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usb creater

Asked by adom he

i am trying to create a bootable USB stick
when i open usb creator i receive this error message,
An error occurred while talking to the udisks service.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

Details, please! Which release of Ubuntu, which version of usb-creator, etc.

What is the output of the following commands (to be executed in a terminal window):

uname -a
lsb_release -crid
apt-cache policy usb-creator*

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adom he (doobapooba1) said : 		#2

version is : kubuntu 16.04.7 LTS

i was trying to use startup disk creator

uname -a
Linux q-Latitude-D420 4.15.0-142-generic #146~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 13 09:26:57 UTC 2021 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux

lsb_release -crid
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial

apt-cache policy usb-creator*
usb-creator-common:
  Installed: 0.3.2ubuntu16.04.2
  Candidate: 0.3.2ubuntu16.04.2
  Version table:
 *** 0.3.2ubuntu16.04.2 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.3.2ubuntu16.04.1 500
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main i386 Packages
     0.3.2 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages
usb-creator-gtk:
  Installed: 0.3.2ubuntu16.04.2
  Candidate: 0.3.2ubuntu16.04.2
  Version table:
 *** 0.3.2ubuntu16.04.2 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.3.2ubuntu16.04.1 500
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main i386 Packages
     0.3.2 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages

usb-creator-kde:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.3.2ubuntu16.04.2
  Version table:
     0.3.2ubuntu16.04.2 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe i386 Packages
     0.3.2ubuntu16.04.1 500
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/universe i386 Packages
     0.3.2 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe i386 Packages

i used to use Netbootin, but i am unable to use that creator either

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Best Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#3

Support for Ubuntu 16.04 has already ended (except ESM for servers).

If startup disk creator does not work for whatever reason, I suggest that you try balena etcher.

Download https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/releases/download/v1.7.9/balenaEtcher-1.7.9-ia32.AppImage to your hard disk, e.g. the Downloads folder, make it executable (chmod a+x Downloads/balenaEtcher-1.7.9-ia32.AppImage) and execute it (Downloads/balenaEtcher-1.7.9-ia32.AppImage)

(If that also fails, another option is unetbootin)

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adom he (doobapooba1) said : 		#4

thank you so much for your help, but i was able to use unetbootin from the terminal and create a usb stick
:)

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adom he (doobapooba1) said : 		#5

Thanks Manfred Hampl, that solved my question.