Etcher won't open after big Arch update

balenaEtcher
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Etcher won’t run after big Arch update. I get this:

/usr/bin/etcher: line 3: /usr/bin/balena-etcher-electron.bin: No such file or directory

I tried changing line 3 in /usr/bin/etcher and I changed the name of /usr/bin/balena-etcher-electron to /usr/bin/balena-etcher-electron.bin but neither of those worked. (I changed them back after)

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Hi @Frozear,

Welcome to the forum!

Thank you for reporting this. Could you check if there is a file /usr/bin/balena-etcher-electron.bin or /usr/bin/balena-etcher-electron. If there is such a file it might fail to load a dynamic library. Could you also run ldd /usr/bin/balena-etcher-electron or ( ldd /usr/bin/balena-etcher-electron.bin) depending on which file exists on your system?

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Ok. Here you go.

[ryley@shop bin]$ find /usr/bin -iname '*etcher*'
/usr/bin/etcher-electron
/usr/bin/etcher
/usr/bin/balena-etcher-electron
/usr/bin/ldns-keyfetcher
[ryley@shop bin]$ ldd /usr/bin/balena-etcher-electron
    	not a dynamic executable
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How did you install etcher?

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With pacman. I also uninstalled/reinstalled before I posted

pacman -S etcher

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Have you been able to reproduce this? Maybe I broke something on my system.

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Hi, could you please confirm what exact distro and version you are using? Is it really Arch Linux or Manjaro Linux for example?
Also, it seems to be a problem with the distribution packaging. If you download etcher from https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/releases/download/v1.5.70/balena-etcher-electron-1.5.70-linux-ia32.zip, uncompress it and run the AppImage manually it will run fine.

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Okay Thanks.

I’m running manjaro-i3.

If there’s else something you want me to test let me know. I’m happy to help.

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Here you go in case you need this:

[ryley@shop ~]$ uname -a
Linux shop 4.19.88-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Dec 5 11:04:44 UTC 2019 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[ryley@shop ~]$ pacman -Ss etcher
community/etcher 1.5.67-1 [installed]
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Thanks, we will check this out!

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I am having the exact same issue. I add the details.

10:51:24 ~ 127 ➜ etcher
/usr/bin/etcher: line 3: /usr/bin/balena-etcher-electron.bin: No such file or directory

10:49:43 ~ ➜ uname -a
Linux mj-aritz 4.14.155-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Nov 21 10:34:25 UTC 2019 x86_64 GNU/Linux
10:49:47 ~ ➜ pacman -Ss etcher
community/etcher 1.5.67-1 [installed]
    Burn images to SD cards & USB drives, safe & easy

10:52:22 ~ ➜ find /usr/bin -iname '*etcher*'    
/usr/bin/etcher
/usr/bin/balena-etcher-electron
/usr/bin/ldns-keyfetcher
/usr/bin/etcher-electron
10:52:26 ~ ➜ ldd /usr/bin/balena-etcher-electron
	not a dynamic executable
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Hi. Unfortunately, we have no control over the Manjaro pkg. You could try contacting the package maintainer directly or download an etcher release from GitHub and running the AppImage. Let us know if that works.