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usb-creator-gtk fails in 14.04

Asked by FluxKing

I'm trying to make a bootable usb drive with the ubuntu 13.10 and 14.04 iso files
but when selecting my usb-drive and the iso the "make startup disk" is always grayed out

and if I click erase on my usb drive I get this?
so don't know if its a python problem?

org.freedesktop.DBus.Python.AttributeError: 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 218, in Format
    parent_dev = _get_parent_object(udisks, device)
  File "/usr/share/usb-creator/usb-creator-helper", line 49, in _get_parent_object
    parent = partition.get_cached_property('Table').get_string()
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_cached_property'

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FluxKing (dacobi) said : 		#1

erasing the usb drive and creating a new vfat filesystem, before running usb-creator, solves the problem.

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Lev (1ev) said : 		#2

on new vfat on 14.04 the same result:

org.freedesktop.DBus.Python.AttributeError: 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 218, in Format
    parent_dev = _get_parent_object(udisks, device)
  File "/usr/share/usb-creator/usb-creator-helper", line 49, in _get_parent_object
    parent = partition.get_cached_property('Table').get_string()
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_cached_property'

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Lev (1ev) said : 		#3

I have tried UNetbootin and it was able to create boot disk on the same USB device

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dah bien-hwa (dahbien-hwa) said : 		#4

Still getting this... why is it set to closed? What is the solution? Is it a bug, if so is there a related bug report?
Formatting the usb stick with FAT before running usb-creator (as mentioned above as workaround) did not fix the problem for me, usb-creator still shows the disk as being full, and erasing the disk has the same resulting error message as shown above...

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dah bien-hwa (dahbien-hwa) said : 		#5

Duh, stupid me, how could I miss the linked bug report :o. Sorry for the noise.

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Mark Howell (markjhowell) said : 		#6

I have seen the same error message reported by Lev in comment #2 above, and the behavior reported by dah bien-hwa in comment #4 above, on two updated Trusty systems with usb-creator-gtk 0.2.56.2. I believe this is different from bug 1273925.