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...

Did you try to use openocd? Did you try to use the tool as the root user? Did you try other tools like `st-flash`? What are the permission of the appropriate device file that represents the stlink, search for `/dev/ttyUSB*`? — KamilCuk, Dec 13 '19 at 13:19

Chandran Goodchild · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-28T06:36:23.347

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.

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

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