I’m having issues with Fedora Mediawriter crashing as soon as I select the .iso file. I have tried 2x versions of Mediawriter program on my current (Fedora) system - version 4.2.2 & 5.2.3. Both versions crash as soon as I select the .iso file.
I’m in the process of updating an old release (Fedora 33 workstation) to the current release. I’m also planning to increase partition space on my boot drive (using Gparted), because I’m currently having problems with available boot drive space fluctuating between 1.4gb - 2.5gb. I have another forum topic about this process here incl. various terminal outputs of my current system.
I’m not sure if the limited space is also the reason why Mediawriter is acting up, but it’s an essential part of the process that would allow me to increase my boot drive partition space (using Gparted) as well as for installing a new Fedora release. Both requires the creation of a bootable external drive & I need Mediawriter to achieve this.
Any guidance from this community towards clarifying what the cause of this issue may be would be greatly appreciated.
If you have a new drive to install things on, I wouldn’t touch the existing drive until after a working, bootable OS has been installed on the new drive so that you should be able to use the new OS installation on the new drive to recover things from the old drive if you end up making it unbootable in the process of trying to resize the boot partition.
Can you launch FMW from the command line? Sometimes that will allow error messages that would otherwise be hidden to be seen.
If you are just trying to create a bootable thumb drive, I think ddshould work as an alternative to FMW. But you need to be very careful with it (make sure you point it at your thumb drive and not your system drive) or else dd could easily destroy all your data.
Yes, I already have a new ssd waiting for a fresh install, but the mediawriter issue is holding up this process.
This worked! Thank you!!
For clarity, I typed ‘mediawriter’ into the terminal and it launched immediately. No issues after selecting the .iso file & I managed to create a bootable external drive without any problems.
When launched from the terminal, Mediawriter’s GUI was different to the 2x versions of the app I mentioned above. I’m assuming it was a different program altogether (as in different to the ones installed on my system previously).
It’s still unclear what caused the app to crash after selecting the .iso file. In researching the problem before I made this forum topic I saw that others had similar issues and there were also no clear answers. So even though I found a solution to my issue within my particular context, the problem with Fedora Mediawriter crashing remains unresolved.
There may be details of the FMW crashes in /var/log on the system disk where the crashes occurred. On recent systems they would be in /var/log/journal. I don’t recall if F33 used journal – older systems scattered error messages across multiple logs.
