I had this same problem and was able to fix it by taking out the flash drive and putting it in another slot.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to seahorse in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1070331 Title: Error formatting volume Status in “seahorse” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: When I try to format my USB Pen Drive with "Disks program" (v. 3.6.1) started from "Dash Home" in Ubuntu 12.10, I get this error message: Error erasing device: Error opening device /dev/sdf1: Device or resource busy (udisks-error-quark, 0) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/seahorse/+bug/1070331/+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
