[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#732068: gnome-disk-utility: Can't format external USB partition / device

[Fabián Rodríguez]

Package: gnome-disk-utility
Version: 3.10.0-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

When trying to format an external USB device using gnome-disks it fails with the following message:
Error synchronizing after initial wipe: Timed out waiting for object (udisks-error-quark, 0)

This bug has been reported for some time in Ubuntu too:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks/+bug/1059872

Steps to reproduce:
- Insert device with some free space left (non-formatted). In this case I was using a 4GB device previous dd'ed with Live Debian 7.2 (Gnome) with ~2.7 GB free
- Start disk utility
- Choose the device, then the free partition
- Choose to add a partition, any format (I tried FAT 32, ext4 and LUKS+encrypted - this last one required installed parted)
- Disk utility fails with the above mentioned message



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-disk-utility depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.18.0-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.10.0-2
ii  libc6                                        2.17-97
ii  libcairo-gobject2                            1.12.16-2
ii  libcairo2                                    1.12.16-2
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                           0.30-2
ii  libcanberra0                                 0.30-2
ii  libdvdread4                                  4.2.0+20130219-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.28.2-1+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.37.93-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.8.6-1
ii  liblzma5                                     5.1.1alpha+20120614-2
ii  libnotify4                                   0.7.6-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.36.0-1+b1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                          1.36.0-1+b1
ii  libpwquality1                                1.2.3-1
ii  libsecret-1-0                                0.15-2
ii  libsystemd-login0                            204-5
ii  libudisks2-0                                 2.1.1-1
ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.6.2-1
ii  udisks2                                      2.1.1-1

gnome-disk-utility recommends no packages.

gnome-disk-utility suggests no packages.

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