Error: (0 , h.requestMetadata) is not a function

[wegank]

• Etcher version: 1.18.13 - 1.19.3
• Operating system and architecture: NixOS, x86_64-linux
• Image flashed: Arbitrary image
• What do you think should have happened: Image selected successfully, being able to select target
• What happened: Can't select any image
• Do you see any meaningful error information in the DevTools? No, same error as above.

In Nixpkgs we package Etcher on the basis of the official deb. The procedure no longer works as of 1.18.13.

Likely a continuation of #4138. Probably that issue should be reopened? @dfunckt

[Sargeanthost]

Also having this issue on Manjaro

[devM7MD]

Like you but I'm using ArchLinux :(

[polsvoice]

I'm getting this with version 1.18.14 on Garuda.

[myxor]

Same for me on ArchLinux.

[OffsetMonkey538]

Getting this on Nobara 38

[Sargeanthost]

Was initially trying on Hyprland, which is on Wayland. I download Cinnamon to test and Xorg environment and it worked for me. I used 1.8.13. Is anyone else on Wayland?

[OffsetMonkey538]

I was on wayland

[TerrorBite]

I'm getting this issue on Manjaro with the 1.18.14 version from the AUR and I'm on X11. However, it lools like 1.18.14 released just a couple of days before #4132 was merged, meaning that the fix for #4138 wasn't included in that version. So any Arch/Manjaro issues (@Sargeanthost, @devM7MD, @myxor) should hopefully be fixed when 1.19.x lands on the AUR. Maybe I can try and manually build a 1.19 package and see if it works?

[TerrorBite]

It looks like the move to building with electron-forge causes build issues on Arch, and this is why the AUR package is still on version 1.18.

[TobiPeterG]

I have the same issue on openSUSE using the RPM and appimage

[LITUATUI]

Same problem here with EndeavourOS.

[slagathor69]

Same issue on Ubuntu 22.04 with X11 using balenaEtcher-1.19.3-x64.AppImage but no error when using balenaEtcher-1.18.11-x64.AppImage

[shunkica]

Same issue with balena-etcher-1.19.3-1.x86_64.rpm on Fedora 39

[wthubhub]

also have same issue with balena-etcher-1.19.3-1.x86_64.rpm on Fedora 39

[eternallfrost]

This issue does not occur on the appimage version of Etcher

[dualrelax]

I use archlinux ,balenaEtcher-1.18.8-x64.AppImage can use

[aethernet]

Thanks for the reports guys.
This basically means the sub-process etcher-utils could not be spawned properly (or is not yet ready).
There might be more infos in the debug console.
Can you check what it says ( Ctrl + Shift + I should open it) ?

[ClassANetwork]

Thanks for the reports guys. This basically means the sub-process etcher-utils could not be spawned properly (or is not yet ready). There might be more infos in the debug console. Can you check what it says ( Ctrl + Shift + I should open it) ?

Getting the same on Fedora 39 with version v1.19.3. Tried both RPM and AppImage formats. Same result.
-1706048290684.log

[Kaiddd]

Same on Arch on both x11 and wayland, installed with yay from aur (since people above were talking abt wayland)

AppImage works fine

[pamo22]

Thanks for the reports guys. This basically means the sub-process etcher-utils could not be spawned properly (or is not yet ready). There might be more infos in the debug console. Can you check what it says ( Ctrl + Shift + I should open it) ?

node:events:491 Uncaught Error: spawn /usr/lib/balena-etcher/generated/etcher-util ENOENT
    at __node_internal_captureLargerStackTrace (node:internal/errors:490:5)
    at __node_internal_errnoException (node:internal/errors:620:12)
    at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:283:19)
    at onErrorNT (node:internal/child_process:476:16)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:82:21)
(anonymous) @ gui.js:3
gui.js:3 TypeError: requestMetadata is not a function
    at gui.js:278:1759
    at SourceSelector.selectSource (gui.js:278:2719)
    at SourceSelector.openImageSelector (gui.js:278:3117)

Unfortunately console does not have much info

[JBlackCat]

OS: Fedora 39
pkg: balena-etcher-1.19.4-1.x86_64.rpm

Looking at the inspector the error is thrown in the source-selector component here... https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/blob/v1.19.4/lib/gui/app/components/source-selector/source-selector.tsx#L425

requestMetadata which is imported from app is still undefined.

https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/blob/v1.19.4/lib/gui/app/app.ts#L139-L157

Since requestMetadata is initially defined as undefined there needs to be an additional check in selectSource to know that requestMetadata has been defined. It appears the only way to know this is listening for the emitted scan event, but I didn't deep dive on a solution.

[nath1as]

still an issue on arch

[kdh8219]

Archlinux, Is this same problem?

[harperbolic]

same problem, archlinux

[Niskeletor]

Experiencing the same issue here on Manjaro and Garuda Linux with balena-etcher-2:1.18.14-1.

Just as @Kaiddd commented, I can confirm that the balenaEtcher-1.5.109-x64.AppImage version works fine on both systems.

[wasantosfi]

Same issue here on ElementaryOS and Zorin OS with balenaEtcher-1.19.5-x64.AppImage.
Confirmed that balenaEtcher-1.18.11-x64.AppImage worked on both systems.

[dmophir]

Experiencing this problem on my Dell XPS 9520 running Arch Linux. This is with balenaEtcher v1.18.14 from AUR, v1.18.12 AppImage, and v1.19.5 AppImage. Running GNOME 45.4 on Wayland with Intel GPU.

[Baku-Stark]

My problem in Linux Minut

[g0r0d3tsky]

Same on Ubuntu 22.04 with balenaEtcher-1.19.21-x64.AppImage.

