On 2015-09-17 11:26 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: > Den 2015-09-17 kl. 16:35, skrev Marc Deslauriers: >> Hi! >> >> On 2015-09-17 10:24 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: >>> Hi subscribers to the ubuntu-quality mailing list, > ,,, > >> Care to elaborate what the many bugs are? I use it every single day for >> testing >> security updates on real hardware and since bug 1279987 got fixed it's been >> working great for me. >> >>> > ... > >> Ideally it would also have both gtk and kde frontends, like usb-creator >> currently has. >> >> Marc. > > Hi Marc, > > Elaborating on bugs and strange behaviour: > > kansasnoob: > > 1. Aside from SDC being badly borked one of the most annoying design > flaws has always been the 10 minute timeout for installing the > bootloader. I'm sure I'm not the only one that multi-tasks constantly, > and not just at the desk. Watching and waiting for SDC to ask if you > want to install the bootloader is about like watching paint dry > ............... but if you get distracted for more than 10 minutes after > SDC asks about bootloader installation you have to start all over again
That's a one-line fix. Is there a bug opened for that issue? > > 2. Bug numbers > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/+bug/1325801 > > But the proposed "fix" resulted in this: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/+bug/1446646 > > My final comment on that bug was here: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/+bug/1325801/comments/146 > > S-D-C is borked - it's useless to create live USB's of either older or > newer versions of Ubuntu than the version you're running S-D-C on. And > the proposed fix that made it into Vivid and got backported into Utopic > resulted in S-D-C being able to only produce live USB's of the same > architecture. Bug 1325801 is being actively worked on. Interesting, I can't reproduce bug 1446646. I can create both amd64 and i386 bootable usb disks for trusty and vivid on my vivid amd64 laptop. Is there something special I need to do to reproduce your issue? > > mc4man: > > s-d-c worked ok here on 14.04.1 but fails now on installing bootloader > with 14.04.2/3. s-d-c does currently work in 15.10 (trying to create > 14.04.3 image) > > sudodus - alias me, Nio: > > There is also a bug that makes it impossible to 'erase a disk'. I don't > know if it has a bug number, but it is there at least in some of the > current versions. That's probably a udisks issue. It would help to actually have a bug filed for it. > > You see, there are too many bugs, that minor bug like the 'erase a disk' > was not even reported. Once we thought it would be squashed when a bug You've listed 4 bugs, two of which weren't even reported. I don't think that's too many to simply fix. > was being debugged, but it turned out to be independent of that bug, and > I don't know of any bug report directed against it. > > -o- > > Concerning front-ends, they can be more or less independent of gtk and kde. > > mkusb uses bash + zenity + pv, which are available without importing > heavy stacks of gtk or kde packages. I do hope you're not proposing to replace s-d-c with a bash script that needs admin privileges and doesn't use udisks or policykit. That would be a non-starter. > > Disks belongs to gnome, I don't know if there is any corresponding > built-in cloning tool in kde (not counting cp and dd). > > I don't know about Unetbootin and Multisystem and the other tools, how > many packages they will bring. But we can find out. > > Unetbootin has versions for Windows and Mac OS too, which is an advantage. > > Best regards > Nio > Marc. -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality
