[Bug 859539] Re: usb-creator-gtk fails to install bootloader: "System policy prevents installing the bootloader"

[JohnWashington]

"Wait until the LED stops flashing", some have recommended.  But there
are plenty of USB sticks, even ones from well advertised brands such as
SanDisk, that don't have an LED.  Presumably users of such sticks are
expected to be psychic?

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Title:
  usb-creator-gtk fails to install bootloader: "System policy prevents
  installing the bootloader"

Status in usb-creator package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  When creating USB stick from Ubuntu CD ISO image (or any other
  bootable CD ISO image for that matter) upon finishing copying files
  onto the USB stick I am getting an error message "System policy
  prevents installing the bootloader"followed by password prompt. When I
  enter the password, I get an error message "Failed to install
  bootloader". The result is the USB stick with all necessary files on
  it, but it is not bootable. I do have all administrative rights for
  the account I am using.

  And if I start usb-creator-gtk from a command line after "sudo -s" it
  crashes with a segmentation fault just after copying files onto the
  USB stick.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: usb-creator-gtk 0.2.28.3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.50-generic 2.6.38.8
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Sep 26 14:18:09 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=ru:en
   LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: usb-creator
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-15 (163 days ago)

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