb-creator
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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