V 1.5.57 The writer process ended unexpectedly. Please try again

Looks like this is an ongoing issue (for some folks). I’d not seen it running v 1.5.5. I took some screen shots to record what I was seeing. Some look familiar. Let me know if you need something else-

This is the result…

Have other images, but can’t post them here at this point. In summary, verified the checksum on the download (2019-09-26-raspbian-buster-lite.zip), formatted the sdcard and ran chkdsk without issue, and started Etcher with those 2 specified.

Cheers, and Thanks-
Bob

I am having the same problem and had to revert to WIN32 DiskImager which meant unpacking the Image file.

Hi,
Thank you for reporting this. I pinged the etcher developers to have a look at this. They surely will have more questions to pin point this problem.

Hi there, could you please also open the DevTools Console (ctrl + shift + i) and check if you have any error message you can paste here? You can also try running as admin, it helps in some situations

I have the same problem on my iMac OS is 10.15 kernel is 19.0.0
from the dev tools

Version = 1.5.57, Type = dmg

/Applications/balena…js/dist/raven.js:58 Wed Oct 09 2019 07:54:19 GMT-0800 (AKDT) Application start ({“packageType”:“dmg”,“version”:“1.5.57”,“applicationSessionUuid”:“a701aa41-4aa5-45e6-a9b9-98cec170919f”,“sample”:0.1})

/Applications/balena…js/dist/raven.js:58 Wed Oct 09 2019 07:54:23 GMT-0800 (AKDT) SafeWebview loaded ({“event”:{“fromCache”:false,“headers”:{“Accept”:“text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,/;q=0.8”,“Upgrade-Insecure-Requests”:“1”,“User-Agent”:“Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) balena-etcher/1.5.57 Chrome/66.0.3359.181 Electron/3.1.9 Safari/537.36”},“id”:11,“method”:“GET”,“referrer”:"",“resourceType”:“mainFrame”,“responseHeaders”:{“Accept-Ranges”:[“bytes”],“Cache-Control”:[“public, max-age=0”],“Connection”:[“keep-alive”],“Content-Encoding”:[“gzip”],“Content-Type”:[“text/html; charset=UTF-8”],“Date”:[“Wed, 09 Oct 2019 15:54:22 GMT”],“Etag”:["W/“3c7c7-16d86f44350"”],“Last-Modified”:[“Tue, 01 Oct 2019 10:53:38 GMT”],“Server”:[“Cowboy”],“Transfer-Encoding”:[“chunked”],“Vary”:[“Accept-Encoding”],“Via”:[“1.1 vegur, 1.1 vegur”]},“statusCode”:200,“statusLine”:“HTTP/1.1 200 OK”,“timestamp”:1570636463046.087,“url”:“https://www.balena.io/etcher/success-banner/?etcher-version=1.5.57&api-version=2&optOutAnalytics=false"},“applicationSessionUuid”:“a701aa41-4aa5-45e6-a9b9-98cec170919f”,“flashingWorkflowUuid”:“0ace5991-1afe-45ba-adca-519d34a82e1b”,"sample”:0.1})

/Applications/balena…js/dist/raven.js:58 Wed Oct 09 2019 07:54:33 GMT-0800 (AKDT) Open image selector ({“applicationSessionUuid”:“a701aa41-4aa5-45e6-a9b9-98cec170919f”,“flashingWorkflowUuid”:“0ace5991-1afe-45ba-adca-519d34a82e1b”,“sample”:0.1})

/Applications/balena…js/dist/raven.js:58 Wed Oct 09 2019 07:54:45 GMT-0800 (AKDT) Select image ({“image”:{“size”:6999999488,“name”:“kali-linux-2019.3a-rpi3-nexmon-64.img”,“hasMBR”:true,“partitions”:[{“offset”:512,“size”:128000000,“type”:12,“index”:1},{“offset”:128000512,“size”:6870999552,“type”:131,“index”:2}],“path”:"/Volumes/data/Programming/kali-linux-2019.3a-rpi3-nexmon-64.img",“extension”:“img”,“logo”:false,“blockMap”:false},“applicationSessionUuid”:“a701aa41-4aa5-45e6-a9b9-98cec170919f”,“flashingWorkflowUuid”:“0ace5991-1afe-45ba-adca-519d34a82e1b”,“sample”:0.1})

