Similar problem occured in my laptop which is Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal
I wanted to create an startup USB start up image for Debian 6.0.1 with following commands, then it said "An uncaught exception was raised: Invalid version string 'GNU/Linux' " in the end on a pop up message panel.
0 : 2008 : 22:23:55 : ~
<email address hidden>$ parted --version
parted (GNU parted) 2.3
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Similar problem occured in my laptop which is Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal
I wanted to create an startup USB start up image for Debian 6.0.1 with following commands, then it said "An uncaught exception was raised: Invalid version string 'GNU/Linux' " in the end on a pop up message panel.
0 : 2006 : 22:16:19 : ~
<email address hidden>$ usb-creator-gtk
0 : 2007 : 22:17:10 : ~
<email address hidden>$ usb-creator-gtk --version
0.2.23
0 : 2008 : 22:23:55 : ~ gnu.org/ licenses/ gpl.html>.
<email address hidden>$ parted --version
parted (GNU parted) 2.3
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Written by <http:// git.debian. org/?p= parted/ parted. git;a=blob_ plain;f= AUTHORS>.
0 : 2009 : 22:24:02 : ~ 6.0.1-iso- hybrid/ debian- live-6. 0.1-i386- gnome-desktop. iso -n
<email address hidden>$ usb-creator-gtk -i debian/
You can find screen shot in the attachment