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balena-io / etcher

Flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives, safely and easily.
https://etcher.io/
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Error spawning child process #4274

Open cvanelteren opened 2 months ago

cvanelteren commented 2 months ago

When trying to flash the archiso using 2:1.19.21-3 I was faced with the error.

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sukanka commented 2 months ago

Hey, it seems you are using balena-etcher from AUR. If so, please rebuild it and try again.

cvanelteren commented 1 month ago

Hi @sukanka! I tried several versions offered through AUR without success.

With the etcher-git version a different error pops up image With rebuilding it, are you referring to do this directly from release page?

sukanka commented 1 month ago

Hi @sukanka! I tried several versions offered through AUR without success.

  • etcher-bin
  • balena-etcher
  • etcher-ng-bin

With rebuilding it, are you referring to do this directly from release page?

No, I mean rebuild balena-etcher from the source, just clone its AUR repo and run makepkg or extra-x86_64-build in the directory.

Please also make sure you use the same version of nodejs as you build it in the chroot

Perlovka commented 1 month ago

Same is happening with prebuilt app (linux-x64) from the site. As far as I understand, etcher is completely unusable for now. Gazillion bugs opened and zero fixes for more than a month. RIP.

binba2 commented 1 month ago

Getting the same exact thing, from the prebuilt (macos-x64). MacOS 12.7.2.

cvanelteren commented 1 month ago

I used rufus in the mean time to burn the iso. Works like a charm.

Vyacheslav1557 commented 1 month ago

same for me

hwac121 commented 3 weeks ago

Please fix this guys, my favorite and usually dependable burning app is no longer of any use at all.

cvanelteren commented 3 weeks ago

Also @sukanka building from source gave me the same error.

sukanka commented 3 weeks ago

Also @sukanka building from source gave me the same error.

quite strange, I have tested it locally and it works just fine.

z0rg0n commented 2 weeks ago

I get the 'Error spawning child process' error as well.

I've downloaded and ran the following and they all gave me the same problem.

I've tried it with multiple ISO files.

Trying to download balenaEtcher-1.19.21-x64.AppImage and just running that gives a different error (Error: (0 , h.requestMetadata) is not a function) when trying to add an ISO link and .

System info: 6.1.0-23-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.99-1 (2024-07-15)

Keeqler commented 2 weeks ago

On ArchLinux, I got the same error because I didn't have an authentication agent (like polkit-kde-agent) installed and running. Etcher needs this so it can prompt for your password.

z0rg0n commented 2 weeks ago

It looks like polkit-kde-agent is already part of Debian? https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/polkit-kde-agent-1

Anyway if anyone is just looking for a work around I was able to get it the thumbdrive flashed using dd in Debian as showing here: https://linuxize.com/post/create-bootable-debian-10-usb-stick-on-linux/

gitAcceptance commented 2 weeks ago

@cvanelteren did you try running it as administrator?

cvanelteren commented 2 weeks ago

@cvanelteren did you try running it as administrator?

No as it is not supported by electron. Installing the kde-pol-agent did not resolve it.