/Applications/balena…js/dist/raven.js:58 Wed Oct 09 2019 07:54:47 GMT-0800 (AKDT) Flashing 0 devices, 0% at null MB/s (total null MB/s) eta in undefineds with 0 failed devices

/Applications/balena…js/dist/raven.js:58 Wed Oct 09 2019 07:54:47 GMT-0800 (AKDT) Flash ({“image”:"/Volumes/data/Programming/kali-linux-2019.3a-rpi3-nexmon-64.img",“drives”:[{“size”:15811477504,“isVirtual”:false,“enumerator”:“DiskArbitration”,“logicalBlockSize”:512,“raw”:"/dev/rdisk3",“error”:null,“isReadOnly”:false,“displayName”:"/dev/disk3",“blockSize”:512,“isSCSI”:false,“isRemovable”:true,“device”:"/dev/disk3",“busVersion”:null,“isSystem”:false,“busType”:“USB”,“isCard”:false,“isUSB”:true,“devicePath”:“IODeviceTree:/PCI0@0/XHC1@14”,“mountpoints”:,“description”:“Generic STORAGE DEVICE Media”,“isUAS”:null}],“driveCount”:1,“uuid”:“3b713f21-6815-4103-b88e-969348daf6d8”,“status”:“started”,“flashInstanceUuid”:“3b713f21-6815-4103-b88e-969348daf6d8”,“unmountOnSuccess”:true,“validateWriteOnSuccess”:true,“trim”:false,“applicationSessionUuid”:“a701aa41-4aa5-45e6-a9b9-98cec170919f”,“flashingWorkflowUuid”:“0ace5991-1afe-45ba-adca-519d34a82e1b”,“sample”:0.1})

/Applications/balena…js/dist/raven.js:58 Elevating command: /Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Frameworks/balenaEtcher Helper.app/Contents/MacOS/balenaEtcher Helper /Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar

/Applications/balena…js/dist/raven.js:58 Wed Oct 09 2019 07:54:48 GMT-0800 (AKDT) SafeWebview loaded ({“event”:{“fromCache”:false,“headers”:{“Accept”:“text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,/;q=0.8”,“Upgrade-Insecure-Requests”:“1”,“User-Agent”:“Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) balena-etcher/1.5.57 Chrome/66.0.3359.181 Electron/3.1.9 Safari/537.36”},“id”:28,“method”:“GET”,“referrer”:"",“resourceType”:“mainFrame”,“responseHeaders”:{“access-control-allow-origin”:["*"],“age”:[“527”],“cache-control”:[“max-age=600”],“cf-cache-status”:[“DYNAMIC”],“cf-ray”:[“52318902e95ce35a-SEA”],“content-encoding”:[“br”],“content-type”:[“text/html; charset=utf-8”],“date”:[“Wed, 09 Oct 2019 15:54:48 GMT”],“expect-ct”:[“max-age=604800, report-uri=“https://report-uri.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/beacon/expect-ct””],“expires”:[“Wed, 09 Oct 2019 01:37:07 GMT”],“last-modified”:[“Mon, 07 Oct 2019 12:49:06 GMT”],“server”:[“cloudflare”],“status”:[“200”],“vary”:[“Accept-Encoding”],“via”:[“1.1 varnish”],“x-cache”:[“HIT”],“x-cache-hits”:[“2”],“x-fastly-request-id”:[“63559c44045fe8c552ff9d157e389bb088691fe2”],“x-github-request-id”:[“3E82:2D52:18E9EFD:1A7EE86:5D9D376B”],“x-proxy-cache”:[“MISS”],“x-served-by”:[“cache-sea1020-SEA”],“x-timer”:[“S1570636488.181641,VS0,VE0”]},“statusCode”:200,“statusLine”:“HTTP/1.1 200”,“timestamp”:1570636488246.6829,“url”:“https://assets.balena.io/etcher-featured/index.html?etcher-version=1.5.57&api-version=2&optOutAnalytics=false"},“applicationSessionUuid”:“a701aa41-4aa5-45e6-a9b9-98cec170919f”,“flashingWorkflowUuid”:“0ace5991-1afe-45ba-adca-519d34a82e1b”,"sample”:0.1})

/Applications/balena…js/dist/raven.js:58 Wed Oct 09 2019 07:54:48 GMT-0800 (AKDT) Flashing 0 devices, 0% at null MB/s (total null MB/s) eta in undefineds with 0 failed devices

