How to flash MB1355C and/or MB1293C from the STM32WB55 Nucleo Pack on Linux?

Question

I would like to program the (MB1355C and/or MB1293C) devices from an STM32WB55 Nucleo Pack on my (Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS) machine - preferably with the convenience of an eclipse based IDE that supports debugging features.

I installed

• STM32CubeProgrammer (version 2.2.1)
• Atolic TrueStudio (version 9.3.0)
• STM32CubeIDE (version 1.1.0)

and I now have the following udev rules

chandran@chandran-OptiPlex-9020:~$ ll /etc/udev/rules.d/
total 160
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Dec 13 14:11  ./
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root  4096 Dec  4 13:44  ../
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root   270 Oct 14 18:10  49-stlinkv1.rules
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root   270 Oct 14 18:10  49-stlinkv1.rules.O
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root   464 Oct 14 18:10  49-stlinkv2-1.rules
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root   464 Oct 14 18:10  49-stlinkv2-1.rules.O
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root   278 Oct 14 18:10  49-stlinkv2.rules
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root   278 Oct 14 18:10  49-stlinkv2.rules.O
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   458 Dec 11 17:26  49-stlinkv3loader.rules
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root   845 Oct 14 18:10  49-stlinkv3.rules
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root   845 Oct 14 18:10  49-stlinkv3.rules.O
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   381 Dec  6 17:10 '#61-msp430uif.rules#'
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   381 Dec  4 15:09  61-msp430uif.rules
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  2145 Dec  4 15:09  70-mm-no-ti-emulators.rules*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 58549 Dec  4 12:29  70-snap.core.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    79 Dec  5 12:11  77-msp430-blacklist.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     0 Dec  5 12:10  77-msp430-blacklist.rules~
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 18450 Oct 14 17:33  99-jlink.rules
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 18450 Oct 14 17:33  99-jlink.rules.O

I am in the dialout group

chandran@chandran-OptiPlex-9020:~$ groups chandran
chandran : chandran adm dialout cdrom sudo dip plugdev lpadmin sambashare

I downloaded an example project called STM32100E-EVAL_USART_IrDA_Transmit and it builds successfully, but I get the following error message when I connect the evaluation board(s) and click on debug to flash the micro controller

ST-Link enumeration failed
Error in initializing ST-Link device.
Reason: (2) ST-Link DLL error.

I get the same error message when I try the above with STM32CubeIDE.

I have tried shifting JP1 as described in section 7.6 of the users manual but to no avail.

A previous question on stack overflow deals with the same error message so I got STM32CubeProgrammer to launch and tried making the changes suggested by @IsaBostan, but the development boards don't seem to be detected

How can I proceed to resolve this problem and program the boards?

Debugging ideas or suggestions are welcome, even if they haven't been tested...

Answer 1

It was just a question of permissions as suggested by KamilCuk

Launching TrueStudio as root and then clicking on debug solved the problem.

This is what worked on my machine:

sudo su
/opt/Atollic_TrueSTUDIO_for_STM32_x86_64_9.3.0/ide/./TrueSTUDIO

STM32CubeIDE's debugger also works when launched as follows on my machine:

sudo su
/opt/st/stm32cubeide_1.1.0/./stm32cubeide

and STM32CubeProgrammer connects to the device straight away when launched as follows:

sudo su
/usr/local/STMicroelectronics/STM32Cube/STM32CubeProgrammer/bin/./STM32CubeProgrammer

My device shows up under /dev/ttyACM0 with the following permissions:

crw-rw----+ 1 root dialout 166, 0 Dec 28 11:56 ttyACM0

openocd and st-flash were not required.