etcher: The writer process ended unexpectedly, please contact etcher team if issue persists

  • Etcher version: Version 1.5.101 (1.5.101)
  • Operating system and architecture: Mac OS Big Sur 11.0 Beta (20A4300b)
  • Image flashed: tails-amd64-4.8.img
  • Do you see any meaningful error information in the DevTools? Sat Jul 18 2020 16:31:53 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) Flash error ({“image”:“/Users/leach/Desktop/tails-amd64-4.8.img”,“drives”:[{“size”:61505273856,“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/PEG1@1,1/UPSB@0/DSB2@2/XHC2@0”,“mountpoints”:[],“description”:“SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0 Media”,“isUAS”:null}],“driveCount”:1,“uuid”:“9023bce7-339c-47d3-812d-fa006292089b”,“flashInstanceUuid”:“9023bce7-339c-47d3-812d-fa006292089b”,“unmountOnSuccess”:true,“validateWriteOnSuccess”:true,“error”:{“name”:“Error”,“message”:“EPERM: operation not permitted, open ‘/dev/rdisk2’”,“stack”:“Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, open ‘/dev/rdisk2’”,“code”:“EPERM”,“syscall”:“open”,“errno”:-1},“sample”:0.1,“applicationSessionUuid”:“b92bb5a8-3bce-49db-852c-3b6d8ffb7b3a”,“flashingWorkflowUuid”:“a44db8d8-98cf-4ee1-99cc-0085ca43b63b”})

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  • State: closed
  • Created 4 years ago
  • Reactions: 2
  • Comments: 16 (4 by maintainers)

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No problem. You could also try going to “System Preferences” -> “Security & Privacy” -> “Privacy” then adding the application under “Full Disk Access”

this one working for me. using Version 1.5.102

I also face this issue,Please help me and I am not tech guy,Just trying to boot in my flash drive my first Linux distro but it showing error.I also did cmd to boot my flask but it show error so I follow and found this(pic 3) Etcher version: v1.5.102

  • Operating system and architecture: Window 10 pro Education

  • Image flashed: Capture1

Capture

Capturedsa

That is event log Device USBSTOR\Disk&Ven_SanDisk&Prod_Ultra&Rev_1.00\4C530000050304120291&0 was not migrated due to partial or ambiguous match.

Last Device Instance Id: USBSTOR\Disk&Ven_Lexar&Prod_USB_Flash_Drive&Rev_1100\AAP3C4HS4SQA4UCH&0 Class Guid: {4d36e967-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318} Location Path: Migration Rank: 0xF000FC000000F120 Present: false Status: 0xC0000719

No problem. You could also try going to “System Preferences” -> “Security & Privacy” -> “Privacy” then adding the application under “Full Disk Access”

Can you try running balenaEtcher directly with sudo?

Yea I can when I’m off work I’ll let you know if it works