/Applications/balena…js/dist/raven.js:58 Successfully connected to IPC server: etcher-server-2156, socket root /var/folders/j9/lj8fp2tn1931wf6c8tf8hb2w0000gn/T/

/Applications/balena…js/dist/raven.js:58 Image: /Volumes/data/Programming/kali-linux-2019.3a-rpi3-nexmon-64.img

/Applications/balena…js/dist/raven.js:58 Devices: /dev/disk3

/Applications/balena…js/dist/raven.js:58 Umount on success: true

/Applications/balena…js/dist/raven.js:58 Validate on success: true

/Applications/balena…js/dist/raven.js:58 Trim: false

/Applications/balena…js/dist/raven.js:58 Wed Oct 09 2019 07:54:55 GMT-0800 (AKDT) Flash error ({“error”:{“name”:“Error”,“message”:“EPERM: operation not permitted, open ‘/dev/rdisk3’”,“stack”:“Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, open ‘/dev/rdisk3’”,“code”:“EPERM”,“syscall”:“open”,“errno”:-1},“applicationSessionUuid”:“a701aa41-4aa5-45e6-a9b9-98cec170919f”,“flashingWorkflowUuid”:“0ace5991-1afe-45ba-adca-519d34a82e1b”,“flashInstanceUuid”:“3b713f21-6815-4103-b88e-969348daf6d8”,“image”:"/Volumes/data/Programming/kali-linux-2019.3a-rpi3-nexmon-64.img",“drives”:[{“size”:15811477504,“isVirtual”:false,“enumerator”:“DiskArbitration”,“logicalBlockSize”:512,“raw”:"/dev/rdisk3",“error”:null,“isReadOnly”:false,“displayName”:"/dev/disk3",“blockSize”:512,“isSCSI”:false,“isRemovable”:true,“device”:"/dev/disk3",“busVersion”:null,“isSystem”:false,“busType”:“USB”,“isCard”:false,“isUSB”:true,“devicePath”:“IODeviceTree:/PCI0@0/XHC1@14”,“mountpoints”:,“description”:“Generic STORAGE DEVICE Media”,“isUAS”:null}],“driveCount”:1,“uuid”:“3b713f21-6815-4103-b88e-969348daf6d8”,“unmountOnSuccess”:true,“validateWriteOnSuccess”:true,“trim”:false,“sample”:0.1})

/Applications/balena…js/dist/raven.js:58 Finish: 0

/Applications/balena…js/dist/raven.js:58 Flash results

  1. Object

/Applications/balena…js/dist/raven.js:58 Terminating IPC server

/Applications/balena…js/dist/raven.js:58 Wed Oct 09 2019 07:54:55 GMT-0800 (AKDT) Open modal ({“name”:“warning”,“applicationSessionUuid”:“a701aa41-4aa5-45e6-a9b9-98cec170919f”,“flashingWorkflowUuid”:“0ace5991-1afe-45ba-adca-519d34a82e1b”,“sample”:0.1})

Thought I could reply to the email, but it bounced…

… and I can only attach 1 item to a post at this point … more to follow …

Here’s a console log from an attempt as Admin. This is from 1.5.5 which I tried reverting to.
20191009_Etcher_1570629410368.log (12.0 KB)

As an aside, when I started the app, it told me a New Update was available, but it’s not the newest version…
Etcher_Startup

Note the Reply-To in the header…
20191009_Balena_Email_Reply_To

(Refers to a post above )

FYI - Today I tried suspending Kaspersky and rerunning (as Admin) … same result.

Same result here, Mac OS 10.15. The disk is fine in Disk Utility. Here’s the console results, if that helps.
Thanks in advance

