hdiutil: create failed - error -5341

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DlacVal Author

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hdiutil: create failed - error -5341

Hi,

I have this error on 2 Macosx Mavericks machines:

hdiutil: create failed - error -5341

This happens when I create an image larger than 100MB. Here the srcfolder is 120MB:

$ hdiutil create -srcfolder myapp.app myapp.dmg

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hdiutil: create failed - error -5341

The solution is to specify the size on the command line

valodm:~ jedi$ hdiutil create -size 130m -srcfolder myapp.app myapp.dmg

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created: myapp.dmg

This is disturbing because this bug breaks the munkiimport tool. When trying to import the folder in Munki, I can't specify the size of the sourcefolder, so the tool fails with the error above. The workaround is to create the dmg with the command line, and then import the dmg.

I didn't have this problem on Mountain Lion.

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Dec 15, 2013 1:43 AM

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Answer 1

Dec 16, 2013 5:22 PM in response to DlacVal

I'm experiencing this same error. Any srcfolder bigger than 100mb simply won't work.

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Answer 2

DlacVal Author

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Jan 12, 2014 3:18 AM in response to DlacVal

This might give somebody a clue:

today I tried creating a DMG file in a script. It fails with the same error:

$ DMG_create.sh myapp.app

hdiutil create -size 130m -srcfolder myapp.app myapp.dmg

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hdiutil: create failed - error -5341

And the funny thing is that if I type the exact same command directly in my terminal (in fact, copy/paste the command from previous output of the script), it works:

$ hdiutil create -size 130m -srcfolder myapp.app myapp.dmg

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created: myapp.dmg

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nmorenor

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Jan 22, 2014 8:02 AM in response to DlacVal

Is there a known workaround for this, I get the same error on my side

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Answer 4

Feb 21, 2014 1:28 AM in response to DlacVal

I think I'm having the same problem, but I notice one clue--if I try to create the dmg, at first it fails. If I run my app, and then create the dmg, it succeeds.

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s-car-go

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May 15, 2014 7:29 AM in response to DlacVal

I'm on a Mac Mini with Mavericks and I too get this issue when using Disk Utility.

The directory I'm trying to make into a disc image is 528Mb.

To be quite honest I have so many problems with Mavericks that I'm sorry I bothered to upgrade. To me the worst OS X release to date.

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Jun 29, 2014 4:57 AM in response to s-car-go

It is interesting that I just ran into this same problem after having done many dmg files previously. The file size was similar, about 520 MB. I tried several times to made the dmg file using Disk Utility and kept getting the same error. Next, I added another file to the folder I was trying to convert into the dmg making it about 600 MB and the dmg was produced with out the error -5341. I wonder if there is size of file that is causing the problem. Seems like a bug.

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Answer 7

Jul 22, 2014 7:05 PM in response to DlacVal

I ran into this same issue recently. Oddly enough, what fixed it was to manually add a .Trash file to the srcfolder prior to imaging with it. I got the idea from:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18621467/error-creating-disk-image-using-hdut il

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Answer 8

Apr 4, 2015 6:40 AM in response to Conor Schutzman

Maybe size does matter?

I once had a similar (maybe the same) error a while ago when I was creating disk images as backups of folders using Disk Utility. I eventually split the source folder into two folders and Disk Image was able to create the dmg file properly.

Fast forward. I use hdiutil to do the same task now in a more automated way from a bash script. I just ran the script on 25 folders. 23 of them were archived into dmg files as expected. Two failed with the -5341 error.

I edited one of the files in one of the folders slightly, reducing the file size by about 3%, ran the script again and it worked properly.

I modified a file in the other folder that hdiutil failed on the first time and, again, it worked.

There is no .Trash in either folder.

Neither folder was anywhere near 520 mb. They were different sizes (~130 mb and ~260 mb).

Conclusion: either there was something in those files, or on the area of the SSD that those files were sitting on, that was giving hdiutil a problem, or there is something with various sizes of dmg files that brings out a bug in hdituil.

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