Flash Error on Every Drive I've Used

balenaEtcher
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I’m trying to flash the latest version of tails onto a flash drive or an SD card, neither has worked thus far. After reinstalling Etcher multiple times, downloading the image multiple times, and searching the forums to find nothing useful, I get the same error message.

"Attention

Something went wrong. If it is a compressed image, please check that the archive is not corrupted.

spawn
D:(file location here)"

Help would be appreciated, disappointed that such a simple tool doesn’t do what it was designed for.

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Hey there,

Welcome to the forums.

Can you please provide some more details please:

  1. Which operating system are you using etcher on?
  2. which version of etcher are you using?
  3. Which tails OS image did you download? There are 3 variants: for usb sticks, dvd and virtual machines

Thanks for confirming

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  1. Currently using Windows 10
  2. Etcher V 1.5.101
  3. I downloaded the USB Stick image for Tails
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Hi again, thanks for the useful information!

In order to better diagnose the problem. Could you perform the following operations and let us know the results?

  • Could you verify the downloaded usb image using the process described in the tails website. This can help us discard any actual corruption problems.
  • Could you retry flashing the image with the Etcher devtools panel open (Control + Alt + I) and share with us any error messages that appear in the console? This might help us have more details on the underlying cause of the error.

Thanks again for your help

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I am also trying to install the latest tails on a hard drive and have the same issue. I’d appreciate any help.

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Hey, welcome to the forums!

Can you share some more info about your setup. What’s is your operating system and what version of Etcher are you running ?

To save some more time can you read Felipe’s comment and let us know the results.

Thanks!

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Thanks for the reply,
Windows 10, etcher is 1.5.103

I am not sure where felipes comment is.
I tried to retry flashing the image with the Etcher devtools panel open (Control + Alt + I) but nothing happens when I hit control alt l when etcher is up.

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My tails usb img file is successfully verified but when I try to use etcher it comes up

Attention
Something went wrong.if it is a compressed image, please check that the archive is not corrupted.

ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘C:\Users\ etc

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It sounds like you answered the questions Felipe (pipex) asked anyways :stuck_out_tongue:

I would say we should try again to get the console log which most likely contains the error. If CTRL + ALT + I doesn’t work you could also try hitting F12. Google has some documentation on how to open dev tools: https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/.

Once you get that open, click on the console tab and try to flash your image. You will most likely see some errors logged. Share those with us here.

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Hi, sorry for the slow reply. this is a copy of the recent console log.

Elevating command: C:\Users\SEAN’S~1\AppData\Local\Temp\1ljqM6wujJceYpKKiZJHn7xa9BS\balenaEtcher.exe C:\Users\SEAN’S~1\AppData\Local\Temp\1ljqM6wujJceYpKKiZJHn7xa9BS\resources\app\generated\child-writer.js

gui.js:56886 Terminating IPC server

gui.js:56886 Flash results

  1. Object

gui.js:56886 Sun Jan 03 2021 00:51:38 GMT+0000 (Greenwich Mean Time) Write failed ({“image”:{“size”:1177550848,“name”:“tails-amd64-4.14 (2).img”,“hasMBR”:true,“partitions”:[{“offset”:1048576,“size”:1175453696,“type”:“C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B”,“guid”:“34BF027A-8001-4B93-8243-1F9D3DCE7DE7”,“name”:“Tails”,“index”:1}],“extension”:“img”,“path”:“C:\Users\Sean’s Laptop!\Downloads\tails-amd64-4.14 (2).img”},“drives”:[{“size”:31090278400,“isVirtual”:false,“enumerator”:“USBSTOR”,“logicalBlockSize”:512,“raw”:"\\.\PhysicalDrive1",“error”:null,“isReadOnly”:false,“displayName”:“S:\”,“blockSize”:512,“isSCSI”:false,“isRemovable”:true,“device”:"\\.\PhysicalDrive1",“busVersion”:“2.0”,“isSystem”:false,“busType”:“USB”,“isCard”:false,“isUSB”:true,“devicePath”:null,“mountpoints”:[{“path”:“S:\”}],“description”:“Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 USB Device”,“isUAS”:false,“partitionTableType”:“mbr”}],“driveCount”:1,“uuid”:“10dcbf97-aacb-4258-b173-2e6c06b22e04”,“status”:“failed”,“flashInstanceUuid”:“10dcbf97-aacb-4258-b173-2e6c06b22e04”,“error”:{“errno”:-4058,“code”:“ENOENT”,“syscall”:“open”,“path”:“C:\Users\SEANS~1\AppData\Local\Temp\balena-etcher-electron–11088-c2a0mOBdD3Hd-.cmd”},“sample”:0.1,“applicationSessionUuid”:“092241e3-9c82-469e-a8de-025bdf7f0319”,“flashingWorkflowUuid”:“e1cb769b-81b4-4ba3-afa7-3a9e21243520”})