Version = 1.5.59, Type = dmg
/Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/raven-js/dist/raven.js:58 Mon Oct 14 2019 20:40:33 GMT-0500 (CDT) Application start ({“packageType”:“dmg”,“version”:“1.5.59”,“applicationSessionUuid”:“f7c77fc9-5203-41b0-b088-0c1a6263a9dc”,“sample”:0.1})
/Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/raven-js/dist/raven.js:58 Mon Oct 14 2019 20:40:34 GMT-0500 (CDT) SafeWebview loaded ({“event”:{“fromCache”:false,“headers”:{“Accept”:“text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,/;q=0.8”,“Upgrade-Insecure-Requests”:“1”,“User-Agent”:“Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) balena-etcher/1.5.59 Chrome/66.0.3359.181 Electron/3.1.9 Safari/537.36”},“id”:11,“method”:“GET”,“referrer”:"",“resourceType”:“mainFrame”,“responseHeaders”:{“Accept-Ranges”:[“bytes”],“Cache-Control”:[“public, max-age=0”],“Connection”:[“keep-alive”],“Content-Encoding”:[“gzip”],“Content-Type”:[“text/html; charset=UTF-8”],“Date”:[“Tue, 15 Oct 2019 01:40:33 GMT”],“Etag”:[“W/“3c7c7-16dc9f7db58"”],“Last-Modified”:[“Mon, 14 Oct 2019 11:12:07 GMT”],“Server”:[“Cowboy”],“Transfer-Encoding”:[“chunked”],“Vary”:[“Accept-Encoding”],“Via”:[“1.1 vegur, 1.1 vegur”]},“statusCode”:200,“statusLine”:“HTTP/1.1 200 OK”,“timestamp”:1571103634071.834,“url”:“https://www.balena.io/etcher/success-banner/?etcher-version=1.5.59&api-version=2&optOutAnalytics=false"},“applicationSessionUuid”:“f7c77fc9-5203-41b0-b088-0c1a6263a9dc”,“flashingWorkflowUuid”:“162d5cb3-ff31-44f2-af28-269b895c581d”,"sample”:0.1})
/Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/raven-js/dist/raven.js:58 Mon Oct 14 2019 20:40:35 GMT-0500 (CDT) Open image selector ({“applicationSessionUuid”:“f7c77fc9-5203-41b0-b088-0c1a6263a9dc”,“flashingWorkflowUuid”:“162d5cb3-ff31-44f2-af28-269b895c581d”,“sample”:0.1})
/Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/raven-js/dist/raven.js:58 Mon Oct 14 2019 20:40:51 GMT-0500 (CDT) Select image ({“image”:{“size”:2187330560,“name”:“2018-11-13-octopi-stretch-lite-0.16.0.img”,“hasMBR”:true,“partitions”:[{“offset”:4194304,“size”:46005248,“type”:12,“index”:1},{“offset”:50331648,“size”:2136998912,“type”:131,“index”:2}],“path”:”/Users/Nigro/Temporary Downloads/2018-11-13-octopi-stretch-lite-0.16.0.img",“extension”:“img”,“logo”:false,“blockMap”:false},“applicationSessionUuid”:“f7c77fc9-5203-41b0-b088-0c1a6263a9dc”,“flashingWorkflowUuid”:“162d5cb3-ff31-44f2-af28-269b895c581d”,“sample”:0.1})
/Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/raven-js/dist/raven.js:58 Mon Oct 14 2019 20:40:53 GMT-0500 (CDT) Open modal ({“name”:“drive-selector”,“applicationSessionUuid”:“f7c77fc9-5203-41b0-b088-0c1a6263a9dc”,“flashingWorkflowUuid”:“162d5cb3-ff31-44f2-af28-269b895c581d”,“sample”:0.1})
/Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/raven-js/dist/raven.js:58 Mon Oct 14 2019 20:40:54 GMT-0500 (CDT) Toggle drive ({“drive”:{“size”:31016878080,“isVirtual”:false,“enumerator”:“DiskArbitration”,“logicalBlockSize”:512,“raw”:"/dev/rdisk4",“error”:null,“isReadOnly”:false,“displayName”:"/dev/disk4",“blockSize”:512,“isSCSI”:false,“isRemovable”:true,“device”:"/dev/disk4",“busVersion”:null,“isSystem”:false,“busType”:“USB”,“isCard”:false,“isUSB”:true,“devicePath”:“IODeviceTree:/”,“mountpoints”:,“description”:“Generic SD/MMC Media”,“isUAS”:null},“previouslySelected”:false,“applicationSessionUuid”:“f7c77fc9-5203-41b0-b088-0c1a6263a9dc”,“flashingWorkflowUuid”:“162d5cb3-ff31-44f2-af28-269b895c581d”,“sample”:0.1})
/Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/raven-js/dist/raven.js:58 Mon Oct 14 2019 20:40:55 GMT-0500 (CDT) Modal accepted ({“name”:“drive-selector”,“applicationSessionUuid”:“f7c77fc9-5203-41b0-b088-0c1a6263a9dc”,“flashingWorkflowUuid”:“162d5cb3-ff31-44f2-af28-269b895c581d”,“sample”:0.1})
/Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/raven-js/dist/raven.js:58 Mon Oct 14 2019 20:40:56 GMT-0500 (CDT) Flashing 0 devices, 0% at null MB/s (total null MB/s) eta in undefineds with 0 failed devices
/Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/raven-js/dist/raven.js:58 Mon Oct 14 2019 20:40:56 GMT-0500 (CDT) Flash ({“image”:"/Users/Nigro/Temporary Downloads/2018-11-13-octopi-stretch-lite-0.16.0.img",“drives”:[{“size”:31016878080,“isVirtual”:false,“enumerator”:“DiskArbitration”,“logicalBlockSize”:512,“raw”:"/dev/rdisk4",“error”:null,“isReadOnly”:false,“displayName”:"/dev/disk4",“blockSize”:512,“isSCSI”:false,“isRemovable”:true,“device”:"/dev/disk4",“busVersion”:null,“isSystem”:false,“busType”:“USB”,“isCard”:false,“isUSB”:true,“devicePath”:“IODeviceTree:/”,“mountpoints”:,“description”:“Generic SD/MMC Media”,“isUAS”:null}],“driveCount”:1,“uuid”:“4e22b7fe-60d1-4b27-a3de-c306bec5cc40”,“status”:“started”,“flashInstanceUuid”:“4e22b7fe-60d1-4b27-a3de-c306bec5cc40”,“unmountOnSuccess”:true,“validateWriteOnSuccess”:true,“trim”:false,“applicationSessionUuid”:“f7c77fc9-5203-41b0-b088-0c1a6263a9dc”,“flashingWorkflowUuid”:“162d5cb3-ff31-44f2-af28-269b895c581d”,“sample”:0.1})
/Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/raven-js/dist/raven.js:58 Elevating command: /Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Frameworks/balenaEtcher Helper.app/Contents/MacOS/balenaEtcher Helper /Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar
/Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/raven-js/dist/raven.js:58 Mon Oct 14 2019 20:40:56 GMT-0500 (CDT) SafeWebview loaded ({“event”:{“fromCache”:false,“headers”:{“Accept”:“text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,/;q=0.8”,“Upgrade-Insecure-Requests”:“1”,“User-Agent”:“Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) balena-etcher/1.5.59 Chrome/66.0.3359.181 Electron/3.1.9 Safari/537.36”},“id”:29,“method”:“GET”,“referrer”:"",“resourceType”:“mainFrame”,“responseHeaders”:{“access-control-allow-origin”:["*"],“age”:[“483”],“cache-control”:[“max-age=600”],“cf-cache-status”:[“DYNAMIC”],“cf-ray”:[“525e167d9c1f9dad-ORD”],“content-encoding”:[“br”],“content-type”:[“text/html; charset=utf-8”],“date”:[“Tue, 15 Oct 2019 01:40:56 GMT”],“expect-ct”:[“max-age=604800, report-uri=“https://report-uri.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/beacon/expect-ct””],“expires”:[“Mon, 14 Oct 2019 14:00:40 GMT”],“last-modified”:[“Mon, 14 Oct 2019 06:00:16 GMT”],“server”:[“cloudflare”],“status”:[“200”],“vary”:[“Accept-Encoding”],“via”:[“1.1 varnish”],“x-cache”:[“HIT”],“x-cache-hits”:[“1”],“x-fastly-request-id”:[“833566bde525bc2d9f26654be9d85ce4b11cfe16”],“x-github-request-id”:[“FB7A:26D0:491943:5D4CA4:5DA47D8D”],“x-proxy-cache”:[“HIT”],“x-served-by”:[“cache-mdw17345-MDW”],“x-timer”:[“S1571103657.616591,VS0,VE1”]},“statusCode”:200,“statusLine”:“HTTP/1.1 200”,“timestamp”:1571103656627.872,“url”:“https://assets.balena.io/etcher-featured/index.html?etcher-version=1.5.59&api-version=2&optOutAnalytics=false"},“applicationSessionUuid”:“f7c77fc9-5203-41b0-b088-0c1a6263a9dc”,“flashingWorkflowUuid”:“162d5cb3-ff31-44f2-af28-269b895c581d”,"sample”:0.1})
/Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/raven-js/dist/raven.js:58 Mon Oct 14 2019 20:40:56 GMT-0500 (CDT) Flashing 0 devices, 0% at null MB/s (total null MB/s) eta in undefineds with 0 failed devices
/Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/raven-js/dist/raven.js:58 Successfully connected to IPC server: etcher-server-14854, socket root /var/folders/3g/14hbpyys4j5brj720k8vdv8w0000gn/T/
/Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/raven-js/dist/raven.js:58 Image: /Users/xxxx/Temporary Downloads/2018-11-13-octopi-stretch-lite-0.16.0.img
/Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/raven-js/dist/raven.js:58 Devices: /dev/disk4
/Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/raven-js/dist/raven.js:58 Umount on success: true
/Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/raven-js/dist/raven.js:58 Validate on success: true
/Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/raven-js/dist/raven.js:58 Trim: false
/Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/raven-js/dist/raven.js:58 Mon Oct 14 2019 20:41:05 GMT-0500 (CDT) Flash error ({“error”:{“name”:“Error”,“message”:“EPERM: operation not permitted, open ‘/dev/rdisk4’”,“stack”:“Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, open ‘/dev/rdisk4’”,“code”:“EPERM”,“syscall”:“open”,“errno”:-1},“applicationSessionUuid”:“f7c77fc9-5203-41b0-b088-0c1a6263a9dc”,“flashingWorkflowUuid”:“162d5cb3-ff31-44f2-af28-269b895c581d”,“flashInstanceUuid”:“4e22b7fe-60d1-4b27-a3de-c306bec5cc40”,“image”:"/Users/xxxx/Temporary Downloads/2018-11-13-octopi-stretch-lite-0.16.0.img",“drives”:[{“size”:31016878080,“isVirtual”:false,“enumerator”:“DiskArbitration”,“logicalBlockSize”:512,“raw”:"/dev/rdisk4",“error”:null,“isReadOnly”:false,“displayName”:"/dev/disk4",“blockSize”:512,“isSCSI”:false,“isRemovable”:true,“device”:"/dev/disk4",“busVersion”:null,“isSystem”:false,“busType”:“USB”,“isCard”:false,“isUSB”:true,“devicePath”:“IODeviceTree:/”,“mountpoints”:,“description”:“Generic SD/MMC Media”,“isUAS”:null}],“driveCount”:1,“uuid”:“4e22b7fe-60d1-4b27-a3de-c306bec5cc40”,“unmountOnSuccess”:true,“validateWriteOnSuccess”:true,“trim”:false,“sample”:0.1})
/Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/raven-js/dist/raven.js:58 Finish: 0
/Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/raven-js/dist/raven.js:58 Flash results Object
/Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/raven-js/dist/raven.js:58 Terminating IPC server
/Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/raven-js/dist/raven.js:58 Mon Oct 14 2019 20:41:05 GMT-0500 (CDT) Open modal ({“name”:“warning”,“applicationSessionUuid”:“f7c77fc9-5203-41b0-b088-0c1a6263a9dc”,“flashingWorkflowUuid”:“162d5cb3-ff31-44f2-af28-269b895c581d”,“sample”:0.1})

