I think I read somewhere, that manually invoking the failed command
allows the user to proceed. In the case of the original problem report
this would be the following command:
wipefs -a /dev/sdb1
Make sure you pass the correct partition to this command, or you will
lose data on whatever device you wiped instead!!! The correct device is
the first partition on whatever device is supposed to become a bootable
device, usually the device reported in the error message. You need to
invoke it with sudo if you aren't already root.
The work around worked for me at least. Since the underlying problem
appears to be a race condition, a few retries may help here it it
doesn't work right away. And yes, the bug is present in Ubuntu 15.10,
too :(
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Erase disk fails with error " wipefs: error: /dev/sdb1: probing
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