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

Mon Apr 7 13:34:48 UTC 2014

Hi,

Fabián Rodríguez wrote (13 Dec 2013 14:47:23 GMT) :
> 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

This looks very much like Debian bug #695473, that was reassigned to
util-linux, and has a patch applied.