Balena Etcher Errors

[tonyk94583]

Summary

Using Etcher on a fully updated Solus Budgie system (Etcher version 1.18.13) I get an error when trying to flash an .iso to usb - "Error Opening Source - Something went wrong when trying to open .iso - Error: requestMetadata is not a function."

Steps to reproduce

Open Etcher, select iso to flash, and error appears. Unable to continue.

Expected result

Expect to flash iso file to usb without error.

Actual result

Unable to flash iso to usb due to error that appears after opening Etcher and selecting iso to flash. "Error Opening Source - Something went wrong when trying to open .iso - Error: requestMetadata is not a function."

Environment

• Is system up to date?

Repo

Shannon (stable)

Desktop Environment

Budgie

System details

System:
Host: solus-mbp Kernel: 6.5.11-263.current arch: x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: Budgie v: 10.8.2 Distro: Solus 4.4 harmony
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Apple product: MacBookPro9,2 v: 1.0
Mobo: Apple model: Mac-6F01561E16C75D06 v: MacBookPro9,2
serial: UEFI: Apple v: 228.0.0.0.0 date: 06/13/2019
CPU:
Info: dual core model: Intel Core i7-3520M bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache:
L2: 512 KiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1354 min/max: 1200/3600 cores: 1: 1214 2: 1308 3: 1197
4: 1699

Other comments

Error does not appear with Etcher AppImage downloaded from Etcher site, but AppImage is version 1.18.11 vice version 1.18.13 in Solus.

On the balena-io/etcher github site the same error message is listed as issue #4138 for Kubuntu 23.10, and the workaround used in that instance is to remove gconf dependencies when building Etcher.
See balena-io/etcher#4138

[tonyk94583]

Forgot to add the link to the forum - https://discuss.getsol.us/d/9990-balena-etcher-errors