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In case anyone else comes here because they were trying to install ubuntu in Vmware Fusion, but couldn't mount the iso, at least in Vmware Fusion 4, you can 'Continue without disc' - then it'll let you choose an iso on the next screen, so OSX never needs to mount it, and Vmware will mount it just fine. I've discovered a strange problem. If I have disk image files (DMGs) which reside on a read-only NFS share, I cannot open these in Mac OS X 10.7.5. The same files open fine when accessed over AFP.
Kelly Heffner Wilkerson
November 8, 2019 at 6:30 AM
Categories: macOS | View Comments
November 8, 2019 at 6:30 AM
Categories: macOS | View Comments
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I ran into an interesting macOS error while working with a customer a couple of weeks ago. I didn't find a lot of good search results addressing the issue, so I decided to write up a post about it myself.
The error was as the screenshot above shows; trying to open a dmg (disk image), macOS showed the error 'no mountable file systems'. If you see the 'no mountable file systems error' while opening a dmg, here's what you should try:
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- In most cases, the downloaded dmg file is actually corrupt or had an error downloading. If possible, try downloading the dmg again, turning off any download assistant plug-ins you may have. You can try downloading the file in a different browser as well. Or if you don't need to be logged in to the site to download the file and you want to be fancy, you can try
curl -O url
in Terminal to download the file. (There's an example of that in my screenshot below.)Customizable instruments. Xcode 7.3 download windows 10. Organizer. Low-overhead sampling. Refactoring. - Reboot your Mac if you haven't already tried that. Apparently there is an issue sometimes after opening too many dmg files, that is fixed with a reboot.
- Try mounting the DMG on the command line in Terminal. We will at least get some sort of useful error message to go on if it still fails:
- Open Terminal: In Spotlight, the search magnifying glass at the upper right corner of your screen, search for Terminal, and press enter to open the Terminal app.
- Type
hdiutil attach -verbose
into the terminal. Add a space at the end, but don't press enter yet. - Drag the dmg file from your Finder window onto the Terminal window and let go. This will fill in the location of the dmg file into your Terminal window.
- Press enter.
- macOS Sierra (10.12) and earlier is not able to mount the new Apple File System (APFS). So if you're on macOS Sierra (10.12) or earlier and you ran hdiutil and see references to
Apple_APFS
or error112
, the issue is likely legitimate incompatibility, and this disk image won't open on this Mac without an update to the operating system.Here's an example of the end ofhdiutil attach -verbose
output that shows an APFS error due to an older version of macOS: - Think about if you have any kind of security policies on this machine to prevent writing to external drives (thumb drives, optical drives, etc). I haven't seen this one in action, but I read about this being a possibility while researching the issue.
- Another suggestion added by a reader (thank you, Markus!) is that filesystem errors on your main Mac drive could be the cause of the disk image mounting errors. Here are instructions from Apple for scanning and repairing errors using Disk Utility. Note that in order to scan and repair errors on your main Macintosh HD drive, you'll need to reboot your Mac into recovery mode. You'll want to choose Disk Utility in the utilities listed in the recovery mode menu.
- A new discovery from a reader (thank you, Colby!) is that APFS DMGs won't mount if you're booted in macOS booted in Safe Mode. (Who knew!?!) If you're not sure if you're in safe mode, select the Apple menu > About This Mac > System Report button, then select the 'Software' heading from the left column. To exit safe mode, restart your Mac, without holding Shift during startup. Or, if you previously set your Mac to always boot into safe mode using
nvram
, turn off safe mode and have your Mac boot normally on the terminal:- Open Terminal: In Spotlight, the search magnifying glass at the upper right corner of your screen, search for Terminal, and press enter to open the Terminal app.
- Macos catalina full version dmg. Type/paste
sudo nvram boot-args='
and press enter. - Restart your Mac.
Folks, I'm curious if anyone has seen a similar issue installing beta 1 of High Sierra. I have a rMBP, early 2013. The installer begins to run and notes that a specific amount of time is left, in my case between 34 and 35 minutes. After maybe 3-4 minutes of this, it will then state that it is 'calculating the amount of time remaining' and do this for maybe 10 minutes at which point the installer window states that it can't install the software and the error message is OSStatus 2 (which I thought was a time machine error). The logs state that it is unable to mount one of the images for install (InstallESD.dmg). I tried a repair on the SSD. The DMG highlighted below is definitely there. Repairing the SSD actually fails, not sure why. I can reinstall Sierra but I haven't actually done a rebuild of the disk and then a reinstall. Maybe I should try that but wanted to know if anyone had insight.
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The install log snippet is below.
Log snippet:
Goflex satellite mac installer dmg download for pc. Jun 7 01:35:19 MacBook-Pro OSInstaller[544]: Repair completed successfully.
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Jun 7 01:35:19 MacBook-Pro OSInstaller[544]: mountDiskImageWithURLString: /Volumes/Macintosh HD/macOS Install Data/InstallESD.dmg
Jun 7 01:35:19 MacBook-Pro OSInstaller[544]: Couldn't mount disk image! (error code 2)
Jun 7 01:35:19 MacBook-Pro OSInstaller[544]: OSIInstallElement <OSIMountPayloadElement: 0x7f9caf0181d0> errored out:Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=2 'kCFHostErrorUnknown / kCFStreamErrorSOCKS4SubDomainResponse / kCFStreamErrorSOCKS5BadState / kCFStreamErrorDomainMacOSStatus / siInitVBLQsErr / dsAddressErr / scCommErr / ENOENT: Query the kCFGetAddrInfoFailureKey to get the value returned from getaddrinfo; lookup in netdb.h / Error code is the status code returned by the server / / OSStatus type from Carbon APIs; interpret using <MacTypes.h> / VBLqueues for all slots could not be initialized. / address error / communications error, operation timeout / No such file or directory'
Jun 7 01:35:19 MacBook-Pro storagekitd[545]: storagekitd: copyDiskForPath returned nil, error: -69808
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Jun 7 01:35:19 --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Jun 7 01:35:19 MacBook-Pro OSInstaller[544]: ------- Install Failed -------
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Jun 7 01:35:19 MacBook-Pro OSInstaller[544]: Operation: Mount Payload DMG failed, Failure Reason: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=2 'kCFHostErrorUnknown / kCFStreamErrorSOCKS4SubDomainResponse / kCFStreamErrorSOCKS5BadState / kCFStreamErrorDomainMacOSStatus / siInitVBLQsErr / dsAddressErr / scCommErr / ENOENT: Query the kCFGetAddrInfoFailureKey to get the value returned from getaddrinfo; lookup in netdb.h / Error code is the status code returned by the server / / OSStatus type from Carbon APIs; interpret using <MacTypes.h> / VBLqueues for all slots could not be initialized. / address error / communications error, operation timeout / No such file or directory'