Open shinji-s opened 6 years ago
I have a similar issue without GUI.
This is my USB drive:
# fdisk -l /dev/sde
Disk /dev/sde: 29.45 GiB, 31611420672 bytes, 61741056 sectors
Disk model: Transcend 32GB
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x4089a39b
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sde1 * 2048 52430847 52428800 25G c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sde2 52430848 61741055 9310208 4.5G c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
sde1 should be for all the ISOs, sde2 should be used as extra space or persistence. I'm running gentoo so i had to install the dependencies and run from the multiboot-9.2.0 folder.
This is what happens:
# python3 ./multibootusb -s /dev/sde1
Using python version 3.7.9 (default, Oct 30 2020, 15:26:17)
[GCC 9.2.0] on platform Linux-4.19.82-gentoo-x86_64-AMD_Ryzen_7_1800X_Eight-Core_Processor-with-gentoo-2.7
Running multibootusb version 9.2.0 from source...
Starting multibootusb GUI...
Cleaning old multibootusb directory...
Syslinux exist in multibootusb directory...
Using pyudev for detecting USB drives...
/dev/sde
/dev/sde1
/dev/sde2
Selected device /dev/sde
Warning: The driver descriptor says the physical block size is 2048 bytes, but Linux says it is 512 bytes.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/user/app/multibootusb-9.2.0/scripts/mbusb_gui.py", line 162, in onComboChange
usb.gpt_device(config.usb_disk)
File "/home/user/app/multibootusb-9.2.0/scripts/usb.py", line 403, in gpt_device
_cmd_out = subprocess.check_output("parted " + dev_name + " print", shell=True)
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/subprocess.py", line 411, in check_output
**kwargs).stdout
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/subprocess.py", line 490, in run
stdout, stderr = process.communicate(input, timeout=timeout)
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/subprocess.py", line 951, in communicate
stdout = self.stdout.read()
KeyboardInterrupt
Aborted
I assume syslinux is required, i haven't tried an actual ISO. The GUI ran once, but then stopped running. Should i format my USB differently?
The gptmbr.bin hack described here didn't work for me.
I've also reformatted the disk and got a bit further:
# fdisk -l /dev/sde
Disk /dev/sde: 29.45 GiB, 31611420672 bytes, 61741056 sectors
Disk model: Transcend 32GB
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x61077338
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sde1 * 2048 61741055 61739008 29.5G c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
When trying to install syslinux:
python3 ./multibootusb -c -s -t /dev/sde1
Using python version 3.7.9 (default, Oct 30 2020, 15:26:17)
[GCC 9.2.0] on platform Linux-4.19.82-gentoo-x86_64-AMD_Ryzen_7_1800X_Eight-Core_Processor-with-gentoo-2.7
Device /dev/sde1 is a MBR disk...
Initiating process for installing syslinux on /dev/sde1
Selected target device is : "/dev/sde1"
Syslinux install directory : "multibootusb"
Please confirm the option.
Y/y/Yes/yes/YES or N/n/No/no/NO
Please enter the option listed above : y
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/user/app/multibootusb-9.2.0/scripts/usb.py", line 481, in details
details = details_udev(usb_disk_part)
File "/home/user/app/multibootusb-9.2.0/scripts/usb.py", line 269, in details_udev
mount_point = UDISKS.mount(usb_disk_part) or ""
File "/home/user/app/multibootusb-9.2.0/scripts/udisks.py", line 145, in mount
dbus_interface=self.FILESYSTEM))
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 147, in __call__
**keywords)
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 653, in call_blocking
message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such interface “org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Filesystem” on object at path /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sde1
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./multibootusb", line 204, in <module>
cli_install_syslinux()
File "/home/user/app/multibootusb-9.2.0/scripts/mbusb_cli.py", line 187, in cli_install_syslinux
if syslinux.syslinux_default(config.usb_disk) is True:
File "/home/user/app/multibootusb-9.2.0/scripts/syslinux.py", line 101, in syslinux_default
usb_details = usb.details(usb_disk)
File "/home/user/app/multibootusb-9.2.0/scripts/usb.py", line 483, in details
details = details_udisks2(usb_disk_part)
File "/home/user/app/multibootusb-9.2.0/scripts/usb.py", line 324, in details_udisks2
mount_point = bd.Get('org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Filesystem', 'MountPoints', dbus_interface='org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties')
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 147, in __call__
**keywords)
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 653, in call_blocking
message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs: No such interface “org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Filesystem”
I do have dev-python/pyudev installed on my system.
How to reproduce.
Forcefully terminating mbusb and hitting ^C on the console yields the following traceback.