Installation guide recommends Etcher, but Etcher only shows a white screen on elementary OS

[EidoJ]

What Happened?

Balena Etcher shows only a white screen.

This happened on both eOS 5.x and on a fresh install of 6.1 now that I have it installed.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Follow the instructions on the Installation page and Download Etcher from balena.io/etcher.
2. Give the .appimage execute permissions and launch it.

Expected Behavior

I expected that I would be able to write the disk image using Etcher as in the instructions on the web page.

OS Version

6.x (Odin)

Software Version

Latest release (I have run all updates)

Log Output

(balena-etcher.bin:6925): GLib-GIO-DEBUG: 20:13:27.956: _g_io_module_get_default: Found default implementation gvfs (GDaemonVfs) for ‘gio-vfs’
(balena-etcher.bin:6925): GLib-GIO-DEBUG: 20:13:28.054: _g_io_module_get_default: Found default implementation dconf (DConfSettingsBackend) for ‘gsettings-backend’
(balena-etcher.bin:6925): dconf-DEBUG: 20:13:28.054: watch_fast: "/system/proxy/" (establishing: 0, active: 0)
(balena-etcher.bin:6925): dconf-DEBUG: 20:13:28.055: unwatch_fast: "/system/proxy/" (active: 0, establishing: 1)
(balena-etcher.bin:6925): dconf-DEBUG: 20:13:28.055: watch_established: "/system/proxy/" (establishing: 0)
(balena-etcher.bin:6925): dconf-DEBUG: 20:13:28.057: watch_fast: "/system/proxy/" (establishing: 0, active: 0)
(balena-etcher.bin:6925): dconf-DEBUG: 20:13:28.057: watch_fast: "/system/proxy/http/" (establishing: 0, active: 0)
(balena-etcher.bin:6925): dconf-DEBUG: 20:13:28.057: watch_fast: "/system/proxy/https/" (establishing: 0, active: 0)
(balena-etcher.bin:6925): dconf-DEBUG: 20:13:28.057: watch_fast: "/system/proxy/ftp/" (establishing: 0, active: 0)
(balena-etcher.bin:6925): dconf-DEBUG: 20:13:28.057: watch_fast: "/system/proxy/socks/" (establishing: 0, active: 0)
(balena-etcher.bin:6925): dconf-DEBUG: 20:13:28.057: watch_established: "/system/proxy/" (establishing: 1)
(balena-etcher.bin:6925): dconf-DEBUG: 20:13:28.057: watch_established: "/system/proxy/http/" (establishing: 1)
(balena-etcher.bin:6925): dconf-DEBUG: 20:13:28.057: watch_established: "/system/proxy/https/" (establishing: 1)
(balena-etcher.bin:6925): dconf-DEBUG: 20:13:28.057: watch_established: "/system/proxy/ftp/" (establishing: 1)
(balena-etcher.bin:6925): dconf-DEBUG: 20:13:28.058: watch_established: "/system/proxy/socks/" (establishing: 1)
(balena-etcher.bin:6925): dconf-DEBUG: 20:13:28.308: watch_fast: "/system/proxy/" (establishing: 0, active: 1)
(balena-etcher.bin:6925): dconf-DEBUG: 20:13:28.308: unwatch_fast: "/system/proxy/" (active: 2, establishing: 0)
(balena-etcher.bin:6925): dconf-DEBUG: 20:13:28.308: watch_fast: "/system/proxy/" (establishing: 0, active: 1)
(balena-etcher.bin:6925): dconf-DEBUG: 20:13:28.308: watch_fast: "/system/proxy/http/" (establishing: 0, active: 1)
(balena-etcher.bin:6925): dconf-DEBUG: 20:13:28.308: watch_fast: "/system/proxy/https/" (establishing: 0, active: 1)
(balena-etcher.bin:6925): dconf-DEBUG: 20:13:28.309: watch_fast: "/system/proxy/ftp/" (establishing: 0, active: 1)
(balena-etcher.bin:6925): dconf-DEBUG: 20:13:28.309: watch_fast: "/system/proxy/socks/" (establishing: 0, active: 1)
mesa: for the --simplifycfg-sink-common option: may only occur zero or one times!
mesa: for the --global-isel-abort option: may only occur zero or one times!
mesa: for the --amdgpu-atomic-optimizations option: may only occur zero or one times!
ready-to-show: 1.004s

Hardware Info

Computer specs:

• GPU: AMD Radeon RX580
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600
• Memory: 16GB DDR4 3200

[lewisgoddard]

Hm, that appimage does not appear to work, you would need to use the .deb instructions. We should probably document that.