Catalina 10.15.2 and Etcher 1.5.71

balenaEtcher
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Hi,

I’m on MacOsX Catalina 10.15.2 and Etcher 1.5.71. When I try to flash my USB to install Ubuntu, there is this message :

the writer process ended unexpectedly. Please try again, …

I try this Terminal command but it doesn’t work :

sudo /Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/MacOS/balenaEtcher

Thank you for your help

RJ17

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Hi rj17, and welcome to the forums.

To give us more information, can you paste the logs from the application? You can see them by opening the DevTools Console with cmd + opt + i.

Additionally, you could also try with another image to rule out an issue with the image itself.

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Thank you for your help

Devices: /dev/disk2
/Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Resources/app/node_modules/raven-js/dist/raven.js:58 Umount on success: true
/Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Resources/app/node_modules/raven-js/dist/raven.js:58 Validate on success: true
/Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Resources/app/node_modules/raven-js/dist/raven.js:58 Trim: false
/Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Resources/app/node_modules/raven-js/dist/raven.js:58 Fri Jan 17 2020 23:32:29 GMT+0100 (heure normale d’Europe centrale) Flash error ({“error”:{“name”:“Error”,“message”:“EPERM: operation not permitted, open ‘/dev/rdisk2’”,“stack”:“Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, open ‘/dev/rdisk2’”,“code”:“EPERM”,“syscall”:“open”,“errno”:-1},“applicationSessionUuid”:“8bebe5b1-2d05-4965-8893-5102a06b7202”,“flashingWorkflowUuid”:“5fb261ae-9e09-4d2f-8105-8ae944cf3a40”,“flashInstanceUuid”:“25c19402-6c6c-400e-af39-3789655cd594”,“image”:“/Users/rj17/Downloads/ubuntu-18.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso”,“drives”:[{“size”:8006926336,“isVirtual”:false,“enumerator”:“DiskArbitration”,“logicalBlockSize”:512,“raw”:“/dev/rdisk2”,“error”:null,“isReadOnly”:false,“displayName”:“/dev/disk2”,“blockSize”:512,“isSCSI”:false,“isRemovable”:true,“device”:“/dev/disk2”,“busVersion”:null,“isSystem”:false,“busType”:“USB”,“isCard”:false,“isUSB”:true,“devicePath”:“IODeviceTree:/PCI0@0/XHC1@14”,“mountpoints”:,“description”:“Integral Splash Pink Media”,“isUAS”:null}],“driveCount”:1,“uuid”:“25c19402-6c6c-400e-af39-3789655cd594”,“unmountOnSuccess”:true,“validateWriteOnSuccess”:true,“trim”:false,“sample”:0.1})
/Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Resources/app/node_modules/raven-js/dist/raven.js:58 Finish: 0
/Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Resources/app/node_modules/raven-js/dist/raven.js:58 Flash results {results: {…}, cancelled: false}
/Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Resources/app/node_modules/raven-js/dist/raven.js:58 Terminating IPC server
/Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Resources/app/lib/assets/icon.png:1 GET file:///Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Resources/app/lib/assets/icon.png net::ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND

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Thanks for that. This looks similar to this issue https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/issues/2833 - could you try that workaround and see if that resolves your issue?

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It works !

Under Catalina one must add the application to the security exceptions:
Go to “ System Preferences ” -> “ Security & Privacy ” -> “ Privacy “.
Add the application to the list of “ Full Disk Access “ items, and you should be good to go.
No need to run as sudo.

Thank you so much !