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[Richard Lobb <richard.lobb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oops, correction to my previous posting. I remembered that the iso
download I'd used successfully before in VirtualBox wasn't actually the
same download I was using with USB Startup Disk Creator. So I just did
an md5 check -- sure enough, the version I'd been having all the issues
with was corrupt. Downloading another version (and verifying its
checksum this time!) solved all my problems.

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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>