Can you try suggestions from this thread? https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/issues/2020

The only thing that worked was using sudo with v.1.2.1

@pjn670 @billboe - please take a look here https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/issues/2833#issuecomment-511152047 and see if that helps :+1:

@radilly take a look here https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/issues/1693#issuecomment-394089173 and see if that helps :+1:

The link helped me understand a little more, but the command line command did not work - “command not found.” I’m holding off on macOS Catalina, so I’m still running 10.14.6 and it has the problem, with 1.5.57, and I tried also 1.5.1 - same thing.

@seth which command line did you run?
Some more work is still required for Catalina support.

I used: " sudo /Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/MacOS/balenaEtcher "

I’m not using macOS Catalina - keeping Mojave until things get fixed.

Also, perhaps coincidentally, the USB drive I flashed using balenaEtcher 1.5.57 was no longer working to boot a live Linux session. I re-burned the USB thumb drive in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and it worked fine. I also tried it with a saved version of 1.5.1 - same thing.)

@seth If you start typing at the command line and use the TAB key, it will autocomplete for you providing the application is where you think it is. The only reason you would get command not found is if Etcher isn’t installed in that location and the path you’ve pasted or typed isn’t correct.

Thanks. I must be misunderstanding the purpose of the CL entry, then. Does it launch differently from the CL than it does from the GUI? It launched fine from the GUI - it just didn’t complete once launched.