Re: Raspberry Pi imager failure modes

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