Closed hopskipnfall closed 3 months ago
I'm not convinced this is directly a bug in Imager - we shouldn't have the power to bring down the hybrid-kernel design of macOS. I suspect the smoking gun is in the early parts of the report:
SID 1 PTE invalid exception on write of DVA 0x543d000 (TTBR 0 SEG 0x2 PTE 0x50f) ERROR_STATUS 0x81000404 TIME 0x80034650d6 TTE 0 AXI_ID 0" @AppleT6000DART.cpp:1407
Unfortunately I don't have enough knowledge of Apple's SoC to tell you precisely what went wrong, but it appears to be reporting an invalid page table entry while trying to write to a virtual address - all of which would be managed by Apple's kernel drivers, specifically: AppleT6000DART.cpp:1407
Assuming you were comfortable with the information disclosure, I hope you reported the problem to Apple. Can you reproduce this issue using Imager?
Hi Tom, thanks for the response.
Agreed.. I was surprised this was something that could even be caused by Imager, but at the very least by following those steps outlined above using the Imager app I can consistently crash my mbp in the same way at the same place in the flashing process. I just thought I'd report it here in case it's a pattern for other users.
I'll try and reproduce it on my M1 Pro.
Tried to reproduce this on my Mac running 14.4.1 and Imager 1.8.5 and failed.
This isn't entirely surprising, of course - I use Imager on a daily basis and have never seen anything quite like the report you've found. Nor would I expect it to be so reproducible.
Do you also see it with other SDcards, or with other writing applications (eg, Balena Etcher)?
Looks like users of Balena Etcher on macOS have been getting the same error too https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/issues/4215
Based on that report from Balena, which implicates the same Apple kernel driver, I'm inclined to close this as Won't fix
, because there's nothing inside Raspberry Pi Imager to change.
Unfortunately I'm also not aware of a public Apple Radar issue for this problem, so I'd encourage @hopskipnfall to contact Apple for an update.
I have the same error 3 times today during writing or validation reinstall the imager solve that
What happened?
I've tried this a few times and can consistently crash my mac by doing the following:
It takes a few minutes to flash, and after the progressbar goes to 100% it goes back to 0% and the text changes to "確認" (I assume this would be "Verifying" in English). After this starts the mac immediately crashes.
Version
1.8.5 (Default)
What host operating system were you using?
macOS
Host OS Version
14.4
Selected OS
Raspberry Pi OS Lite (32 bit)
Which Raspberry Pi Device are you using?
Raspberry Pi A, B, A+, B+, and Compute Module 1
What kind of storage device are you using?
microSD Card in an internal reader
OS Customisation
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