Etcher broken on macOS Catalina #2833

ghost · 2019-06-24T15:04:45Z

Etcher version: 1.5.50
Operating system and architecture: macOS Catalina 10.15 Beta (19A487l)
Image flashed: http://director.downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_full/images/raspbian_full-2019-06-24/2019-06-20-raspbian-buster-full.zip
Do you see any meaningful error information in the DevTools?

{"stack":"Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, open '/Users/nathfreder/Downloads/2019-06-20-raspbian-buster-full.img'","message":"EPERM: operation not permitted, open '/Users/nathfreder/Downloads/2019-06-20-raspbian-buster-full.img'","name":"Error","code":"EPERM","syscall":"open","errno":-1,"image":"2019-06-20-raspbian-buster-full.img"}

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coreyasmith35 · 2019-06-24T19:19:13Z

Having this same issue.

ghost · 2019-06-24T19:23:16Z

Workaround:
Moving your image inside balenaEtcher.app seems to do the trick.
You can do this by selecting "Show Package Contents" on balenaEtcher.app and dragging your image inside of it. Then you can select your image as usual from Finder and the flashing will go ahead. Make sure you select the image inside balenaEtcher.app

willswire · 2019-06-25T18:41:40Z

Workaround listed above works for me as well. I think this error is in part to the recent changes made by apple (see here) regarding disk access permissions. "... apps must now get your permission before directly accessing files in your Documents and Desktop folders, iCloud Drive, and external volumes, so you’re always in control of your data."

CallMeTuesday · 2019-06-26T17:26:28Z

@nathfreder suggestion worked for me as well.

RefineryX · 2019-06-28T17:52:47Z

@nathfreder Suggestion worked for me too! Times like these, I realise there really is no alternative to Etcher!

DG12 · 2019-06-30T17:46:57Z

related to #2843

xcvista · 2019-07-01T11:01:06Z

Maybe Balena should codesign the app with disk access? Apple as been tightening the sandbox.

ghost · 2019-07-01T12:40:33Z

@xcvista That would be a good idea. It's required for Catalina.

cameroncooke · 2019-07-13T20:38:44Z

Above approaches didn't work for me, what did:

sudo /Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/MacOS/balenaEtcher

Hope this helps.

ghost · 2019-07-13T21:05:54Z

@cameroncooke That's way simpler than my approach. 😀

livefeed · 2019-08-01T19:20:56Z

@cameroncooke Thank you, this worked for me.

MiroHibler · 2019-08-10T14:56:47Z

macOS Catalina 10.15 Beta (19A526h) doesn't even allow the app (>= v1.5.51 as far as I know) to start due to "check against the malicious software".

v1.5.33 can start, but sudo hack doesn't work anymore.

ghost · 2019-08-10T21:00:50Z

@micopiira so the app doesn't start at all, or doesn't start with the sudo hack?

thehappydinoa · 2019-08-11T14:36:07Z

Launching with sudo currently works with v1.5.52 on 10.15 Beta (19A512f)

thundron · 2019-08-12T10:42:37Z

For macOS Catalina 10.15 I believe we'll have to notarise the Etcher application package as it'll be a requirement for all applications from 10.15 on, which we're already preparing for

Betabao · 2019-08-21T06:49:11Z

Above approaches didn't work for me, what did:
sudo /Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/MacOS/balenaEtcher
Hope this helps.

this works for me.

kaushaltrivedi · 2019-08-30T08:22:24Z

Above approaches didn't work for me, what did:
sudo /Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/MacOS/balenaEtcher
Hope this helps.

this worked for me!!!

ucdailoi · 2019-09-02T09:38:16Z

Wont work for my mac..... What started out as an attempt to load Home Assistant onto a SD card has become a nightmare of chasing shadows. I have to give up after 3 hours of stuffing around... What now is the question

iglesias294 · 2019-09-11T03:28:22Z

Moving images inside the etcher package not working on Catalina Beta 8. Launching with SUDO does work. Log below:

Sandbox: balenaEtcher Hel(9055) System Policy: deny(1) file-read-data /dev/rdisk2
Violation: System Policy: deny(1) file-read-data /dev/rdisk2
Process: balenaEtcher Hel [9055]
Path: /Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Frameworks/balenaEtcher Helper.app/Contents/MacOS/balenaEtcher Helper
Load Address: 0x1098a9000
Identifier: io.balena.etcher.helper
Version: 1.5.56 (???)
Code Type: x86_64 (Native)
Parent Process: bash [9054]
Responsible: /System/Library/Frameworks/Security.framework/authtrampoline

ghost · 2019-09-17T00:28:52Z

@cameroncooke thank you, launching with SUDO works for me

kapong · 2019-09-18T07:47:24Z

@cameroncooke @kschembri thank you, sudo works for me too

netyrk · 2019-09-20T05:06:41Z

Above approaches didn't work for me, what did:
sudo /Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/MacOS/balenaEtcher
Hope this helps.

