Upgraded from 12.6.9 to 12.7.1 on ubuntu 20.04 and no longer able to make persistent ubuntu usb stick for ubuntu 21.04 fails to boot

Bug #1954999 reported by Peter
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Bug Description

I had made numerous bootable drives using 12.6.9 on ubuntu 20.04 for ubuntu 21.04 but attempting the same now after updating to 12.7.1 results in a usb stick that fails to boot.

The ubuntu disk iso used is the following
"ubuntu-21.04-desktop-amd64.iso"

Both micro sd card used tested in the usb adapter were working with teh 12.6.9 version.

The last message shown on the computer that fails to boot is.
"integrity: Problem loading X.509 certificate -65"

But from what I understand this is a normal error when booting Ubuntu and can be ignored.
Infact I think the error even flashes on the screen on the bootable drives I still have that work that I made with 12.6.9.

I really need to downgrade to 12.6.9 (for this and all related packages) as 12.7.1 isn't working for making persistent bootable usb disks for me, but this and the other mkusb related PPA's don't have the last working version, they only has the current version.

```
apt-cache showpkg mkusb
Package: mkusb
Versions:
12.7.1-1ubuntu1 (/var/lib/apt/lists/ppa.launchpad.net_mkusb_ppa_ubuntu_dists_focal_main_binary-amd64_Packages) (/var/lib/apt/lists/ppa.launchpad.net_mkusb_ppa_ubuntu_dists_focal_main_binary-i386_Packages) (/var/lib/dpkg/status)
 Description Language:
                 File: /var/lib/apt/lists/ppa.launchpad.net_mkusb_ppa_ubuntu_dists_focal_main_binary-amd64_Packages
                  MD5: 06649dbfbdf851ca68ba1b78a9b467eb
 Description Language: en
                 File: /var/lib/apt/lists/ppa.launchpad.net_mkusb_ppa_ubuntu_dists_focal_main_i18n_Translation-en
                  MD5: 06649dbfbdf851ca68ba1b78a9b467eb

Reverse Depends:
  mkusb-common,mkusb 12.5.7
  mkusb-common,mkusb 12.5.7
Dependencies:
12.7.1-1ubuntu1 - gdisk (0 (null)) pv (0 (null)) xterm (0 (null)) wmctrl (0 (null)) zenity (0 (null)) rsync (0 (null)) mkusb-common (2 12.7.1) guidus (2 12.7.1) mkusb-nox (0 (null)) mkusb-plug (2 12.7.1) usb-pack-efi (2 12.7.1)
Provides:
12.7.1-1ubuntu1 -
Reverse Provides:
```

Is there anyway you could re-upload so I can make bootable persistent usb sticks again.

If you require any further information let me know, Thankyou.

Peter (2vphs)
description: updated
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Peter (2vphs) wrote :

I just tried a fifth time, this time programming the micro sd card in the usb adapter I was ultimately going to use it in directly. I think the issue may have been I originally used my internal notebook sd card reader/writer to program the microsd. I'm going to close this bug report for now unless I encounter it again and have more details.

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sudodus (nio-wiklund) wrote (last edit ):

@ Peter S,

Thanks for the heads up. I understand that you solved the problem, at least temporarily.

mkusb *should* work also with internal card readers (I have tested that during the development), but may have to do it again.

The changes in mkusb-dus between 12.6.9 and 12.7.1 should not affect the problem. Except some output in the zenity windows, it should only affect making persistent live drives of very old debian versions.

-o-

A maybe relevant issue is that of a 'tired' card or USB pendrive, written to several times. I have had cases when such a drive did not work with mkusb.

When a card or pendrive is getting very slow (less that half of its original write speed), you can use mkusb to 'wipe the whole device', overwrite it with zeros, which can restore the speed to almost the original one. But don't do it too often because of the wear of memory cells.

-o-

Anyway, please ring the bell, if you get this problem again.

sudodus (nio-wiklund)
Changed in mkusb:
status: New → Incomplete
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Peter (2vphs) wrote :

@sudodus, thanks so much for replying. Yeah I haven't run into the issue again. I think the issue may have been that I was loading the sd cards with data to 95% capacity before the first boot, but I can't be sure. loading them to only 90% they now seem to be working fine. Perhaps they have low over provisioning and were having trouble performing the necessary write operations in a timely manner cause things to timeout. With 10% free they seem to be booting fine though. Thanks again for maintaining this great tool!

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