Startup Disk Creator Error

I am getting this error when trying to use Startup Disk Creator.

An error occurred while talking to the udisks service

Anyone have this working correctly?

Bill

I have same error and issue :popcorn:

It's a crash of usb-creator-helper, you'd likely see the .crash in /var/crash (root owned

If trying to file on, the report may be uploaded somewhere but at least here there will be no typical pop up, launchpad, ect. (thanks alot, see you later ??

Which startup disk creator? Raring? Quantal? Precise? Lucid?

jerrylamos said: Which startup disk creator? Raring? Quantal? Precise? Lucid?

What you think... Is that a thing now difficult to determine which version of ubuntu, this forum might that be?

jppr said: What you think... Is that a thing now difficult to determine which version of ubuntu, this forum might that be?

Historically, this sub-forum hasn't been opened until a week or so after UDS-X, it's only since I became an Admin that it's been opened earlier. Usually there isn't much happening the first week after UDS, but for many of the devs it was fairly close to home this time, so they didn't need a week to recover from their UDS hangover. :).

On top of that, for many of us, Startup Disk Creator was broken in Quantal too, so jerrylamos' question isn't out of line at all.

Then I will make it clear I am asking about Startup Disk Creator for Raring.

Bill

It has not worked for me in a long time and cant't write other distros. Unetbootin has its ups and downs to . Ive had problems with Brasero to so I use k3b when all else fails.

jppr said: What you think... Is that a thing now difficult to determine which version of ubuntu, this forum might that be?

When making a raring.iso usb to test the raring.iso I use whatever works.

I'd really expect someone starting to try raring would be running either precise LTS or quantal to make their first raring.iso.

Testing the raring.iso startup disk creator is a different test.

Personally I find it easier and faster just to boot the .iso from the hard disk. Zsync, reboot, try the .iso, if it works, install. Faster for me than creating USB's or DVD's. I've had poor luck with R/W DVD's and with the .iso's changing fast I don't want a pile of DVD's on the floor. I will use a USB to take the test .iso to a different pc, or just copy the .iso over the local network.

sparker256 said: Then I will make it clear I am asking about Startup Disk Creator for Raring.

Bill

I have had intermittent errors on all my boxes (all the way from Lucid) with SDC. As it stands now on one of my main machines , sometimes it works, sometimes it crashes. In otherwords, it's useless. What I do is I use this old version of Oneric Ocelot on an old Dell Opti and it has yet to fail.

It's worse now since the update...

I filed a bug on this a few days back. Join if you want.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/+bug/1077766

Finally filed a bug on this based on the crash (got apport to actually use LP on crashes , not sure if this is desired anymore vs just having it uploaded to some whoopsie db. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/+bug/1078810

Maybe I'll start a thread on apport, possibly someone knows... (hesitant to post how to get apport to file/open LP reports if it's not wanted anymore

The only way that I'm able to use usb-creator is to format the usb-key in FAT32 then:

sudo usb-creator-gtk --iso=/path/to/iso

Then select Erase Disk button (wait a moment that the disk will be available again), choose the desired extra space and finaly click on Make Startup Disk button Done!

In this way I'm able to put the distro isos on usb-key since Lucid; tried everything else without luck.

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