Echer 1.19.21 "Something went wrong. If it is a compressed image, please check that the archive is not corrupted".

[saulpugg]

• Etcher version:
• Operating system and architecture:
• Image flashed:
• What do you think should have happened:
• What happened:
• Do you see any meaningful error information in the DevTools?

[saulpugg]

The software doesn't allow me to flash the USB stick. It stops showing the message shown on the title.

[gramtech]

Hey, I am having the same issue, I have tried a couple different USB sticks, one of which I have used before with Etcher

Etcher version: 1.19.25
Operating system and architecture: MacOS Somona, Intel 
Image flashed: ubuntu-mate-24.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso 
What happened: Received the following error:

Something went wrong. If it is a compressed image, please check that the archive is not corrupted.
The writer process ended unexpectedly

[SeQwintial]

I have also received the same error as the above comment; in addition, 4 separate windows popped up during the validation process telling me I needed to format the new drives (each one is partitioned from the flash, i'm assuming) before I can use them. Is Windows getting in the way of the final validation?

[juniorr001]

I solved it by running as administrator.
right click on the shortcut > run as administrator.

[SeQwintial]

I solved it by running as administrator. right click on the shortcut > run as administrator.

I have unfortunately tried this, as well as disabling my antivirus/windows defender, and trying it in a different usb slot. Attempting to boot the kobo with the sd card in it also does nothing (in the case that the validation error was irrelevant and the flashing had worked properly)

[2ZZ]

This is happening every time on MacOS for me, I tried 3 different Macbooks, different USB sticks and all on the latest version of Etcher.

[stellar-liyanbin]

I first tried flashing the file in the file.img.xz format, but it failed. Then I tried extracting it to somefile.img first and then flashing it, and that worked, all on MacOS.

[fatso83]

@saulpugg There is absolutely nothing to go by in your bug reports. It's near useless when you don't even bother filling out the template. Like which version, which os, ... how do you expect anyone to be able to work with this?

[2ZZ]

I first tried flashing the file in the file.img.xz format, but it failed. Then I tried extracting it to somefile.img first and then flashing it, and that worked, all on MacOS.

My failures were with .xz as well.

[SeQwintial]

I first tried flashing the file in the file.img.xz format, but it failed. Then I tried extracting it to somefile.img first and then flashing it, and that worked, all on MacOS.

My failures were with .xz as well.

I've solved my problem with this, and it turns out I had to extract the .xz file first before attempting to flash it. Worked on first attempt, Win10.

(Note the "0-N905C file" extension - this was the one that worked)

[MrTechGadget]

I am also experiencing this issue on macOS with 1.19.25 on a .img.xz image that I have used dozens of times with no issues with 1.7.8. Apparently there has been a feature regression.

[4b11b4]

Also having this issue, however
I was able to flash the rpi5 image provided by Balena, so this lends towards me thinking there's an issue with whatever image I'm trying to flash.

update: was successful on etcher v1.19.25
this issue can probably be closed, as
it seems to be either related to the user's environment or is fixed in newer versions

macOS 14.0, etcher 1.19.21

I have an .xz image
(from Luxonis' RPI_OS)
that I decompressed and added a .img extension to
It seemed that selecting the .xz would result in nothing happening in the interface (couldn't proceed to selecting target)

Attempts:

