Etcher stuck on “Starting”

[dzemper7]

• Etcher version: 1.7.9
• Operating system and architecture: Windows 10 Pro x64
• Image flashed: tails-amd64-4.29.img
• Do you see any meaningful error information in the DevTools? It won't open with the Ctrl+Shift+I command. I have tried multiple computers, ran as admin, reinstall, different versions.

[IohannRabeson]

I'm experiencing that as well on OSX (10.15.7)

[GrantBirki]

Same here

[alanzo10]

I got the same problem but with MacOS and tails 5.0

[mcraa]

Since many of you have the "same" problem, can someone detail, what does it mean "stuck on starting"?

• by "dev tools not able to open" I could guess the etcher window is not even showing up so you can't open devtools
• by flashing a particular image I could guess it is stalling after you pressed the "Flash" button

The bulletpoints are there in the issue template for a reason. Please include the necessary information, with guessing no issue can be solved, moreover it takes the developer's time.

[mxpxgx]

Same happened to me (stalling after I click the Flash button) with v1.7.9 and macOS 10.15.7. I downloaded the previous version (v1.7.8) and it worked.

[rgabbo]

I experience same issue in Windows 10 using version 1.7.9. In my case Etcher is stalling after I press the "Flash" button and DevTools are shown.

Here are logs from DevTools console:

Logs

Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND electron/js2c/renderer_init.js:13 (electron) The remote module is deprecated. Use https://github.com/electron/remote instead. log @ electron/js2c/renderer_init.js:13 gui.js:364 _____ _ _ | | | | | | | | | | | ___ _ __ | || / | ' \ / _ \ '| | || || (| | | | / | _/ ____|| ||___||

