I can confirm that the bug exists (and has a simple workaround).
Mine is an updated UbuntuMate (15.04) and while trying to create a new Bootable
USB pen drive got the same error. As mentioned elsewhere, opened up the pen
drive in fdisk, removed all partitions, created one partition as 'c' type
Some variation of this(these?) bug(s?) still seems to exist on vivid. I
landed here googling my original error message. While attempting to
workaround / document it I now experience an error:
org.freedesktop.DBus.Python.GLib.Error: Traceback (most recent call last):
File
This issue seems to marked as fix released under Trusty, but I am seeing the
issue (or one
very similar). I have a brand-new SSD drive that I've put into an external USB
enclosure
and I am trying to install 14.10 onto it.
When I click on Erase Disk (the only apparently available option) after
With 14.04. and usb-creator-gtk version 0.2.56.2 i get the following
error message:
org.freedesktop.DBus.Python.gi._glib.GError: Traceback (most recent call
last): File /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/service.py, line
707, in _message_cb retval = candidate_method(self, *args,
I'm glad that there is progress with usb-creator-gtk. Obviously there
were several bugs. Now it works fairly well (except that there are
problems with the erase function).
I made an alternative tool, mkusb, that easily wipes the traces from
previous file systems as well as makes cloned copies of
i get this error in 2.56.2 in ubuntu 14.04
The stick has a ntfs partition .
The usb-creator should report the issue more clean.
'Hey! cant erase that stick!..'
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I'm getting the error with 0.2.56.2
For me, it doesn't help to format to FAT32 (using gparted).
Here is my error mesage:
org.freedesktop.DBus.Python.gi._glib.GError: Traceback (most recent call last):
File /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/service.py, line 707, in
_message_cb
retval =
** Changed in: oem-priority
Status: In Progress = Fix Released
** Changed in: oem-priority/trusty
Status: New = Fix Released
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@Bryan, could you please paste the error messages here?
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Title:
Error erasing device: Unknown or unsupported erase type `'
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I still get this error with the new version 0.2.56.2.
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Title:
Error erasing device: Unknown or unsupported erase type `'
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I get this
org.freedesktop.DBus.Python.gi._glib.GError: Traceback (most recent call last):
File /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/service.py, line 707, in
_message_cb
retval = candidate_method(self, *args, **keywords)
File /usr/share/usb-creator/usb-creator-helper, line 239, in Format
The timed out error should be a different issue, bug #1059872.
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Title:
Error erasing device: Unknown or unsupported erase type `'
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This bug was fixed in the package usb-creator - 0.2.56.2
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usb-creator (0.2.56.2) trusty-proposed; urgency=medium
* Drop invalid empty erase type. We don't need to erase the device (you
can use Disks if you want that for some reason). Fixes Unknown or
unsupported erase
Bug #1361475 is filed for the third fail case in comment #29.
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Title:
Error erasing device: Unknown or unsupported erase type `'
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I verified with usb-creator 0.2.56, my usbstick has dos partition table
and two fat32 partitions, then I launch usb-creator-gtk, select the
first partition and click Eraase Disk, after a second or two, the
partition is successfully erased, all files in the partition are erased
as expected.
So I
Bug #1361474 is filed for the second fail case in comment #29.
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Title:
Error erasing device: Unknown or unsupported erase type `'
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Hello Fabio, or anyone else affected,
Accepted usb-creator into trusty-proposed. The package will build now
and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-
creator/0.2.56.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.
Please help us by testing this new package. See
** Branch linked: lp:ubuntu/trusty-proposed/usb-creator
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Title:
Error erasing device: Unknown or unsupported erase type `'
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I uploaded the fix to the trusty SRU review queue.
** Summary changed:
- usb-creator fails to wipe usb device when the device has ext4 partition
+ Error erasing device: Unknown or unsupported erase type `'
** Changed in: usb-creator (Ubuntu Trusty)
Status: Confirmed = In Progress
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