Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: usb-creator
$HOME is NFS-mounted and the clients root-user has no right on the NFS-
server.
usb-creator tries to write .usb-creator.log in users home directory but
are not alloewd to write to users home. usb-creator crashes.
$ usb-creator
File "/usr/bin/usb-creator", line 40, in <module>
f = GtkFrontend()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/usbcreator/gtk_frontend.py", line 52,
in __init__
self.backend = Backend(self)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/usbcreator/backend.py", line 87, in
__init__
self.logger = Logger()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/usbcreator/backend.py", line 33, in
__init__
self.fp = open(log_file, 'a')
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/magru/.usb-creator.log'
Exception exceptions.AttributeError: "Logger instance has no attribute 'fp'" in
<bound method Logger.__del__ of <usbcreator.backend.Logger instance at
0x1f80710>> ignored
$ usb-creator --version
0.1.8
~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10
$ apt-cache policy usb-creator
usb-creator:
Installed: 0.1.10
Candidate: 0.1.10
Version table:
*** 0.1.10 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Workaround
=========
$ sudo -s
# export SUDO_USER=root
# usb-creator
** Affects: usb-creator (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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usb-creator does not work when $HOME is on NFS
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295172
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