etcher: error: please check that the archive is not corrupted. every iso i try

Etcher version: 1.5.51
Operating system and architecture: ubuntu 19.04 64bit
Image flashed: every manjaro iso i can find
Do you see any meaningful error information in the DevTools? /tmp/.mount_balenaD4…js/dist/raven.js:58 {"stack":"Error: The elevated process died unexpectedly\n at Object.exports.createError (/tmp/.mount_balenaD4uKeB/resources/app.asar/lib/shared/errors.js:253:17)\n at Object.exports.createUserError (/tmp/.mount_balenaD4uKeB/resources/app.asar/lib/shared/errors.js:292:18)\n at Bluebird.using (/tmp/.mount_balenaD4uKeB/resources/app.asar/lib/shared/permissions.js:207:22)","message":"The elevated process died unexpectedly","description":"The process error code was 126","report":false,"image":"manjaro-architect-18.0.2-stable-x86_64.iso"}

every iso i try to flash i get an error saying “something went wrong. if it is a compressed image, please check that the archive is not corrupted.” i have tried manjaro architect iso, manjaro i3 iso, manjaro kde iso, etc. every one gives this error.

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State: closed
Created 5 years ago
Reactions: 11
Comments: 37 (9 by maintainers)

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I had the same problem. The solution was to unmount all the extra volumes.

diskutil list

/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *31.3 GB    disk2
   1:             Windows_FAT_32 NO NAME                 31.3 GB    disk2s1

diskutil unmount disk2s1

Etcher should work now.

Optional:

Skip etcher and just use dd:

sudo dd if=/path/to/your/disk.img of=/dev/rdisk2 bs=1m diskutil eject /dev/disk2

+20

iMerica on Oct 11, 2019

I had this issue as well on Mac OS. I solved it by running etcher from the terminal with following command: sudo /Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/MacOS/balenaEtcher

tthebst on Apr 17, 2020

Same issue with the appimage on Ubuntu 19.10. It works when I install the DEB package and use that. The appimage version still does not work after installing the DEB package.

zingbretsen on Dec 7, 2019

To solve the problem, just right-click the software (i.e. balenaEtcher) and run it as administrator on Windows PC.

pngimbwa on Nov 6, 2020

Have you tried downloading the newest BalenaEtcher? That fixed my issue! Hope this helps.

AeonFox on Jan 13, 2020

To parrot pngimbwa, run Etcher as administrator.

cautious1 on Nov 6, 2020

For Mac users (catalina): to resolve this issue just install app with brew like:

brew install balenaEtcher

and run app from Application folder without sudo\admin\etc

kyxap on Nov 12, 2020

I had this issue as well on Mac OS. I solved it by running etcher from the terminal with following command: sudo /Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/MacOS/balenaEtcher

this is the correct solution

wzJun1 on Sep 19, 2020

Used the deb package instead the AppImage and everything works fine 👍

vincegre on May 13, 2020

I’ve reproduced this on Ubuntu 19.10 and can confirm that the AppImage versions >= 1.5.66 have this issue so likely introduced in 1.5.66 as successfully tested on 1.5.65 and lower.

The current deb as noted above works.

garethtdavies on Dec 9, 2019

[garethtdavies] This issue has attached support thread https://jel.ly.fish/#/support-thread~aa55d22e-a11b-4818-a3a5-dd84ab7c6b81

balena-ci on Dec 9, 2019

Same problem with Ubuntu 19.04: Appimage fails to flash caliming image is corrupted, same image using DEB installation works like a charm

pczekalski on Nov 15, 2019

The solution was to unmount all the extra volumes.

AFAIK, Etcher should be doing that automatically?

lurch on Oct 11, 2019

@zvin @thundron https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Exit-Status.html says If a command is found but is not executable, the return status is 126.

lurch on Oct 23, 2019