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    From bp@bp@www.zefox.net to comp.sys.raspberry-pi on Wed Jun 4 01:04:30 2025
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    I've been trying to write an image file to a microSD and it seems that
    nothing happens. Even cancelling the write, nothing happens. The progress
    bars just keep flying across the window. It's been well over an hour, from
    a file in Downloads, so it can't be a network delay.

    Presumably the microSD card is faulty, but I'd be more confident in that
    if some explict error message came up. It's especially odd that cancelling
    the write doesn't seem to do anything.

    Anybody know what Imager failures are _supposed_ to look like?

    Thanks for reading,

    bob prohaska


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  • From bp@bp@www.zefox.net to comp.sys.raspberry-pi on Wed Jun 4 02:50:19 2025
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    bp@www.zefox.net wrote:
    I've been trying to write an image file to a microSD and it seems that nothing happens. Even cancelling the write, nothing happens. The progress bars just keep flying across the window. It's been well over an hour, from
    a file in Downloads, so it can't be a network delay.

    Presumably the microSD card is faulty, but I'd be more confident in that
    if some explict error message came up. It's especially odd that cancelling the write doesn't seem to do anything.

    Anybody know what Imager failures are _supposed_ to look like?

    Thanks for reading,

    bob prohaska


    Moments after hitting "send" Imager reported it couldn't open the device....

    Sorry for the noise,

    bob prohaska

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  • From Theo@theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk to comp.sys.raspberry-pi on Wed Jun 4 09:44:38 2025
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    bp@www.zefox.net wrote:
    I've been trying to write an image file to a microSD and it seems that nothing happens. Even cancelling the write, nothing happens. The progress bars just keep flying across the window. It's been well over an hour, from
    a file in Downloads, so it can't be a network delay.

    Presumably the microSD card is faulty, but I'd be more confident in that
    if some explict error message came up. It's especially odd that cancelling the write doesn't seem to do anything.

    Anybody know what Imager failures are _supposed_ to look like?

    If you're on Linux or Mac, take a look at dmesg ('sudo dmesg'). You may see errors with the kernel failing to access the SD card. Such errors sometimes aren't exposed to applications very well (eg everything may freeze rather
    than reporting a sensible error to the application).

    FreeBSD likewise, although I don't know if Imager runs on it?

    Not sure what Windows does in this scenario... something something Event Viewer?

    Theo
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  • From bp@bp@www.zefox.net to comp.sys.raspberry-pi on Wed Jun 4 23:02:01 2025
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    Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:

    If you're on Linux or Mac, take a look at dmesg ('sudo dmesg'). You may see errors with the kernel failing to access the SD card. Such errors sometimes aren't exposed to applications very well (eg everything may freeze rather than reporting a sensible error to the application).

    This was on RasPiOS Bookworm. I didn't think to check dmesg.....

    Thanks for writing!

    bob prohaska
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