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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I am testing Lubuntu Desktop i386 Saucy daily 2013061 and there are new
problems with the usb-creator-gtk and the gui shutdown.

See these details

Best regards
Nio
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I ran one test in VirtualBox and one test in a desktop with this mobo

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M2NVM_DVI/

and an AMD 4400+ dual coreCPU and 2 GB RAM.

I found these bugs:
458334, 940919, 966480, 1029212, 1190170

Short comment:

Bug 1165200 in usb-creator-gtk is fixed here in saucy (seems to work at
least in this 32-bit version), this time it terminates with segfault,
but creates a good persistent USB drive anyway.

The dbus bug 458334 seems hardy, I think it has survived from karmic
into saucy.

Bug 1190170 'no gui shutdown in lubuntu' has 'moved'. I get one step
further (to the menu with shutdown, reboot, ..., logout,...,) but then
nothing happens. CLI shutdown works.

Bug 966480 is still there, no prompt in plymouth graphics mode, but it
it shown in plymouth text mode, as when the (default) splash boot option
is removed.

The bugs 940919, 966480, 1029212 have survived from Raring.
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Long comment about usb-creator-gtk:

I try from a saucy dd-cloned USB drive with a live 32-bit lubuntu saucy
to run usb-creator-gtk, to make a USB HDD with three partitions
persistent live:

the first one FAT32 for a persistent live system, and the next two
partitions for an installed system. This is probably somewhat harder
than a clean drive (newly edited by gparted to have an msdos partition
table and one single empty FAT32 partition). But usb-creator-gtk has a
button to erase the device, and if does not work, it should be fixed or
the button removed.

Bug 1165200 in usb-creator-gtk is fixed here in saucy (seems to work at
least in this 32-bit version). This time it terminates with *segfault
but creates a good persistent USB drive anyway*
gtk.
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Disk /dev/sdg: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00060779

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdg1   *        2048     8388607     4193280    b  W95 FAT32
/dev/sdg2         8388608    12388351     1999872   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdg3        12388352    43638783    15625216   83  Linux
lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ df
Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
/cow              967376    38164    929212   4% /
udev              958412        4    958408   1% /dev
tmpfs             193476      896    192580   1% /run
/dev/sdf          702464   702464         0 100% /cdrom
/dev/loop0        644480   644480         0 100% /rofs
none                   4        0         4   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs             967376        4    967372   1% /tmp
none                5120        0      5120   0% /run/lock
none              967376        0    967376   0% /run/shm
none              102400        8    102392   1% /run/user
/dev/sda2      206666964 41432652 154736240  22% /media/lubuntu/multimed-2
/dev/sdg3       15248784    38128  14429396   1%
/media/lubuntu/saucy-installed
/dev/loop1        702464   702464         0 100% /tmp/tmp73xte_
/dev/sdg1        4185088  4152800     32288 100% /media/lubuntu/SAUCY-LIVE
lubuntu@lubuntu:~$
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I failed to wipe the first partition on the target drive using
usb-creator-gtk. I got 'the dbus error'. This dbus error is new to me,
but I have read about it, for example in the wiki page.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick

It seems to be bug 458334, that has survived from karmic to saucy, so it
is a really hardy bug ;-)

usb-creator-gtk is not able to wipe the first partition of my USB drive.
Instead I could wipe this first partition using rm.

sudo rm -r /media/lubuntu/SAUCY-LIVE/*

And then, when I ran usb-creator-gtk I got the segfault again (after
several successful attempts with recent (but earlier) daily builds).
Maybe because I tried and failed removing all old files from the first
partition, but I think I have succeeded with that a few times.
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lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ sudo rm -r /media/lubuntu/SAUCY-LIVE/*
lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ usb-creator-gtk
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/overrides/GLib.py:53:
PyGIDeprecationWarning: threads_init longer needs to be called. See:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686914
  PyGIDeprecationWarning)
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
lubuntu@lubuntu:~$