[Bug 1497445] Re: Unable to create any bootable USB stick in Trusty

[Jeff Lane]

Ok, that's just odd and doesn't make much sense to me, but yes, after
rebooting, I am able now to create USB sticks from both 14.04.3 and
Wily Daily using 0.2.56.3ubuntu0.1.

I really would not have expected to reboot for that, to be honest...
then again, I'm quite old school and the idea of rebooting a linux
machine at all is something I seldom do.

I remember the days of having up to a full year of uptime... heh...

On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 9:37 AM, Marc Deslauriers
<marc.deslauriers at canonical.com> wrote:
> The version in trusty has no trace of the syslinux_var code. I suspect
> you downgraded without rebooting and the usb-creator-helper dbus service
> was still running the broken version from trusty-proposed.
>
> Could you please try after installing the _current_ version from trusty
> (0.2.56.3ubuntu0.1) and rebooting?
>
> ** Changed in: usb-creator (Ubuntu)
>        Status: New => Incomplete
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> Title:
>   Unable to create any bootable USB stick in Trusty
>
> Status in usb-creator package in Ubuntu:
>   Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
>   I am completely unable to create a Vivid USB stick using usb-creator-
>   gtk.
>
>   I just downloaded the most recent 15.04 amd64 iso from
>   releases.ubuntu.com and attempted three times to build a bootable USB
>   stick with usb-creator-gtk.
>
>   This failed both times with an error box stating that USB creator was
>   unable to write boot loader.
>
>   I used a vivid image, a known working 16GB USB stick (I've used this
>   stick successfully many times thanks to unetbootin), no persistence.
>
>   First, it took for ever and it seemed to hang at 96% for a long time,
>   then 99% before prompting me a second time for a root password.  Then
>   as soon as I entered the password, the error appeared.  It simply says
>   "Failed to install the bootloader" and has a button that says "Quit".
>
>   Unfortunately, this is all I can tell you since usb-creator-gtk lacks
>   any sort of debug output option and I can't find where it writes any
>   log files at all.
>
>   ProblemType: Bug
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
>   Package: usb-creator-gtk 0.2.56.3ubuntu0.2
>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-62.101-generic 3.13.11-ckt24
>   Uname: Linux 3.13.0-62-generic x86_64
>   NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
>   ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.11
>   Architecture: amd64
>   CurrentDesktop: Unity
>   Date: Fri Sep 18 15:57:43 2015
>   InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-03-15 (1282 days ago)
>   InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120307)
>   SourcePackage: usb-creator
>   UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-20 (516 days ago)
>
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Title:
  Unable to create any bootable USB stick in Trusty

Status in usb-creator package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I am completely unable to create a Vivid USB stick using usb-creator-
  gtk.

  I just downloaded the most recent 15.04 amd64 iso from
  releases.ubuntu.com and attempted three times to build a bootable USB
  stick with usb-creator-gtk.

  This failed both times with an error box stating that USB creator was
  unable to write boot loader.

  I used a vivid image, a known working 16GB USB stick (I've used this
  stick successfully many times thanks to unetbootin), no persistence.

  First, it took for ever and it seemed to hang at 96% for a long time,
  then 99% before prompting me a second time for a root password.  Then
  as soon as I entered the password, the error appeared.  It simply says
  "Failed to install the bootloader" and has a button that says "Quit".

  Unfortunately, this is all I can tell you since usb-creator-gtk lacks
  any sort of debug output option and I can't find where it writes any
  log files at all.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: usb-creator-gtk 0.2.56.3ubuntu0.2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-62.101-generic 3.13.11-ckt24
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-62-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.11
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Fri Sep 18 15:57:43 2015
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-03-15 (1282 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120307)
  SourcePackage: usb-creator
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-20 (516 days ago)

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