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Version = 1.7.9, Type = portable gui.js:46 Fri Jun 03 2022 15:56:33 GMT+0200 (Ora legale dell’Europa centrale) Application start ({"packageType":"portable","version":"1.7.9","sample":0.1,"applicationSessionUuid":"0c6c136b-a385-43c6-b728-e8d0c37fa86e","flashingWorkflowUuid":"01ecdc65-5826-429d-9576-aadcfe1c7975"}) gui.js:46 [Axios v1.7.9] Transitional option 'clarifyTimeoutError' has been deprecated since v1.0.0 and will be removed in the near future console. @ gui.js:46 gui.js:46 [Axios v1.7.9] Transitional option 'forcedJSONParsing' has been deprecated since v1.0.0 and will be removed in the near future console. @ gui.js:46 gui.js:46 [Axios v1.7.9] Transitional option 'silentJSONParsing' has been deprecated since v1.0.0 and will be removed in the near future console. @ gui.js:46 gui.js:46 Fri Jun 03 2022 15:56:44 GMT+0200 (Ora legale dell’Europa centrale) Open image selector ({"sample":0.1,"applicationSessionUuid":"0c6c136b-a385-43c6-b728-e8d0c37fa86e","flashingWorkflowUuid":"01ecdc65-5826-429d-9576-aadcfe1c7975"}) gui.js:46 Fri Jun 03 2022 15:56:52 GMT+0200 (Ora legale dell’Europa centrale) Select image ({"image":{"isCompressed":true,"name":"batocera-rpi4-34-20220523.img","size":3759144960,"compressedSize":1450357029,"isSizeEstimated":true,"hasMBR":true,"partitions":[{"offset":1048576,"size":3221225472,"type":12,"index":1},{"offset":3222274048,"size":536870912,"type":131,"index":2}],"extension":"gz","path":"C:\Users\Win10\Downloads\batocera-rpi4-34-20220523.img.gz","logo":false,"blockMap":false},"sample":0.1,"applicationSessionUuid":"0c6c136b-a385-43c6-b728-e8d0c37fa86e","flashingWorkflowUuid":"01ecdc65-5826-429d-9576-aadcfe1c7975"}) gui.js:46 Fri Jun 03 2022 15:56:59 GMT+0200 (Ora legale dell’Europa centrale) Flash ({"image":{"size":3759144960,"compressedSize":1450357029,"hasMBR":true,"path":"C:\Users\Win10\Downloads\batocera-rpi4-34-20220523.img.gz","partitions":[{"offset":1048576,"size":3221225472,"type":12,"index":1},{"offset":3222274048,"size":536870912,"type":131,"index":2}],"isCompressed":true,"name":"batocera-rpi4-34-20220523.img","isSizeEstimated":true,"extension":"gz"},"drives":[{"size":62534975488,"isVirtual":false,"enumerator":"USBSTOR","logicalBlockSize":512,"raw":"\\.\PhysicalDrive3","error":null,"isReadOnly":false,"displayName":"H:\, MMC Card Reader USB Device","isUAS":false,"partitionTableType":"mbr"}],"driveCount":1,"uuid":"1e5270db-e72c-4e48-9d88-88dcc53c8a77","status":"started","flashInstanceUuid":"1e5270db-e72c-4e48-9d88-88dcc53c8a77","sample":0.1,"applicationSessionUuid":"0c6c136b-a385-43c6-b728-e8d0c37fa86e","flashingWorkflowUuid":"01ecdc65-5826-429d-9576-aadcfe1c7975"}) gui.js:46 Elevating command: C:\Users\Win10\AppData\Local\Temp\289fnmVLvs5lKv6KeexfZQYqj1c\balenaEtcher.exe C:\Users\Win10\AppData\Local\Temp\289fnmVLvs5lKv6KeexfZQYqj1c\resources\app\generated\child-writer.js gui.js:35 0 devices, 0% at 0.00 MB/s (total 0.00 MB/s) with 0 failed devices gui.js:46 Fri Jun 03 2022 15:57:01 GMT+0200 (Ora legale dell’Europa centrale) SafeWebview loaded ({"event":{"id":1,"url":"https://assets.balena.io/etcher-featured/index.html?borderRight=false&darkBackground=true&etcher-version=1.7.9&api-version=2&optOutAnalytics=true","method":"GET","timestamp":1654264621077.811,"resourceType":"mainFrame","ip":"2606:4700:3034::6815:1d95","fromCache":false,"statusLine":"HTTP/1.1 200","statusCode":200,"responseHeaders":{"access-control-allow-origin":["*"],"age":["184"],"alt-svc":["h3=":443"; ma=86400, h3-29=":443"; ma=86400"],"cache-control":["max-age=600"],"cf-cache-status":["DYNAMIC"],"cf-ray":["7158ef793fc91002-MRS"],"content-encoding":["br"],"content-type":["text/html; charset=utf-8"],"date":["Fri, 03 Jun 2022 13:57:01 GMT"],"expect-ct":["max-age=604800, report-uri="https://report-uri.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/beacon/expect-ct""],"expires":["Fri, 03 Jun 2022 04:51:08 GMT"],"last-modified":["Thu, 02 Jun 2022 07:18:32 GMT"],"nel":["{"success_fraction":0,"report_to":"cf-nel","max_age":604800}"],"report-to":["{"endpoints":[{"url":"https:\/\/a.nel.cloudflare.com\/report\/v3?s=eMuSIydvMiip8273nV1Tyhwv8P%2FabcCzQIPiiB6j%2F%2FGHlqYDja%2ByQHZytoro1INiOc0zRH0b59XgG59Ei3dpLI1b2p47GUJnNkEETpuXgH%2BAw%2Bn9MySO0l8xSl5MS53sGbwVp8u4UUF50hHFFVGP"}],"group":"cf-nel","max_age":604800}"],"server":["cloudflare"],"vary":["Accept-Encoding"],"via":["1.1 varnish"],"x-cache":["HIT"],"x-cache-hits":["1"],"x-fastly-request-id":["c09af26671df546dfcd5416d5001dd5d1293b944"],"x-github-request-id":["4006:3CF2:8F384E:968E30:629990E4"],"x-origin-cache":["HIT"],"x-proxy-cache":["MISS"],"x-served-by":["cache-cdg20772-CDG"],"x-timer":["S1654264621.018216,VS0,VE1"]},"referrer":"","error":"net::OK"},"sample":0.1,"applicationSessionUuid":"0c6c136b-a385-43c6-b728-e8d0c37fa86e","flashingWorkflowUuid":"01ecdc65-5826-429d-9576-aadcfe1c7975"}) gui.js:46 Successfully connected to IPC server: etcher-server-10192, socket root C:\Users\Win10\AppData\Local\Temp
gui.js:46 Image: C:\Users\Win10\Downloads\batocera-rpi4-34-20220523.img.gz gui.js:46 Devices: \.\PhysicalDrive3 gui.js:46 Auto blockmapping: true gui.js:46 Decompress first: true

If other details are needed I would be glad to help.

[petemyron]

This ticket has a solution that worked for me on Mac:

open Etcher with something like sudo /Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/MacOS/balenaEtcher so it has the enough permissions.

[esmitex]

This ticket has a solution that worked for me on Mac:

open Etcher with something like sudo /Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/MacOS/balenaEtcher so it has the enough permissions.

Thanks a lot, it worked for me.