Research is still being done on why this happens, but here are some cases:
* [`make -f Makefile.rn42 dfu` and not the dfu-programmer commands worked for @tybenz](https://github.com/tmk/tmk_keyboard/issues/316) - also see [the hhkb keyboard on tmk](https://github.com/tmk/tmk_keyboard/tree/master/keyboard/hhkb)
* [Doing a force erase works here](https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=12047.msg1520147#msg1520147)
* [`dfu-programmer atmega32u4 erase --force` works here as well](https://forum.fhem.de/index.php?topic=29777.0) [DE]
* [Unresolved, but some data dumps](https://github.com/dfu-programmer/dfu-programmer/issues/29)