[OpenOCD-user] Running openocd on ubuntu: the adventure continues

[Ron G. <ro...@fl...>]

I got openocd 0.9.0-rc1 to build on ubuntu (14.04) thanks to Craig Younkins.  AFAICT the build went smoothly.  Unfortunately, it doesn’t actually work.

For the record, the reason I even tried to build 0.9.0 is that 0.7.0 (the standard Ubuntu package) fails as follows:

ron@ubuntu1:~$ /usr/bin/openocd -f stm32f3x.cfg 
Open On-Chip Debugger 0.7.0 (2013-10-22-08:31)
Licensed under GNU GPL v2
For bug reports, read
	http://openocd.sourceforge.net/doc/doxygen/bugs.html
Warn : Interface already configured, ignoring
Error: already specified hl_layout stlink
Error: session's transport is already selected.
Runtime Error: embedded:startup.tcl:20: 
in procedure 'script' 
at file "embedded:startup.tcl", line 58
at file "stm32f3x.cfg", line 5
in procedure 'transport' called at file "stm32f3x.cfg", line 4
in procedure 'ocd_bouncer' 
at file "embedded:startup.tcl", line 20

0.9.0 fails in a similar but more spectacular fashion.  It produces 7962 lines of error messages, starting with:

Open On-Chip Debugger 0.9.0-rc1 (2015-12-29-11:05)
Licensed under GNU GPL v2
For bug reports, read
	http://openocd.org/doc/doxygen/bugs.html
Warn : Interface already configured, ignoring
Error: already specified hl_layout stlink
Warn : Transport "hla_swd" was already selected
Warn : Interface already configured, ignoring
Error: already specified hl_layout stlink
Warn : Transport "hla_swd" was already selected

That repeats a few thousand times.  It then transitions:

Warn : Transport "hla_swd" was already selected
Warn : Interface already configured, ignoring
Error: already specified hl_layout stlink
Warn : Transport "hla_swd" was already selected
interface/stlink-v2.cfg:5: Error:
in procedure 'script'
at file "embedded:startup.tcl", line 60
at file "stm32f3x.cfg", line 5
at file "stm32f3x.cfg", line 5

That repeats a few thousand more times, and then it finally ends with:

at file "stm32f3x.cfg", line 3
in procedure 'interface' called at file "interface/stlink-v2.cfg", line 5

The config files look like this:

ron@ubuntu1:~$ more stm32f3x.cfg 
#transport select hla_swd

source [find interface/stlink-v2.cfg]
transport select hla_swd
source [find stm32f3x.cfg]

#reset_config srst_only
ron@ubuntu1:~$ more interface/stlink-v2.cfg 
#
# STMicroelectronics ST-LINK/V2 in-circuit debugger/programmer
#

interface hla
hla_layout stlink
hla_device_desc "ST-LINK/V2"
hla_vid_pid 0x0483 0x3748

# Optionally specify the serial number of ST-LINK/V2 usb device.  ST-LINK/V2
# devices seem to have serial numbers with unreadable characters.  ST-LINK/V2
# firmware version >= V2.J21.S4 recommended to avoid issues with adapter serial
# number reset issues.
# eg.
#hla_serial "\xaa\xbc\x6e\x06\x50\x75\xff\x55\x17\x42\x19\x3f”

FWIW, the hardware seems to be working:

ron@ubuntu1:~$ lsusb
...
Bus 002 Device 008: ID 0483:3748 STMicroelectronics ST-LINK/V2

Again, suggestions on how to proceed would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
rg