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I am trying to create an SD for Raspberry Pi on a MacBook Pro 2008 running Yosemite 10.10.2.

SD is 16GB Lexar Class6 which has previously worked well for RaspBMC

OSMC qt_host_installer GUI installer goes through all steps until it is time to write to the device. Mac gives an admin prompt:
osascript wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this.

GUI Installer then gives error:
An error occurred writing the image!
Please consult the logfile.

There is no ability to write, thus there is no log file on the SD.

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Did you check the location of the qt_host_installer for the installer.log?

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Yes:

drwxr-xr-x  .
drwxrwxrwt@ ..
d-wx-wx-wt .Trashes
drwxr-xr-x qt_host_installer.app
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Hi

We’re not talking about the log file on the SD here, but a log file on your Mac. It’s likely in your Mac’s home folder (/Users/YourUserName/) I think.

@srmo, can you give us advice as to the path? I know the installer is in a DMG, so I am curious where we are saving the log to

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Hi, the log is written to the user home.

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I tried to re-use an old raspbmc card and it failed as well.

Had to go to the disk tool in OS X and re-partition the card to one FAT32 partition. Then it worked.

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Hm, interesting. That makes no sense.

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Sense or not, this is the log output:

mån feb 2 12:38:56 2015 Finished extraction. Going to write image
mån feb 2 12:38:56 2015 Requesting confirmation from user
mån feb 2 12:39:02 2015 User confirmed
mån feb 2 12:39:08 2015 Imaging failed!
mån feb 2 12:39:08 2015 Messages are:
mån feb 2 12:39:08 2015 	 stdout:
mån feb 2 12:39:08 2015 	 stderr: 0:133: execution error: dd: /dev/rdisk4: Permission denied (1)

And it worked when I re-partitioned the card as one FAT32 partition.

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Here is my log file:

Sat Feb 7 12:09:20 2015 OSMC Installer running on Mac OS X
Sat Feb 7 12:09:20 2015 Detected locale as en_US
Sat Feb 7 12:09:20 2015 Attempting to load translation for locale en_US
Sat Feb 7 12:09:20 2015 Could not load translation!
Sat Feb 7 12:09:20 2015 Resolving a mirror
Sat Feb 7 12:09:22 2015 Resolved mirror to http://173.255.206.49/osmc/download/
Sat Feb 7 12:09:22 2015 Enumerating supported devices
Sat Feb 7 12:09:22 2015 Added the following devices
Sat Feb 7 12:09:22 2015 Raspberry Pi
Sat Feb 7 12:09:22 2015 Raspberry Pi 2
Sat Feb 7 12:09:22 2015 Checking for updates
Sat Feb 7 12:09:22 2015 Checking for updates by downloading http://173.255.206.49/osmc/download//installers/latest_mac
Sat Feb 7 12:09:22 2015 Acquired mirror file
Sat Feb 7 12:09:22 2015 No new update is available
Sat Feb 7 12:09:32 2015 The user has selected English as their language
Sat Feb 7 12:09:32 2015 The user has selected Raspberry Pi as their device
Sat Feb 7 12:09:32 2015 Attempting to download device versions file http://173.255.206.49/osmc/download/installers/versions_RBP
Sat Feb 7 12:09:32 2015 Found a build called  Alpha1
Sat Feb 7 12:09:32 2015 Found a build called  Alpha2
Sat Feb 7 12:09:32 2015 Found a build called  Alpha3
Sat Feb 7 12:09:32 2015 Found a build called  Alpha4
Sat Feb 7 12:09:39 2015 The user has selected an online image for Raspberry Pi with build URL : http://173.255.206.49/osmc/download/installers/diskimages/OSMC_TGT_rbp_20150201.img.gz
Sat Feb 7 12:09:39 2015 Disabling internal install for device Raspberry Pi as it does not support it
Sat Feb 7 12:09:40 2015 SD installation selected
Sat Feb 7 12:09:50 2015 Enumerating imageable devices for OSX
Sat Feb 7 12:09:50 2015 New disk device entry created with entry point /dev/rdisk1 and 250.1 GB free space
Sat Feb 7 12:09:50 2015 New disk device entry created with entry point /dev/rdisk2 and 16.0 GB free space
Sat Feb 7 12:09:50 2015 New disk device entry created with entry point /dev/rdisk3 and 25.6 MB free space
Sat Feb 7 12:09:59 2015 Enumerating imageable devices for OSX
Sat Feb 7 12:09:59 2015 New disk device entry created with entry point /dev/rdisk1 and 250.1 GB free space
Sat Feb 7 12:09:59 2015 New disk device entry created with entry point /dev/rdisk2 and 16.0 GB free space
Sat Feb 7 12:09:59 2015 New disk device entry created with entry point /dev/rdisk3 and 25.6 MB free space
Sat Feb 7 12:10:06 2015 Device selected: 2 	 /dev/rdisk2 	 16.0 GB
Sat Feb 7 12:10:14 2015 GPLv2 licence has been accepted
Sat Feb 7 12:10:14 2015 Downloading http://173.255.206.49/osmc/download/installers/diskimages/OSMC_TGT_rbp_20150201.img.gz
Sat Feb 7 12:14:27 2015 Download successful
Sat Feb 7 12:14:27 2015 Extracting /Volumes/Local HD/Users/homie/OSMC_TGT_rbp_20150201.img.gz
Sat Feb 7 12:14:33 2015 Finished extraction. Going to write image
Sat Feb 7 12:14:33 2015 Requesting confirmation from user
Sat Feb 7 12:34:28 2015 User confirmed
Sat Feb 7 12:34:29 2015 going to start osa
Sat Feb 7 12:34:29 2015 pasting admin script to process do shell script "dd if=/Volumes/Local HD/Users/homie/OSMC_TGT_rbp_20150201.img of=/dev/rdisk2 bs=1m conv=sync && sync" with administrator privileges
Sat Feb 7 12:34:29 2015 waiting for finish
Sat Feb 7 12:34:40 2015 osa claims to be done...collect output and verify
Sat Feb 7 12:34:40 2015 Imaging failed!
Sat Feb 7 12:34:40 2015 Messages are:
Sat Feb 7 12:34:40 2015 	 stdout: 
Sat Feb 7 12:34:40 2015 	 stderr: 2015-02-07 12:34:29.375 osascript[21649:428579] Error loading /Library/ScriptingAdditions/Adobe Unit Types.osax/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Unit Types:  dlopen(/Library/ScriptingAdditions/Adobe Unit Types.osax/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Unit Types, 262): no suitable image found.  Did find:
	/Library/ScriptingAdditions/Adobe Unit Types.osax/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Unit Types: no matching architecture in universal wrapper
osascript: OpenScripting.framework - scripting addition "/Library/ScriptingAdditions/Adobe Unit Types.osax" declares no loadable handlers.
0:148: execution error: dd: unknown operand HD/Users/homie/OSMC_TGT_rbp_20150201.img (1)
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I think the space between Local and HD needs a \.

