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[Richard Lobb <richard.lobb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm having this problem too, attempting to install Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook
Edition on an HP Mini 210. The error always occurs at exactly the same
point during the install process (with "copying files" at 35%). It
occurs with two different pen drives (2GB and 4GB) and with different
partitioning of the hard drive to use different areas of it. The iso
download from which I built the pen drive installation appears valid by
itself -- I've used it to install UNE on Virtual Box. At this stage
Startup Disk Creator seems like the culprit.

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USB Startup Disk Creator no longer works in Ubuntu 9.04
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/366087
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Status in usb-creator: Incomplete
Status in “usb-creator” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete

Bug description:
Binary package hint: usb-creator

I have been running Ubuntu 8.10 with a startup USB disk (1GB) made with unetbootin.  After booting in, I used the USB creator to install Ubuntu to a writable USB disk (4 GB).  Things worked well.  

Now that Ubuntu 9.04 came out, I wanted to try the same package with the new version. I successfully created a non-writable USB disk for 9.04 with unetbootin.  I am currently in Ubuntu 9.04 (on the 1 GB disk). However, when I use USB Creator to install 9.04 on the 4 GB disk, it consistently fails.  The error message points me to the log file.  These are the most recent lines in the log file:

<i>-- Starting up at 13:27:17 --
[13:27:17] /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/dbus/connection.py:242: DeprecationWarning: object.__init__() takes no parameters
  super(Connection, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
[13:27:17] adding: /dev/sdc
[13:27:17] new device:
{'udi': '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_49EA_155E', 'capacity': dbus.UInt64(1031756288L), 'uuid': '49EA-155E', 'device': '/dev/sdb1', 'mountpoint': '/cdrom', 'fstype': 'vfat', 'free': 272629760L, 'label': '5099A0'}
[13:27:17] adding: /dev/sdb1
[13:27:28] mounting /media/disk/Downloads/ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso
[13:27:28] ['mount', '-t', 'iso9660', '-o', 'loop,ro', '/media/disk/Downloads/ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso', '/tmp/tmp3E1nW0']
[13:27:28] updating dest_status as part of update_row_state
[13:27:28] ['umount', '/tmp/tmp3E1nW0']
[13:27:28] ['rmdir', '/tmp/tmp3E1nW0']
[13:27:40] ['umount', '/dev/sdc']
umount: /dev/sdc: not mounted
[13:27:40] ['parted', '-s', '/dev/sdc', 'mklabel', 'msdos']
[13:27:40] ['parted', '-s', '/dev/sdc', 'mkpartfs', 'primary', 'fat32', '0', '--', '-0']
[13:27:42] deleting /dev/sdc from the ui
[13:27:42] possibly adding: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_5027_6364
[13:27:42] new device:
{'udi': '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_5027_6364', 'capacity': dbus.UInt64(4018142720L), 'uuid': '5027-6364', 'device': '/dev/sdc1', 'mountpoint': '', 'fstype': 'vfat', 'free': 0, 'label': ''}
[13:27:42] adding: /dev/sdc1
[13:27:42] updating dest_status as part of update_row_state
[13:27:43] updating dest_status as part of update_row_state
[13:27:43] prop modified
[13:27:43] device_udi: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_5027_6364
[13:27:43] num_changes: 2
[13:27:43] change: volume.mount_point
[13:27:43] change: volume.is_mounted
[13:27:53] Installing...
[13:27:53] Source CD: /media/disk/Downloads/ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso
[13:27:53] Destination disk: /dev/sdc1
[13:27:53] Persistence size: 3277684736 B
[13:27:53] Marking partition 1 as active.
[13:27:53] installing the bootloader to /dev/sdc.
[13:27:53] ['dd', 'if=/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin', u'of=/dev/sdc', 'bs=446', 'count=1', 'conv=sync']
0+1 records in
1+0 records out
446 bytes (446 B) copied, 0.0118829 s, 37.5 kB/s
[13:27:53] installing the bootloader to /dev/sdc1.
[13:27:53] ['syslinux', '/dev/sdc1']
[13:27:54] ['parted', '-s', dbus.String(u'/dev/sdc'), 'set', u'1', 'boot', 'on']
[13:27:54] ['mount', '-o', 'loop,ro', '/media/disk/Downloads/ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso', '/tmp/tmpQTJpny']
[13:27:54] ['rm', '-rf', '/media/disk-1/autorun.inf']
[13:27:54] ['rm', '-rf', '/media/disk-1/casper']
[13:27:54] ['rm', '-rf', '/media/disk-1/dists']
[13:27:54] ['rm', '-rf', '/media/disk-1/install']
[13:27:54] ['rm', '-rf', '/media/disk-1/isolinux']
[13:27:54] ['rm', '-rf', '/media/disk-1/md5sum.txt']
[13:27:54] ['rm', '-rf', '/media/disk-1/pics']
[13:27:54] ['rm', '-rf', '/media/disk-1/pool']
[13:27:54] ['rm', '-rf', '/media/disk-1/preseed']
[13:27:54] ['rm', '-rf', '/media/disk-1/README.diskdefines']
[13:27:54] ['rm', '-rf', '/media/disk-1/ubuntu']
[13:27:54] ['rm', '-rf', '/media/disk-1/wubi.exe']
[13:27:54] ['rm', '-rf', '/media/disk-1/.disk']
[13:27:54] ['rm', '/media/disk-1/casper-rw']
rm: cannot remove `/media/disk-1/casper-rw': No such file or directory
[13:27:54] ['/usr/share/usb-creator/install.py', '-s', '/tmp/tmpQTJpny/.', '-t', '/media/disk-1', '-p', '3277684736']
Tried to symlink . -> /media/disk-1/ubuntu
Tried to symlink jaunty -> /media/disk-1/dists/stable
Tried to symlink jaunty -> /media/disk-1/dists/unstable
[Errno 5] Input/output error

[13:31:25] Unmounting source volume.
[13:31:25] ['umount', '/tmp/tmpQTJpny']
[13:31:25] ['rmdir', '/tmp/tmpQTJpny']
[13:31:25] Install command exited with code: 256
[13:31:25] Forcing shutdown of the install process.
[13:31:25] Unmounting source volume.
[13:31:25] ['umount', '/tmp/tmpQTJpny']
umount: /tmp/tmpQTJpny: not found
[13:31:25] ['rmdir', '/tmp/tmpQTJpny']
rmdir: failed to remove `/tmp/tmpQTJpny': No such file or directory
[13:31:25] Install failed.</i>

Other info:

<i>ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description:	Ubuntu 9.04
Release:	9.04
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ apt-cache policy usb-creator
usb-creator:
  Installed: 0.1.16
  Candidate: 0.1.16
  Version table:
 *** 0.1.16 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
</i>