In case it's of use, I've also captured an image of my SanDisk SDCZ40-016G immediately after encountering this bug when trying to install ubuntu-13.04-beta2-desktop-amd64.iso using Startup Disk Creator in Ubuntu 12.10. The image is 1.6 GB compressed. Let me know if you need a copy.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-disk-utility in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/689593 Title: 2x100% CPU and memory usage growth when setting bootable flag in palimpsest Status in abstraction for enumerating and managing block devices: New Status in “gnome-disk-utility” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “usb-creator” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: When unsetting the bootable flag on a partition using palimpsest, the following things happen: - udisks-helper-modify-partition and udisks-daemon processes use 100% CPU each - udisks-daemon chews about 18MiB of memory each second This problem exists regardless of whether the partition is mounted or not. natty gnome-disk-utility 2.32.1-0ubuntu3 udisks 1.0.2-1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/udisks/+bug/689593/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp