[Bug 1460602] Re: Erasing disk failed: Error wiping newly created partition

[sudodus]

My tip for a solution is independent of waiting for udisks to be fixed:

* Wipe the first megabyte (actually mibibyte) *

When the target drive is identified and selected (so that there can be
no mistake), simply wipe the first mibibyte (use dd under the hood to
overwrite it with zeros). This has worked well for me and people I have
helped at the Ubuntu Forums. It is part of mkusb and I have used and
recommended the method for years. mkusb from ppa:mkusb/unstable has a
menu with several alternatives, where the first one (standard) will
create pendrives, that work with for example the s-d-c and Unetbootin.

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Title:
  Erasing disk failed: Error wiping newly created partition

Status in usb-creator package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I tried to erase a normal 8GB USB stick on up to date Ubuntu 15.04.
  This dialog appeared:

  org.freedesktop.DBus.Python.GLib.Error: Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/service.py", line 707, in _message_cb
      retval = candidate_method(self, *args, **keywords)
    File "/usr/share/usb-creator/usb-creator-helper", line 287, in Format
      partition = table.call_create_partition_sync(0, size, '0x0c', '', no_options, None)
  GLib.Error: udisks-error-quark: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Error.Failed: Error wiping newly created partition /dev/sdc1: Command-line `wipefs -a "/dev/sdc1"' exited with non-zero exit status 1: wipefs: error: /dev/sdc1: probing initialization failed: No such file or directory
   (0)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
  Package: usb-creator-gtk 0.2.67ubuntu0.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-18.18-generic 3.19.6
  Uname: Linux 3.19.0-18-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.1
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: X-Cinnamon
  Date: Mon Jun  1 13:20:30 2015
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-02-12 (108 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release amd64 (20141022.1)
  SourcePackage: usb-creator
  UDisksDump: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'udisks'
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2015-05-12 (19 days ago)

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