By the way, not even a comment from an Ubuntu maintainer for 2 years, and yet using Startup Disk Creator is the official way to create install media. Imagine the scenario which must've happened more than once:
Ubuntu Enthusiast: Here, I'll make you a USB stick so you can try it…wait…oh, my computer's frozen! Potential Ubuntu user: Thanks, I'll stick with Windows/Mac OS. [optional: Ubuntu Enthusiast: Yeah, I think I might switch back.] -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-disk-utility in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/689593 Title: 2x100% CPU and memory usage growth when setting bootable flag in palimpsest Status in abstraction for enumerating and managing block devices: New Status in “gnome-disk-utility” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: When unsetting the bootable flag on a partition using palimpsest, the following things happen: - udisks-helper-modify-partition and udisks-daemon processes use 100% CPU each - udisks-daemon chews about 18MiB of memory each second This problem exists regardless of whether the partition is mounted or not. natty gnome-disk-utility 2.32.1-0ubuntu3 udisks 1.0.2-1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/udisks/+bug/689593/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
