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Confusing ENOMEM error when spawning the GNU/Linux drive detection script

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Etcher version: 1.0.0-beta.18
Operating system and architecture: Ubuntu 14.04

Running Etcher to get Ubuntu 16.04 on a 4GB USB key I get the following error:

Error: spawn ENOMEM
    at exports._errnoException (util.js:1026:11)
    at ChildProcess.spawn (internal/child_process.js:313:11)
    at exports.spawn (child_process.js:392:9)
    at Object.exports.execFile (child_process.js:155:15)
    at Object.module.(anonymous function) [as execFile] (ELECTRON_ASAR.js:224:18)
    at Object.exports.run (/tmp/.mount_ZZ2t46/usr/bin/resources/app.asar/node_modules/drivelist/lib/scripts.js:84:16)
    at Object.exports.list (/tmp/.mount_ZZ2t46/usr/bin/resources/app.asar/node_modules/drivelist/lib/drivelist.js:56:11)
    at Object.tryCatcher (/tmp/.mount_ZZ2t46/usr/bin/resources/app.asar/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/util.js:16:23)
    at Object.ret [as listAsync] (eval at makeNodePromisifiedEval (/tmp/.mount_ZZ2t46/usr/bin/resources/app.asar/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promisify.js:184:12), <anonymous>:13:39)
    at isElevated.then.then (/tmp/.mount_ZZ2t46/usr/bin/resources/app.asar/lib/cli/etcher.js:70:20)
    at tryCatcher (/tmp/.mount_ZZ2t46/usr/bin/resources/app.asar/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/util.js:16:23)
    at Promise._settlePromiseFromHandler (/tmp/.mount_ZZ2t46/usr/bin/resources/app.asar/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:504:31)
    at Promise._settlePromise (/tmp/.mount_ZZ2t46/usr/bin/resources/app.asar/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:561:18)
    at Promise._settlePromise0 (/tmp/.mount_ZZ2t46/usr/bin/resources/app.asar/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:606:10)
    at Promise._settlePromises (/tmp/.mount_ZZ2t46/usr/bin/resources/app.asar/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:685:18)
    at Async._drainQueue (/tmp/.mount_ZZ2t46/usr/bin/resources/app.asar/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:138:16)
    at Async._drainQueues (/tmp/.mount_ZZ2t46/usr/bin/resources/app.asar/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:148:10)
    at Immediate.Async.drainQueues (/tmp/.mount_ZZ2t46/usr/bin/resources/app.asar/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:17:14)
    at runCallback (timers.js:574:20)
    at tryOnImmediate (timers.js:554:5)
    at processImmediate [as _immediateCallback] (timers.js:533:5)

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jviotticommented, Mar 1, 2017

If I’m back home I can check on that, if you’re still interested.

Yeah, that’d be really helpful!

Definitely. We have some human friendly translations here: https://github.com/resin-io/etcher/blob/master/lib/cli/errors.js#L27, but we’re not addressing the ENOMEM one.

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jviotticommented, Mar 1, 2017

Right. The stack trace says /tmp/.mount_ZZ2t46/usr/bin/resources/app.asar/lib/cli/etcher.js, which means it’s coming from the latest drive check from the writer process before starting the flash. Thanks a lot @keunes , this should be more than enough for us to clarify the error.

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