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Bug 730062 - Error formatting disk "Error synchronizing after initial wipe: Timed out waiting for object (udisks-error-quark, 0)"
Error formatting disk "Error synchronizing after initial wipe: Timed out wait...
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-disk-utility
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.10.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: gnome-disk-utility-maint
gnome-disk-utility-maint
: 741284 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-05-13 13:06 UTC by Amr Ibrahim
Modified: 2018-05-24 10:29 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 3.9/3.10

Attachments
Error when formatting USB flash drive (170.85 KB, image/png)
2014-05-13 13:08 UTC, Amr Ibrahim 		Details
output of udisksctl (10.46 KB, text/plain)
2014-07-01 17:03 UTC, Michael Catanzaro 		Details

Description Amr Ibrahim 2014-05-13 13:06:32 UTC 
I get this error "Error synchronizing after initial wipe: Timed out waiting for object (udisks-error-quark, 0)" when I try to format a USB flash drive. The flash drive is not formatted. See screenshot.

Downstream bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-disk-utility/+bug/1318954
Comment 1 Amr Ibrahim 2014-05-13 13:08:47 UTC 
Created attachment 276451 [details]
Error when formatting USB flash drive
Comment 2 Sulphur 2014-06-19 17:41:41 UTC 
Same problem here.
Comment 3 Michael Catanzaro 2014-07-01 16:59:34 UTC 
100% reproducible with gnome-disks 3.10.0, udisks 2.1.2 on Fedora 20, when trying to format the first partition of [1] using the gear menu next to the mount and delete buttons. I'm going to attach the output of udisksctl, beginning from when I plugged in the flash drive to right after the format operation failed.

P.S. Between selecting format and the appearance of the error message, it looked like gnome-disks was not doing anything. This was confusing -- I would have expected it to display a spinner up until it failed, like it does normally.

[1] http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/20/Live/x86_64/Fedora-Live-Desktop-x86_64-20-1.iso
Comment 4 Michael Catanzaro 2014-07-01 17:03:01 UTC 
Created attachment 279701 [details]
output of udisksctl

udisksctl output beginning when I plugged in my flash drive, ending right after the error message appeared.

I wonder if it's bad that there is no UUID or Type listed at the very end of the log.
Comment 5 Michael Catanzaro 2014-07-01 17:08:48 UTC 
11:53:38.928: /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/jobs/14: org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Job::Completed (true, 'mount: /dev/sdb1 is write-protected, mounting read-only\n')

Could that be the problem?

It occurs to me that I was never asked to authenticate before formatting the partition; that seems bad too.
Comment 6 Michael Catanzaro 2014-07-01 17:15:19 UTC 
Another downstream bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=732068
Comment 7 Martin Pitt 2014-08-20 05:14:01 UTC 
This is because of a too old wipefs in Debian/Ubuntu which doesn't actually work. See https://launchpad.net/bugs/1059872 . It works fine with recent util-linux versions.
Comment 8 Martin Pitt 2014-08-20 05:14:51 UTC 
Argh sorry, wrong bug.
Comment 9 Teppo Turtiainen 2015-06-14 13:22:40 UTC 
*** Bug 741284 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-24 10:29:15 UTC 
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