Three times now , Windows 7 has blue screened , in this strange way (the border color is green??)
Using Etcher Portable. No other problems using ANY other software. The image copies to usb, and verifies 100%, and then without any user interaction , hard crash. Not sure, but it may have been attempting an auto unmount just before the crash (the flash was an image of a Linux build)
And the usb flash works fine when booted.
MULTIPLE_IRP_COMPLETE_REQUESTS seems to be the cause.
This is the first line of the dump as reported by BlueSCreenViewer
The ‘caused by driver’ information seems bogus. I deleted the driver it claimed was the cause the first crash, and it just seems to pick on some random driver to blame. Definitly Etcher causing this .
Hi @gradskool2 , thanks for the report. Does the blue screen also happen if you disable the “auto unmount” feature, you can find it in the settings panel. That will indicate if the unmount code path is causing the crash.
Nope, never seen that kind of bluescreen (although I haven’t used windows in about 10 years). I think some of the etcher engineers should be able to offer more info hopefully.
“This issue occurs because of a race condition that is caused by a reference counting on lease.”
Unfortunately, this is something that we can’t do anything about as it’s how Windows 7 works, which can cause that issue in some specific configurations as you can see here "0x00000044" Stop error on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 - Microsoft Support
The link above also contains a “hotfix” that afaik has been integrated with newer versions of Windows as seen here This hotfix is no longer available - Microsoft Support (found by clicking “Update available” on the first link containing the hotfix)
Generally speaking, a BSOD is hardly Etcher’s fault. We had another report of a user seeing a BSOD here FreeBSD images crash windows.. /suggestion · Issue #1839 · balena-io/etcher · GitHub for example but I admit that situation was different (it happened after flashing with Etcher and connecting the USB), while here it is right during Etcher’s usage, but much like the other one, we can’t do anything about it other than look for the error code (0x00000044) and find anything useful for you (description, explanation, fixes by Windows if there are any, etc)
You say it’s not Etchers fault, but I would think you would look into exactly what’s causing etcher to invoke this error and work around it.
I run 100’s of programs over the years and its very rare to have one cause a blue screen. I get that you are doing ‘low level’ i/o but still…
You see others here are reporting the same issue, which means that you will have quite a few users having their machines blow up with this error. Since in my case , a blue screen is a once a YEAR thing if that , I find it quite disturbing
Don’t want to sound repetitive here, but I guess I need to: did you read the error description we linked above and try the hotfix that, by the way, was released by Microsoft because it’s a Windows 7 issue?
Yes, it’s a pretty old issue; no, it’s not Etcher: it’s a Windows 7 issue as you can see in the error description and related links.
