Second workaround: gnome-disks works if wiping the whole device (in the format menu) before creating the partition and file system. But this is very slow.
It is enough to wipe the first megabyte (actually mibibyte 1024x1024 bytes) which takes less than 1 second compared to 6-16 minutes to wipe the whole device in typical 4 GB pendrives. Wiping the whole device is also causing unnecessary wear of the flash hardware. It possible to do it stepwise. First the partition is created and in the next step the file system. The tools are there but the internal work flow is buggy. Average users will give up long before they have explored all the alternatives. -o- Third workaround: It works with root privileges, but I guess this is not what you developers want ;-) sudo -H gnome-disks First 'Format disk' to create a new partition table, then 'Create partition in unallocated place' at the plus sign. -- 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/1547340 Title: gnome-disks crashed with SIGSEGV in g_dbus_object_get_interface() Status in gnome-disk-utility package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: crashed when making a usb fat32 and did not finish making a fat32 file system. ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: gnome-disk-utility 3.18.3.1-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: hostname 4.4.0-4.19-generic 4.4.1 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-4-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: wl ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Fri Feb 19 01:10:08 2016 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-disks InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-02-18 (1 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20160217) ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-disks --gapplication-service ProcEnviron: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> SHELL=/bin/bash LANGUAGE=en_US PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SegvAnalysis: Segfault happened at: 0x7fa8b4a38b6f <g_dbus_object_get_interface+15>: mov (%rbx),%rdi PC (0x7fa8b4a38b6f) ok source "(%rbx)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)! destination "%rdi" ok SegvReason: reading NULL VMA Signal: 11 SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility StacktraceTop: g_dbus_object_get_interface () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0 udisks_object_peek_drive () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudisks2.so.0 gdu_window_select_object () ?? () ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0 Title: gnome-disks crashed with SIGSEGV in g_dbus_object_get_interface() UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo vboxusers To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-disk-utility/+bug/1547340/+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