gui.js:56886 {“stack”:“Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘C:\Users\SEANS~1\AppData\Local\Temp\balena-etcher-electron–11088-c2a0mOBdD3Hd-.cmd’”,“message”:“ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘C:\Users\SEANS~1\AppData\Local\Temp\balena-etcher-electron–11088-c2a0mOBdD3Hd-.cmd’”,“errno”:-4058,“code”:“ENOENT”,“syscall”:“open”,“path”:“balena-etcher-electron–11088-c2a0mOBdD3Hd-.cmd”,“image”:“tails-amd64-4.14 (2).img”}

gui.js:6038 0 devices, 0% at 0.00 MB/s (total 0.00 MB/s) with 0 failed devices

gui.js:56886 Sun Jan 03 2021 00:51:42 GMT+0000 (Greenwich Mean Time) Restart after failure ({“sample”:0.1,“applicationSessionUuid”:“092241e3-9c82-469e-a8de-025bdf7f0319”,“flashingWorkflowUuid”:“e1cb769b-81b4-4ba3-afa7-3a9e21243520”})

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I also can’t flash any of my USB sticks (from 8gb up to 64Gb) with Batocera using Etcher … it decompresses and get to 100% … waits for a bit, then I get a Flash Failed message. I have redownloaded the Batocera ISO 3 times now and used 4 different USB sticks.

Running Win 10 and latest Etcher and Batocera

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Hi David, is the issue limited to Batocera? did you try to flash another image? such as balenaOS or raspbian, just to test your etcher setup?

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also, as suggested up thread by Miguel, can you please grab the console output?

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Hello @Sean1

Could you please try with the latest Etcher version (1.5.113) ?

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Hi Guys, I am facing the same issue. After downloading Tails and Echter I get the an error message “…something went wrong…User did not get grant persmission…” while flashing on usb.
Im am using
Windows 10 Home
Echter 1.5.113 (also tried the portable version and to run it as admin)
Tails vor USB

Many thanks
J

Here is the error message I get:

index.css:1 Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND
electron/js2c/renderer_init.js:13 (electron) The remote module is deprecated. Use GitHub - electron/remote: Bridge JavaScript objects from the main process to the renderer process in Electron. instead.
log @ electron/js2c/renderer_init.js:13
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Version = 1.7.8, Type = portable
gui.js:46 Wed Oct 12 2022 19:21:38 GMT+0200 (Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit) Application start ({“packageType”:“portable”,“version”:“1.7.8”,“sample”:0.1,“applicationSessionUuid”:“e90386f1-dbf6-4554-9dea-04ae7bb82ca2”,“flashingWorkflowUuid”:“170574cf-03fc-48ce-aaad-53fd7db42e09”})
gui.js:46 [Axios v1.7.8] Transitional option ‘clarifyTimeoutError’ has been deprecated since v1.0.0 and will be removed in the near future
console. @ gui.js:46
gui.js:46 [Axios v1.7.8] Transitional option ‘forcedJSONParsing’ has been deprecated since v1.0.0 and will be removed in the near future
console. @ gui.js:46
gui.js:46 [Axios v1.7.8] Transitional option ‘silentJSONParsing’ has been deprecated since v1.0.0 and will be removed in the near future
console. @ gui.js:46
gui.js:46 Wed Oct 12 2022 19:22:04 GMT+0200 (Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit) Open image selector ({“sample”:0.1,“applicationSessionUuid”:“e90386f1-dbf6-4554-9dea-04ae7bb82ca2”,“flashingWorkflowUuid”:“170574cf-03fc-48ce-aaad-53fd7db42e09”})
gui.js:46 Wed Oct 12 2022 19:22:09 GMT+0200 (Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit) Select image ({“image”:{“size”:1309671424,“name”:“tails-amd64-5.4.img”,“hasMBR”:true,“partitions”:[{“offset”:1048576,“size”:1307574272,“type”:“C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B”,“guid”:“34BF027A-8001-4B93-8243-1F9D3DCE7DE7”,“name”:“Tails”,“index”:1}],“extension”:“img”,“path”:“C:\Users\Familie\Documents\Tails\tails-amd64-5.4.img”,“logo”:false,“blockMap”:false},“sample”:0.1,“applicationSessionUuid”:“e90386f1-dbf6-4554-9dea-04ae7bb82ca2”,“flashingWorkflowUuid”:“170574cf-03fc-48ce-aaad-53fd7db42e09”})
gui.js:46 Wed Oct 12 2022 19:22:17 GMT+0200 (Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit) Flash ({“image”:{“size”:1309671424,“name”:“tails-amd64-5.4.img”,“hasMBR”:true,“partitions”:[{“offset”:1048576,“size”:1307574272,“type”:“C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B”,“guid”:“34BF027A-8001-4B93-8243-1F9D3DCE7DE7”,“name”:“Tails”,“index”:1}],“extension”:“img”,“path”:“C:\Users\Familie\Documents\Tails\tails-amd64-5.4.img”},“drives”:[{“size”:61530439680,“isVirtual”:false,“enumerator”:“USBSTOR”,“logicalBlockSize”:512,“raw”:“\\.\PhysicalDrive1”,“error”:null,“isReadOnly”:false,“displayName”:“E:\”,“blockSize”:512,“isSCSI”:false,“isRemovable”:true,“device”:“\\.\PhysicalDrive1”,“busVersion”:“2.0”,“isSystem”:false,“busType”:“USB”,“isCard”:false,“isUSB”:true,“devicePath”:null,“mountpoints”:[{“path”:“E:\”}],“description”:" USB SanDisk 3.2Gen1 USB Device",“isUAS”:false,“partitionTableType”:“mbr”}],“driveCount”:1,“uuid”:“bed906e7-3de3-486f-bdec-f224a031cc42”,“status”:“started”,“flashInstanceUuid”:“bed906e7-3de3-486f-bdec-f224a031cc42”,“sample”:0.1,“applicationSessionUuid”:“e90386f1-dbf6-4554-9dea-04ae7bb82ca2”,“flashingWorkflowUuid”:“170574cf-03fc-48ce-aaad-53fd7db42e09”})
gui.js:46 Elevating command: C:\Users\Familie\AppData\Local\Temp\26ZDwweoEftoYLfXXExMqtMd7tA\balenaEtcher.exe C:\Users\Familie\AppData\Local\Temp\26ZDwweoEftoYLfXXExMqtMd7tA\resources\app\generated\child-writer.js
gui.js:35 0 devices, 0% at 0.00 MB/s (total 0.00 MB/s) with 0 failed devices
gui.js:46 Terminating IPC server
gui.js:46 Flash results {}
gui.js:46 Wed Oct 12 2022 19:22:18 GMT+0200 (Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit) Write failed ({“image”:{“size”:1309671424,“name”:“tails-amd64-5.4.img”,“hasMBR”:true,“partitions”:[{“offset”:1048576,“size”:1307574272,“type”:“C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B”,“guid”:“34BF027A-8001-4B93-8243-1F9D3DCE7DE7”,“name”:“Tails”,“index”:1}],“extension”:“img”,“path”:“C:\Users\Familie\Documents\Tails\tails-amd64-5.4.img”},“drives”:[{“size”:61530439680,“isVirtual”:false,“enumerator”:“USBSTOR”,“logicalBlockSize”:512,“raw”:“\\.\PhysicalDrive1”,“error”:null,“isReadOnly”:false,“displayName”:“E:\”,“blockSize”:512,“isSCSI”:false,“isRemovable”:true,“device”:“\\.\PhysicalDrive1”,“busVersion”:“2.0”,“isSystem”:false,“busType”:“USB”,“isCard”:false,“isUSB”:true,“devicePath”:null,“mountpoints”:[{“path”:“E:\”}],“description”:" USB SanDisk 3.2Gen1 USB Device",“isUAS”:false,“partitionTableType”:“mbr”}],“driveCount”:1,“uuid”:“bed906e7-3de3-486f-bdec-f224a031cc42”,“status”:“failed”,“flashInstanceUuid”:“bed906e7-3de3-486f-bdec-f224a031cc42”,“error”:{},“sample”:0.1,“applicationSessionUuid”:“e90386f1-dbf6-4554-9dea-04ae7bb82ca2”,“flashingWorkflowUuid”:“170574cf-03fc-48ce-aaad-53fd7db42e09”})
gui.js:46 {“stack”:“Error: User did not grant permission.\n at file:///C%3A/Users/Familie/AppData/Local/Temp/26ZDwweoEftoYLfXXExMqtMd7tA/resources/app/generated/gui.js:46:702552\n at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:324:5)\n at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:315:20)\n at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:1048:16)\n at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:288:5)”,“message”:“User did not grant permission.”,“image”:“tails-amd64-5.4.img”}