10.15 Beta (19A558d)

sudo solution works for me. Other potential solutions provided did not work.

zaltal · 2019-09-20T19:58:43Z

Workaround fixed it for me swell on OS X Catalina. Thanks nathfreder!

Hansaplast · 2019-09-25T11:50:12Z

I bumped into this "issue" while looking for a solution for my own application (ApplePi-Baker).
Since we're all here with the same goal in mind (writing SD cards for RaspberryPi), I thought I'd help out and post my fix.

Under Catalina one must add the application to the security exceptions:
Go to “System Preferences” -> “Security & Privacy” -> “Privacy“.
Add the application to the list of “Full Disk Access“ items, and you should be good to go.
No need to run as sudo.

davidde67 · 2020-10-31T16:11:32Z

Hi Gareth, Yeahhhhh that did not work for me. The only thing that worked is running Xubuntu on this Catalina iMac. Or running Etcher on my Mojave Macbook.

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On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 6:21 AM Gareth Blain ***@***.***> wrote: @zvin <https://github.com/zvin> commented on 6 Nov 2019 This should be fixed in v1.5.61 @zvin <https://github.com/zvin> zvin closed this on 6 Nov 2019 This is still an issue in 1.5.109. It's not asking for permission still. @Hansaplast <https://github.com/Hansaplast> commented on 25 Sep 2019: I bumped into this "issue" while looking for a solution for my own application (ApplePi-Baker). Since we're all here with the same goal in mind (writing SD cards for RaspberryPi), I thought I'd help out and post my fix. Under Catalina one must add the application to the security exceptions: Go to “System Preferences” -> “Security & Privacy” -> “Privacy“. Add the application to the list of “Full Disk Access“ items, and you should be good to go. No need to run as sudo. Following @Hansaplast <https://github.com/Hansaplast>'s instructions to manually add it works. — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#2833 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ARSMRPYRUR7ZOXHPAX6QN3TSNQFM3ANCNFSM4H27SRXQ> .

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GarethBlain · 2020-10-31T16:23:51Z

Hi Gareth, Yeahhhhh that did not work for me. The only thing that worked is running Xubuntu on this Catalina iMac. Or running Etcher on my Mojave Macbook.

The solution I mentioned worked for me. I think it’s just the app isn’t asking for ENOUGH permission. It needs to ask for the ISO’s location as well

lurch · 2020-11-03T14:41:43Z

I think it’s just the app isn’t asking for ENOUGH permission. It needs to ask for the ISO’s location as well

I don't have a Mac myself (and I don't work on Etcher), but if this assumption is correct, it would also correlate with the other MacOS issues where people have said they were able to solve their Etcher problems by dragging their ISO inside their "Package Contents" folder e.g. #2835 (comment)

jessieeeee · 2020-11-10T15:30:08Z

I upgrade to 1.5.100 from 1.4 , It seems to be working well

jwalton · 2020-11-11T21:19:05Z

If you're still running into this: If you go to the Etcher page, and you have Noscript installed, and scroll down to the bottom and download a copy of Etcher, it'll get you 1.5.45, which is ancient. Enable javascript for the page and it'll update the links to the latest version.

cbodonnell · 2020-11-28T23:25:50Z

I was finally able to get this working with the latest version of Etcher (1.5.111) on MacOS Catalina (10.15.3).

I had to first run the application using: sudo /Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/MacOS/balenaEtcher

Then I had to choose "Flash from URL" and provide the url of the hosted iso instead of flashing from a file.

Bcdo · 2020-11-30T17:24:11Z

Workaround:
Moving your image inside balenaEtcher.app seems to do the trick.
You can do this by selecting "Show Package Contents" on balenaEtcher.app and dragging your image inside of it. Then you can select your image as usual from Finder and the flashing will go ahead. Make sure you select the image inside balenaEtcher.app

This, and then running the sudo /Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/MacOS/balenaEtcher did the trick for me, after trying what feels like everything on Catalina

arashnh11 · 2020-12-01T01:12:37Z

This error is back on the latest version of Etcher 1.5.111 and the above solutions didn't work for Catalina 10.15.5
I reverted the version of Etcher to 1.5.52 and sudo trick worked!

graemeblackwood · 2020-12-01T21:00:38Z

This worked for me on Catalina with the latest version of Etcher (1.5.111 downloaded today)

It was the only thing that worked.

#2833 (comment)

JDSWAN66 · 2020-12-02T13:43:52Z

I've tried everything - nothing is working - so frustrating!
Running macOS Big Sur V11.0.1
"Attention - Something went wrong - process ended unexpectedly."

