Gnome-disk-utility broken?

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If i flash an *.iso to an usb. thumb-drive i cannot boot from this thumb-drive. But if i use Mint gnome-drive everything is ok, i can boot!

Where to write a bug report if someone can reproduce this issue

[john1@manjaro ~]$ yay -Qi gnome-disk-utility
Name : gnome-disk-utility
Version : 42.0-1
Beschreibung : Disk Management Utility for GNOME
Architektur : x86_64
URL : GNOME / gnome-disk-utility · GitLab
Lizenzen : GPL
Gruppen : gnome
Stellt bereit : Nichts
Hängt ab von : udisks2 gtk3 libsecret libpwquality libcanberra libdvdread libnotify parted systemd libhandy
Optionale Abhängigkeiten : Nichts
Benötigt von : Nichts
Optional für : Nichts
In Konflikt mit : Nichts
Ersetzt : Nichts
Installationsgröße : 6,30 MiB
Packer : Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) heftig@archlinux.org
Erstellt am : Sa 02 Apr 2022 18:57:08 CEST
Installiert am : Fr 13 Mai 2022 12:04:06 CEST
Installationsgrund : Ausdrücklich installiert
Installations-Skript : Nein
Verifiziert durch : Signatur

Info:

[manjaro john1]# inxi -FxzcD
System:
  Kernel: 5.15.60-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.1.1
    Desktop: Xfce v: 4.16.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 81RS v: Lenovo Yoga S740-14IIL
    serial: <filter>
  Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: SDK0J40709 WIN serial: <filter>
    UEFI: LENOVO v: BYCN39WW date: 05/28/2021
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 64.1 Wh (98.2%) condition: 65.3/62.0 Wh (105.3%)
    volts: 17.1 min: 15.4 model: LGC L19L4PD2 status: full
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: Intel Core i7-1065G7 bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Ice Lake rev: 5 cache: L1: 320 KiB L2: 2 MiB L3: 8 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1100 high: 1101 min/max: 400/3900 cores: 1: 1100
    2: 1100 3: 1101 4: 1100 5: 1101 6: 1100 7: 1101 8: 1100 bogomips: 23968
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel
    arch: Gen-11 bus-ID: 00:02.0
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP108M [GeForce MX250] vendor: Lenovo driver: nvidia
    v: 515.65.01 arch: Pascal bus-ID: 2b:00.0
  Device-3: Chicony Integrated Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
    bus-ID: 3-5:5
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.4 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting,nvidia unloaded: nouveau gpu: i915 resolution:
    1: 1920x1080~60Hz 2: N/A
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel Iris Plus Graphics (ICL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa
    22.1.6 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Ice Lake-LP Smart Sound Audio vendor: Lenovo
    driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-icl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.60-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: sndio v: N/A running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: no
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.56 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ice Lake-LP PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
    bus-ID: 00:14.3
  IF: wlp0s20f3 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8153 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter type: USB
    driver: r8152 bus-ID: 2-1.4:4
  IF: enp0s13f0u1u4 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: pan1 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 3-10:14
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 4 state: up address: see --recommends
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.87 TiB used: 396.19 GiB (20.7%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Micron model: MTFDHBA1T0TCK size: 953.87 GiB
    temp: 42.9 C
  ID-2: /dev/sda type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: Extreme size: 29.25 GiB
  ID-3: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Western Digital model: WD10EARX-00N0YB0
    size: 931.51 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 57.85 GiB used: 40.86 GiB (70.6%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p8
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 259.5 MiB used: 113.6 MiB (43.8%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 16.67 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p9
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 44.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 281 Uptime: 1h 24m Memory: 15.19 GiB used: 2.38 GiB (15.6%)
  Init: systemd Compilers: gcc: 12.1.1 clang: 14.0.6 Packages: 1794
  Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 inxi: 3.3.21

After ?-days of searching the solution was found …

I’m curious what at last the reason for this issue is!

The maintainer is from Arch, so i asked in arch IRC → artefact> !notarch! burn the !heretic
They also don’t like me :slight_smile:

See also:
Gnome Gitlab Bugreport

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It would never have crossed my mind to use gnome-disk-utility to try and create a bootable thumbdrive.
Are you sure that this is actually supposed to work and be used for that purpose?

To put an .iso on a thumb drive you want to boot from, use command line tools like dd or cat or cp or …
or, like in your Mint installation, a tool with a GUI that does the same.

Ventoy is a good choice …

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Yes, it works for that, also for .img that ventoy don’t handle

4

Thank you! Good to know and have yet another tool in the toolbox.

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I remember dd taking ages to copy … but i have a working alternative: etcher

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I would not care about the “speed” of the operation, as long as it produces the desired result.
Manjaro iso is just short of 3 GB - and I don’t care whether it takes 2 minutes or 10 …
Depends on how fast the device can write the data written to it to it’s internal flash memory
and with dd also on the parameters you give it.

cat or cp … work just as well - except for some cases where
apparently
gnome-disk-utility could, for whatever reason, produce bootable devices where the other methods could not
but, also apparently, sometimes does not produce the desired result

strange (to me), those differences …