[Mr3rf1]

same issue on fedora 39 and balena-etcher-1.19.21-1.x86_64.rpm

[aethernet]

Same on Ubuntu 20.04 with balenaEtcher-1.19.21-x64.AppImage.

It's strange that with all the feedback and trouble, the issue hasn't been tackled yet.

PR welcomes :)

[NikolasPetriti]

fixed by running as administrator on windows

[Jose-Monteiro]

Same error here on Fedora 40 with Wayland. Using version 1.18.11 this issue does not appears. The link below is to this version that worked for me.
https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/releases/tag/v1.18.11

[saurabhuja]

Old version 1.18.11 worked for me. @aethernet Can we rollback recent changes from 1.19.11 to 1.18 ? This is a regression blocker to use it.

[andreidiaconescu]

Hello,
Issue still reproduces running balenaEtcher-1.19.21.Setup.exe on windows 10 and trying to write image for Ubuntu ubuntu-24.04-desktop-amd64.iso
Was able to run balenaEtcher-Setup-1.18.11.exe in the same conditions, and it run fine.

[lazcol]

Same error over here with 1.19.19 and 1.19.21 versions. Didn't test other. I am going to unleash dd command. I am running Debian bookworm on a Ryzen 9.

[lazcol]

Same error over here with 1.19.19 and 1.19.21 versions. Didn't test other. I am going to unleash dd command. I am running Debian bookworm on a Ryzen 9.

running as sudo ./balenaEtcher-1.19.19-x64.AppImage --no-sandbox it doesn't work either. I tryed because windows people says that it works running as administrator.

[Aracon]

balenaEtcher-1.19.21-x64.AppImage on Ubuntu 20.04, same issue

1.18.11 works

[crisdeff]

Having the same issue with Arch Linux 6.4.12-arch1-1 and the version of etcher balenaEtcher-1.19.21-x64.AppImage. I found a way to bypass using the previous version:

https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/releases/tag/v1.18.11

for ubuntu on windows, worked for me thanks

[tojimahammatov]

Hi all, it happened to me as well but worked when I fixed the issue on my own system, ubuntu 24.04.

I suggest to run the program through terminal, then when you encounter this issue you can see more detailed log in the terminal. In my case it is said that there was no space to write on device. The error message is more descriptive there and might not be belong to balena. Hope it helps.

[carlowisse]

Same issue here on Fedora 40. Spent a bit of time debugging. Running from terminal with --no-sandbox and checking output I got to: DRM kernel driver 'nvidia-drm' in use. NVK requires nouveau.

[qichengzx]

I also had the same problem when I plugged in two USB devices, then I unplugged one of the devices, restarted ether, and there was no error when I selected the image file again

[Volcano-Dragon]

@qichengzx it worked for me also, Actually, I copied the iso file from USB pendrive to my system and then trying to open it in etcher, but got this (0, h.requestMetadata) error. Then I removed the USB and restarted the etcher and now no error.

I'm installing Linux Mint Cinnamon 21.6 on Windows 10 as my secondary OS.

Thanks to @qichengzx

[Eric-FR]

PC Acer. Windows 10 familly. 22H2.
I downloaded the default version proposed on belana website i.e. 1.19.21 (so, not supposed to be a beta).

[danielsigl]

@qichengzx it worked for me also, Actually, I copied the iso file from USB pendrive to my system and then trying to open it in etcher, but got this (0, h.requestMetadata) error. Then I removed the USB and restarted the etcher and now no error.

I'm installing Linux Mint Cinnamon 21.6 on Windows 10 as my secondary OS.

Thanks to @qichengzx

That worked. Had the same issue with win10 and newest version from Website. Removing USB flash and restarting program fixed issue while loading image. Thank you!

Till the image is loading very long, a loading spinner would be nice to be sure the program didn't crashed

[Eric-FR]

I downgraded to 1.18.11 to overcome the issue.

[rhlinka]

PC Acer. Windows 10 familly. 22H2. I downloaded the default version proposed on belana website i.e. 1.19.21 (so, not supposed to be a beta).

I had same issue on Win 10. Even running as Administrator does not work as others mentioned here.

When I run with --no-sandbox option, it resolved the issue.
So, just run cmd on the directory where you have Etcher installed (it can be under /AppData/Local/balena_etcher - if not there, right click on the balenaEtcher in start menu and select "Open file location" - if it shows just shortcut, open file location of the shortcut until you see balena_etcher.exe)

Then start it with the option, e.g.:
C:\Users<the user>\AppData\Local\balena_etcher> balenaFetcher.exe --no-sandbox

[bexxxhb]

current version broken, can confirm this, windows 10, same "requestMetaData" error.

1.18.11 indeed still works, but sad for this project that no one fixes this longer existing error ...

[ruffieuxh]

Same problem on Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS and AppImage.

Running on 1.18.11 worked flawlessly.

[meditrbt]

same on mac m1 sonoma 14.5

[savioazure]

PC Acer. Windows 10 familly. 22H2. I downloaded the default version proposed on belana website i.e. 1.19.21 (so, not supposed to be a beta).

I had same issue on Win 10. Even running as Administrator does not work as others mentioned here.

When I run with --no-sandbox option, it resolved the issue. So, just run cmd on the directory where you have Etcher installed (it can be under /AppData/Local/balena_etcher - if not there, right click on the balenaEtcher in start menu and select "Open file location" - if it shows just shortcut, open file location of the shortcut until you see balena_etcher.exe)

Then start it with the option, e.g.: C:\Users\AppData\Local\balena_etcher> balenaFetcher.exe --no-sandbox

It worked for me on w10

[GetsVR]

Same problem on Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS and AppImage.

Running on 1.18.11 worked flawlessly.

Win10. This was the only aforementioned method that worked for me.