balenaEtcher-1.7.9-x64.AppImage Crashes on MX-18 Linux

Product support
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etcher has never worked on this system–even when MX-18 was the current MX offering.

dmesg:
[11315.003240] traps: balena-etcher-e[14047] trap int3 ip:55f831136cd8 sp:7ffe847f8f00 error:0 in balena-etcher-electron.bin[55f830f0b000+6271000]

inxi -Fxrz:

System:
  Kernel: 4.19.0-1-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 6.3.0
    Desktop: Xfce v: 4.12.3 Distro: MX-18.3_x64 Continuum December 10  2017
    base: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Laptop 15-bs0xx v: Type1ProductConfigId
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HP model: 832C v: 25.26 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Insyde
    v: F.10 date: 05/10/2017
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 17.7 Wh (100.0%) condition: 17.7/31.1 Wh (57.1%)
    volts: 12.4 min: 10.9 model: COMPAL PABAS0241231 status: full
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: Intel Pentium N3710 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Airmont
    rev: 4 cache: L1: 224 KiB L2: 2 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 862 high: 1300 min/max: 480/2560 cores: 1: 480 2: 1058
    3: 610 4: 1300 bogomips: 12800
  Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx
    Integrated Graphics
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen8 bus-ID: 00:02.0
  Device-2: Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink) type: USB
    driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-5.2:5
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.19.2 driver: X: loaded: intel gpu: i915
    resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 405 (Braswell)
    v: 4.5 Mesa 18.2.6 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Series
    High Definition Audio
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.19.0-1-amd64 running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 10.0 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8188EE Wireless Network Adapter
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rtl8188ee v: kernel port: 2000
    bus-ID: 02:00.0
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 1000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 495.48 GiB used: 328.65 GiB (66.3%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: MQ01ABF050 size: 465.76 GiB
  ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Generic model: SD MMC MS PRO
    size: 29.72 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 360.15 GiB used: 328.56 GiB (91.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 256 MiB used: 93.3 MiB (36.5%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 4 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/sda7
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 52.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
  Packages: 2394
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list
    1: deb http://la.mxrepo.com/antix/stretch/ stretch main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
    1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
    1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free
    2: deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
    1: deb http://la.mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ stretch non-free main
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list
Info:
  Processes: 230 Uptime: 3h 17m Memory: 7.7 GiB used: 2.85 GiB (37.0%)
  Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 6.3.0 Shell: Bash v: 4.4.12
  inxi: 3.3.19
2

Hi, sorry to hear you are having trouble with Etcher. Could you please open the development console by pressing Ctrl + Shift + I and paste its contents when the error occurs?

4

Ughh…what development console? There is no response from the system when the Etcher is launched with a double-click on the AppImage file. The only sign that it even ran a little code is the error that’s readable using dmesg.

I booted MX-21.1_x64 Wildflower from a Live USB memory, mounted the MX-18 installed-to-hardrive system’s partition and double-clicked on the AppImage file. It ran normally and successfully flashed an image to an SD card.

The problem has always been an incompatibility with MX-18 (which just reached its EOL so maybe you don’t care) but, as a result, I’ve continued to use dd and I’m not ready to install new OS to this machine yet, despite its EOL!

5

Relevant logging output, if any, is available from the console of DevTools, which you can open by pressing Ctrl+Shift+I or Cmd+Alt+I depending on your platform. So if you are on Windows for example, and have Etcher open, just press Ctrl+Shift+i

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So if you are on Windows for example, and have Etcher open, just press Ctrl+Shift+i

As I stated, I’m not on Windoze and Etcher doesn’t open. It crashes. No process! MX-Linux does not use systemd. It uses sysV init. There might be log somewhere other than what is reported by dmesg.