usb creator gtk does not wipe xfs formateed usb sticks.

Bug #1497427 reported by Lyn Perrine
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Bug Description

To reproduce run usb creator gtk on a usb stick formatted with xfs with try to wipe it with usb-creator-gtk and try to wipe a disk.
I get this error message.
org.freedesktop.DBus.Python.GLib.Error: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/service.py", line 707, in _message_cb
    retval = candidate_method(self, *args, **keywords)
  File "/usr/share/usb-creator/usb-creator-helper", line 285, in Format
    partition = table.call_create_partition_sync(0, size, '0x0c', '', no_options, None)
GLib.Error: udisks-error-quark: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Error.Failed: Error wiping newly created partition /dev/sde1: Command-line `wipefs -a "/dev/sde1"' exited with non-zero exit status 1: wipefs: error: /dev/sde1: probing initialization failed: No such file or directory
 (0)

usb-creator-gtk:
  Installed: 0.2.67
  Candidate: 0.2.67
  Version table:
 *** 0.2.67 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Description: Ubuntu Wily Werewolf (development branch)
Release: 15.10

I expected usb-creator-gtk to wipe the usb stick. Instead it could not wipe the xfs formatted usb stick.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: usb-creator-gtk 0.2.67
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-10.11-generic 4.2.0
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-10-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.18.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.365
CurrentDesktop: LXDE
Date: Fri Sep 18 19:23:09 2015
LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Alpha amd64 (20150918)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: usb-creator
UDisksDump: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'udisks'
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Lyn Perrine (walterorlin) wrote :
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Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa) wrote :

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1497427

tags: added: iso-testing
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