I'm trying again now, and I get the same issues. The second program is invoked like this:
udisks-helper-modify-partition /dev/sdb 4194304 15927345152 0x0c boot My /proc/partitions looks like this: $ cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 7 0 30457856 loop0 7 1 781312 loop1 8 0 732574584 sda 8 1 26214400 sda1 8 2 307263488 sda2 8 3 1 sda3 8 5 399092736 sda5 8 16 15558144 sdb 8 17 15554048 sdb1 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1114545 Title: Startup Disk Creator fails when erasing disk To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/+bug/1114545/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs