Hi, Thanks for trying it.
On 2015-09-18 06:01 PM, J wrote: > I'm just going to throw this out there, because I abandoned SDC > (usb-creator-gtk) ages ago in favor of unetbootin, and this thread prompted me > to spend some time this afternoon checking it out and seeing if it was usable > or > not. > > Keep in mind, this is my sample size of one, but I tried three ISOs: > > original 14.04, most recent 15.04 and todays 15.10 daily live. > > I also tried 3 different USB sticks, an ADATA 16GB USB3, a Sony 8GB USB2 and a > generic 4GB USB2 stick. > > I use LTSs for desktop, thus I have a current and fully updated 14.04.3 > system. > I also, for grins, tried creating these using both a USB3 hub that I use > mostly, > and directly attached to a USB3 port on my system, an HP Z220 workstation. > > 1: Not all of the options via CLI seem to work > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/+bug/1497431 I can reproduce this on vivid. Thanks for reporting it. > > 2: I was, using three different sticks, three different ISOs on my updated > trusty system, unable to create ANY successful usb stick: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/+bug/1497445 This is because the usb-creator that is in trusty-proposed, and already marked as "verification-failed" is broken. Could you please try it again with the version that is in trusty? > > 3: I discovered that not only was I unable to create a usb stick using > usb-creator-gtk, it also fails to clean up after itself after it fails to > create > usb sticks, leaving all sorts of mounted filesystems behind: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/+bug/1497449 > > So, point is, I completely understand the frustration that the others feel, > because I feel it myself, and have for some time, especially when usb-creator > has over 450 open bugs right now of varying importance, 205 of which are still > in the New state going all the way back to Lucid and still untriaged. I, > myself, have 10 bugs filed against it, none of which were every moved beyond > New > or Confirmed. > > There appear to be 899 total bugs for usb-creator > 424 in some open state (New, Confirmed, Triaged, Incomplete) > 0 in In Progress or Fix Committed > 229 in Fixed Released That's not so bad, there are currently 3676 open bugs for the kernel and 2018 open bugs for Unity :) > > Today, when I want to try a daily image, I use a VM because I don't have to > make > a bootable usb stick to boot a VM. If I want to install to bare metal, I have > to use unetbootin, because for all its flaws, it works far more often than > not, > and certainly more often than SDC, for me. > > And I can only base this on my one experience, because while you may, somehow, > be able to build USB sticks all day long using this tool, I, generally, have > had > the opposite experience with it, going all the way back to pre-Lucid. > So it would seem to me that there are quite a few open and reported issues for > usb-creator that present the perception of essentially being ignored. > > In any case, the above is my personal experience, and I don't presume to speak > for anyone else in this discussion, so grain of salt, YMMV, and all that. Every bug is important. What's needed is volunteers to help fix them. Marc. -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality
