20110303

This week's Hug Day will focus on usb-creator!

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Stock Responses

For problem specific Stock Responses see: Bugs/Responses

56 New Bugs

To mark it off the list you should:

  • Verify the bug is still not fixed
  • Request any needed info, Subscribe, Status to incomplete or

  • Set status to Confirmed

Bug

Subject

Triager

724065

usb-creator fails silently with insufficient permissions

722019

Failed to install the bootloader

719018

no way to create boot disk without persistent storage

713162

Cannot launch 'usb-creator-gtk' on 10.04 LTS (x64)

710825

usb-creator-gtk crashed with SIGSEGV in memmove()

708768

--iso with invalid pathname -> silently burns whatever iso it finds in ~/Downloads

707749

ValueError: Invalid version string

705832

USB Startup Disk error

ikt

705443

usb-creator-kde fails silently upon non ubuntu images

705353

usb-creator doesn't accept iso file

703431

cd image browser case-sensitive unnecessarily

702283

usb-creator doesn't create EFI-bootable USB sticks

701441

usbcreator on Windows does not detect the iso file if the folder name has non-latin letters

697471

Need to be able to output to an image file suitable for dd to a device.

697468

Need a shell invokation option with no GUI.

695860

"Installation failed" message - immediately (*.img)

694625

USB startup disk creator hangs on Finishing

692708

Cant't make bootable external USB HDD 320Gb Maxtor

674208

startup disk creator creates unbootable image

669342

users and group not working, message : unknown error happened

668201

fails to create with ISO based on Samba mount

663727

USB Creator 2.25 and Syslinux 4.x doenst work 2gether

661070

usb-creator-gtk assert failure: *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/python: free(): invalid pointer: 0x0a0074f0 ***

660311

Glib-warning **: getpwuid_r(): error when booting maverick from live usb

659929

usb creator crashes on uncaught exception Errno 5 i/o error

656827

usb-creator-gtk crashed with OSError in _execute_child()

654016

usb-create does not see built-in memory module /dev/sda

651544

usb-creator-gtk assert failure: *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/python: free(): invalid pointer: 0x09c396f0 ***

649139

usb-creator-gtk crashed with SIGSEGV

642691

package usb-creator-common 0.2.22.1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: Unterprozess installiertes post-installation-Skript gab den Fehlerwert 1 zurück

638807

usb-creator-gtk crashed with SIGSEGV in memmove_ssse3_rep()

636168

usb-creator-gtk crashed with ImportError in <module>()

632186

dual-layer optical drive causes a "image is too large" error even when I have chosen the appropriate ISO

628670

usb-creator-kde gives error "installation failed" when reading an image from NFS

622654

usb-creator wipe the whole disk, not only the selected partition

612106

Usb Start Up Disk Creator fails for Low Power Usb Port

610305

usb-creator progress bar should use bytes transferred, not file count

608023

Startup Disk Creator doesn't start , An error occurred while talking to the udisks service.

604271

frontend.py: No source selected.

604268

Don'n accept ISO amd64

602302

[maverick] usb-creator-gtk crashed with ImportError in <module>()

601560

usb-creator-gtk crashes on startup

598011

usb-creator-gtk crashes with OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

576309

usb-creator does not support block sectors larger than 512 bytes, provides inaccurate error

571955

usb-creator fails to create a lucid live-usb drive

ikt

570860

usb-creator-gtk crashed with img file (dbus TypeError)

564485

usb-creator-kde crashed with KeyError in update_target()

562951

doesn't gray out create disk when no source is seleted.

553811

[lucid] Impossible make USB startup disk with usb-creator-gtk application, now usb-creator-gtk is unuseable my system

527972

[Lucid Alpha 3] usb-creator.exe does not accept ISO selection on Windows XP system

508264

Iso-testing: Lucid i386 DVD - persistence doesn't work

506610

Exclamation mark without reason or tooltip

506602

Feature request: Identify disk devices as best as possible

505663

there is no feedback when cancelling operation... may be freeze

501052

NO debug information whatsoever

473389

checksums does not match.

2 Incomplete Bugs

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  • Change the bug's status to "Confirmed" or "Triaged" if the reporter replied with enough information or

  • Ask a secondary follow up question and subscribe to the bug report

Bug

Subject

Triager

687374

LiveUSB created with Natty ISO not persistent

301835

USB startup disk creator doen't work

42 Confirmed Bugs

To mark it off the list you should:

  • Verify the bug is still not fixed
  • Request any needed info, Subscribe, Status to incomplete or
  • Set status to triaged UbuntuBugControl

Bug

Subject

Triager

697743

Should use losetup and udisks DBus calls instead of mktemp and manual mounts

572611

usb-creator shrows segmentation fault when trying to create Ubuntu 10.04 i386 disk

557775

Persistent Storage option always greyed out

550609

ubuntu 10.04 beta1 - usb startup disk not persistent

542239

does not unmount its hidden USB drive

541795

usb-creator-kde doesn't select the .iso you choose

533276

Fails to enable "Make Startup Disk" button

521694

Time and percentage reported is inaccurate

514798

usb-creator-gtk silently ignores command line arguments

507309

Should not re-mount all connected drives on startup

506586

Regression: usb-creator replaced using abstracted device names by using device paths. This should not be the default.

506577

Error "Unable to mount #.#GB Filesystem. A job is pending on /dev/sd?#" displayed when inserting fat32 drive while usb-creator is open

506441

Ubuntu Netboot/Minimal CD Image does not work with usb-creator

500696

Target FAT32 filesystem has fsck errors after install

500526

usb-creator silently ignores invalid ISO files without warning the user.

477286

USB creator works only after relogin

462560

Read the amount of free space from the superblock.

460966

Does not provide UI notification when a partition cannot be unmounted.

458482

usb drives imaged with usb-creator fail to boot on some systems

458176

Use fsck.vfat to ensure the filesystem is not damaged.

454493

Remaining time calculation is wildly inaccurate.

449234

Using usb-creator to format a USB drive does not succeed

434046

Should disable the cancel button when sync is running.

398241

When Booted Comes Up With "Boot Error"

390270

usb-creator cannot create bootable system on flash drive

375853

Persistence option has no effect in 9.04

366531

FATAL: "Could not load modules.dep" after an update

346700

[jaunty] Usb-creator creates incorrect free, persistent space; to /cdrom not /

335359

Add a pretend / test mode

333110

Installation Failed

321937

usb-creator has hard-coded references to Ubuntu

320342

Encrypted data partition support in usb-creator

313464

"Boot from first hard disk" does not work

309806

should be able to use .iso files on remote systems (with gvfs)

305451

live-usb persistence: mtab accumulates appendages

297634

Should support install media from other distributions

285823

Option not to auto-run umenu

285821

Install into a subdirectory of the root of the disk.

275901

Final text is confusing for users with more than one machine

269786

When inserting a stick, no nautilus window should steal focus

269772

When running LiveUSB, LiveUSB itself should not be selectable as a target

268685

IO errors in install.py, such as ENOSPC should give more detailed errors to the UI.

2 Bugs with Patches

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  • Verify if the patch really is a patch.
  • If it is not, unmark it as a patch.
  • If it is, get the bug triaged and looked by the maintainer.

Bug

Subject

Triager

565375

Doesn't work on Debian, because using is_alive instead of isAlive

484252

Format action wipes all partitions

Progress

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UbuntuBugDay/20110303 (last edited 2011-03-02 23:15:02 by ppp230-40)