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Ah yes it needs to be escaped. I am usually alert enough to do that if I am typing a dd command, but sometimes automated installers do not pick it up. probably easier for me to just run the command. should probably just rename the disc.

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cc @srmo

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command line dd worked with the escaped space; installed on SD, now at 80% installed on the Pi (old original version). Installer screen is very pretty. :grinning:

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SHORT VERSION: where does the qt_host_installer.app go before i double click it?
EXAMPLE: Installing Kodi on OSX: mount file, drag Kodi.app to the shortcut inside the .dmg and Kodi.app will end up in /Macintosh HD/Applications/ (ALL apps end up here…)

So when i mount the osmc-installer.dmg, it gets renamed to
qt_host_installer.app (and it has the neat OSMC logo/icon so i know that its the right file…)
BUT, usually a *.dmg will mount, and inside there will be 2 files; a *.app and an “Alias” (shortcut) to /Macintosh HD/Applications/ and i would drag the *.app to that shortcut, and then browse to /Macintosh HD/Applications/ and run it for the first time, and thats when it loads folders into like /Users/username/Library/Application Support/Kodi for example thats the way kodi installs on my mac OSX 10.6.8…

Where do i pull this qt_host_installer.app and drop it into? There’s no “shortcut/Alias” inside the .dmg so i’d assume i’d drag it to /MacintoshHD/Applications (where all my other apps are) But i read about the now fixed problem with the space in the username directory… example there’s a dir called
/Macintosh HD/Users/marc/Applications/ but its empty… so does it go into the “marc” dir in that path? That’s different if its right…
i could put it into /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/marc/ but i have never installed an app into that “level”… am i making sense? i just need to know where to put the “qt_host_installer.app” before i run it for the 1st time…
Thanks!!
PS /Volumes/ should be assumed to be before /Macintosh HD/Applications/ in all my lines i wrote, as it is the single volume on this macbook.

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I’m still only seeing rpi builds. When will other platforms be available?

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@rogerjonez where did u drag the qt_host_installer.app to before you ran it the 1st time?

/Macintosh HD/Applications/ ?

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I ran it from the dmg

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Well i meant the path that you ran it from, but it doesn’t matter i dont think sounds like you just ran it out of the dmg and it set it up.
Thanks