1. Failure
   From dev tools console, it seems I got to 92% then there was an unexpected write failure.
2. Failure
   Verifying 1 device, 100% at 19.90 MB/s (total 19.90 MB/s) eta in 0s with 0 failed devices
   index.js:2 fail event
   index.js:2 {size: 31266438656, isVirtual: false, enumerator: 'DiskArbitration', logicalBlockSize: 512, raw: '/dev/rdisk4', …}blockSize: 512busType: "USB"busVersion: nulldescription: "Mass Storage Device Media"device: "/dev/disk4"devicePath: "IODeviceTree:/arm-io/usb-drd0@2280000/usb-drd0-port-hs@00100000"displayName: "/dev/disk4"enumerator: "DiskArbitration"error: nullisCard: falseisReadOnly: falseisRemovable: trueisSCSI: falseisSystem: falseisUAS: nullisUSB: trueisVirtual: falselogicalBlockSize: 512mountpoints: [{…}]partitionTableType: "mbr"raw: "/dev/rdisk4"size: 31266438656[[Prototype]]: Object
   index.js:2 {name: 'Error', message: 'Unmount failed, invalid drive', stack: 'Error: Unmount failed, invalid drive'}message: "Unmount failed, invalid drive"name: "Error"stack: "Error: Unmount failed, invalid drive"[[Prototype]]: Object
   index.js:2 Starting...
   index.js:2 Starting...
   index.js:2 Flash results {}
   index.js:2 {}
   index.js:2 CHILD: flash done {results: {…}}results: bytesWritten: 7624622592devices: {failed: 1, successful: 0}errors: [Error: Unmount failed, invalid drive]sourceMetadata: {size: 8787493376, name: 'RPi_64bit_OS.img', blocks: Array(13), blockmappedSize: 7624622592}[[Prototype]]: Object[[Prototype]]: Object
   index.js:2 Flash results {results: {…}}results: bytesWritten: 7624622592devices: {failed: 1, successful: 0}errors: [Error: Unmount failed, invalid drive]sourceMetadata: {size: 8787493376, name: 'RPi_64bit_OS.img', blocks: Array(13), blockmappedSize: 7624622592}[[Prototype]]: Object[[Prototype]]: Object
   index.js:2 Starting...
   index.js:2 Error: The writer process ended unexpectedly
   at i (index.js:353:5238)
   at t.createUserError (index.js:353:6464)
   at m (index.js:140:45502)
   at index.js:140:46208
   at L. (index.js:140:42787)
   at L.emit (node:events:518:28)
   at e.exports.H (index.js:2:2317562)
   at e.exports.emit (node:events:518:28)
   at index.js:2:2293382
   at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)

[4b11b4]

one note is that I still get errors after success in the console (v1.91.25)

Verifying 1 device, 100% at 20.00 MB/s (total 20.00 MB/s) eta in 0s with 0 failed devices
index.js:2 CHILD: flash done {results: {…}}results: averageFlashingSpeed: 11454126.53192442bytesWritten: 7624622592devices: {failed: 0, successful: 1}errors: []sourceMetadata: {size: 8787493376, name: 'RPi_64bit_OS.img', blocks: Array(13), blockmappedSize: 7624622592}[[Prototype]]: Object[[Prototype]]: Object
index.js:2 Flash results {results: {…}}cancelled: falseresults: averageFlashingSpeed: 11454126.53192442bytesWritten: 7624622592devices: {failed: 0, successful: 1}errors: []sourceMetadata: {size: 8787493376, name: 'RPi_64bit_OS.img', blocks: Array(13), blockmappedSize: 7624622592}[[Prototype]]: Objectskip: false[[Prototype]]: Object
index.js:2 got results {results: {…}}cancelled: falseresults: averageFlashingSpeed: 11454126.53192442bytesWritten: 7624622592devices: {failed: 0, successful: 1}errors: []sourceMetadata: {size: 8787493376, name: 'RPi_64bit_OS.img', blocks: Array(13), blockmappedSize: 7624622592}[[Prototype]]: Objectskip: false[[Prototype]]: Objectconstructor: ƒ Object()hasOwnProperty: ƒ hasOwnProperty()isPrototypeOf: ƒ isPrototypeOf()propertyIsEnumerable: ƒ propertyIsEnumerable()toLocaleString: ƒ toLocaleString()toString: ƒ toString()valueOf: ƒ valueOf()defineGetter: ƒ defineGetter()defineSetter: ƒ defineSetter()lookupGetter: ƒ lookupGetter()lookupSetter: ƒ lookupSetter()proto: (...)get proto: ƒ proto()set proto: ƒ proto()
index.js:2 Starting...
index.js:2 removed flashing flag
GET file:///Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/.webpack/renderer/main_window/media/icon.png net::ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND
index.js:2 Amplitude Logger [Warn]: {code: 0, error: "Status 'unknown' provided for 2 events"}
index.js:2 Amplitude Logger [Warn]: {code: 0, error: "Status 'unknown' provided for 2 events"}
index.js:2 Amplitude Logger [Warn]: {code: 0, error: "Status 'unknown' provided for 2 events"}
index.js:2 Amplitude Logger [Warn]: {code: 0, error: "Status 'unknown' provided for 2 events"}
index.js:2 Amplitude Logger [Warn]: {code: 0, error: "Status 'unknown' provided for 2 events"}
index.js:2 Amplitude Logger [Error]: Event rejected due to exceeded retry count
index.js:2 Amplitude Logger [Error]: Event rejected due to exceeded retry count