"Something went wrong. If it is a compressed image, please check that the archive is not corrupted." trying to make an ubuntu bootable usb

balenaEtcher
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I’m using mac and have formatted my usb to fat32 with guid partition. here is the error I’m getting in the dev tools

Flash results {results: {…}, cancelled: false, skip: false}
gui.js:56894 Sun Nov 29 2020 10:29:02 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time) Write failed ({“image”:{“size”:2785017856,“name”:“ubuntu-20.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso”,“hasMBR”:true,“partitions”:[{“offset”:2568904704,“size”:4063232,“type”:239,“index”:1}],“extension”:“iso”,“path”:"/Users/jaceschrader/Downloads/ubuntu-20.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso"},“drives”:[{“size”:4018143232,“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”:[{“path”:"/Volumes/UNTITLED",“label”:“UNTITLED”}],“description”:“pny USB 2.0 FD Media”,“isUAS”:null,“partitionTableType”:“gpt”}],“driveCount”:1,“uuid”:“a92a93dd-cdc8-49a2-a221-c102bfa18597”,“status”:“failed”,“flashInstanceUuid”:“a92a93dd-cdc8-49a2-a221-c102bfa18597”,“unmountOnSuccess”:true,“error”:{“description”:“Please try again, and contact the Etcher team if the problem persists”,“report”:false},“sample”:0.1,“applicationSessionUuid”:“559eee3c-038a-4437-932d-661c7c29615e”,“flashingWorkflowUuid”:“7b70ca5e-1834-41bc-8532-f7b5393854af”})
gui.js:56894 {“stack”:“Error: The writer process ended unexpectedly\n at createError (file:///Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Resources/app/generated/gui.js:71076:23)\n at createUserError (file:///Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Resources/app/generated/gui.js:71087:16)\n at Server. (file:///Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Resources/app/generated/gui.js:87446:28)”,“message”:“The writer process ended unexpectedly”,“description”:“Please try again, and contact the Etcher team if the problem persists”,“report”:false,“image”:“ubuntu-20.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso”}

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Hello @jace

Does it work if you retry flashing ?

We have found a similar issue on mac that should be fixed in the next release (1.5.112) that should be out this week.

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Hello,

this should be fixed in Etcher 1.5.112

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Ran into the same problem today, using Etcher 1.5.112. I’m working on a Windows 10 machine and also trying to make an Ubuntu bootable USB with the same error message.

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Hi, welcome to the forums!

Could you retry and share the console output when the error happens? You can open the developer console using Ctrl+Shift+I or going to the View menu > Toggle Developer Tools.

The original reported error was on a OS X machine so I would like to confirm this is the same error to pass all relevant information to our engineers.

Thank you
Felipe