Any help would be appreciated.

Also same issue on PC Win10.

I'm going to give up I think - 5 hours chasing shadows...

lurch · 2020-12-02T14:39:46Z

#3358 (comment) says that it works when you flash directly from URL (instead of a local file).

#3363 (comment) says that Etcher 1.5.109 works where 1.5.111 doesn't.

🤷‍♂️ 🤷‍♂️

graemeblackwood · 2020-12-03T17:59:49Z

I also found that I had to reformat the USB drive to the same file system as the OS I am on. In the case of MacOS, I had to reformat the USB to use Apple's file system, and also ensure the sub-partition was formatted. Only then would Etcher work @JDSWAN66

ideologysec · 2020-12-05T00:48:38Z

This worked for me on Catalina with the latest version of Etcher (1.5.111 downloaded today)

It was the only thing that worked.

#2833 (comment)

Still having to start the application via sudo, even after granting both Full Disk Access, and permitting Etcher to access removable volumes (Big Sur).

lurch · 2020-12-06T15:15:09Z

ping @shawaj

shawaj · 2020-12-06T23:09:33Z

@ideologysec which version are you using? Does this still happen with the latest v1.5.112?

tizzlerino · 2020-12-13T18:01:02Z

Hey, I was having this same issue today.

I was able to get it to write by using the ISO link option instead of writing it from a local file. Hope this works for y'all too.

shawaj · 2020-12-13T19:33:37Z

@tizzlerino have you tried updating to version 1.5.112?

tizzlerino · 2020-12-13T19:48:49Z

Actually, no! I just looked and I'm still using 1.5.111. Thanks for pointing that out, I'll update it and see if it resolves the issue for me.

shawaj · 2020-12-13T20:21:16Z

Thanks @tizzlerino - it seems to have fixed this issue for most people including me! So definitely give it a go 😊

zhuyingda · 2020-12-21T00:37:48Z

@cameroncooke

Above approaches didn't work for me, what did:
sudo /Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/MacOS/balenaEtcher
Hope this helps.

This do solved the problem for me, but I got another EPERM error when I flash the image:

Mon Dec 21 2020 08:31:06 GMT+0800 (CST) Flash error ({"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},"applicationSessionUuid":"bb23765a-e5e9-477a-8366-11e15d58f6c7","flashingWorkflowUuid":"80ed0b3c-fc65-4a2f-be04-4859feb3ba39","flashInstanceUuid":"2ddb47d5-0c08-4fd9-93b9-19829ce9333a","image":"/Applications/balenaEtcher.app/gladys-4.0.0.img","drives":[{"size":63864569856,"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":[{"path":"/Volumes/SANDISK64G","label":"SANDISK64G"}],"description":"SanDisk SDDR-B531 Media","isUAS":null}],"driveCount":1,"uuid":"2ddb47d5-0c08-4fd9-93b9-19829ce9333a","unmountOnSuccess":true,"validateWriteOnSuccess":true,"sample":0.1})

It seems that my sdcard writer plugged in with MacOS usb type-c is not permitted. Does anyone got this error before?

shawaj · 2020-12-21T00:55:27Z

@zhuyingda what version of Etcher are you using?

Could you try updating to version 1.5.113 please

zhuyingda · 2020-12-21T01:02:25Z

@zhuyingda what version of Etcher are you using?

Could you try updating to version 1.5.113 please

MacOS Catalina 10.15.7
Etcher version: 1.5.45

I have opened another issue 3390 for problem of the permission error to /dev/disk2.

zhuyingda · 2020-12-21T01:07:26Z

@zhuyingda what version of Etcher are you using?

Could you try updating to version 1.5.113 please

How can I download the 1.5.113 version for MacOS? Our official website download option is 1.5.45
@shawaj

shawaj · 2020-12-21T01:14:39Z

@zhuyingda it's because your have JavaScript turned off on your browser.

Either turn JavaScript on and try the page again or download from here https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/releases/tag/v1.5.113

shawaj · 2020-12-21T01:15:04Z

Relates to #3387 and #3390

zhuyingda · 2020-12-21T02:48:30Z

@zhuyingda it's because your have JavaScript turned off on your browser.

Either turn JavaScript on and try the page again or download from here https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/releases/tag/v1.5.113

@shawaj Thanks, after updating etcher version to 1.5.113, all of my problem about permission have solved.

And also, the official website latest version is also 1.5.113, my case is because of the network error of the request for fetching latest version.

Anyway, thanks for your help. :) 😊

shawaj · 2020-12-21T02:49:37Z

No problem at all. Glad everything is working now

jacobkaufman · 2021-11-12T16:17:29Z

You just have to enable access to "Files and Folders" in System Preferences>Security and Privacy by checking the box for etcher.

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