avrdude crashes after every run

[danboid]

I have installed avrdude under Haiku b5 amd64. I have tried using my USB AVR ISPMKII programmer to program my Uzebox and it does work but it crashes at the end of every run.

I have attached a core dump from avrdude after one of these crashes.

[danboid]

The core dump was 12 MB when compressed with xz -9 so I'd need to split it to share it on here.

[waddlesplash]

Just attach the report, please. But odds are this a bug in the avrdude port and not Haiku itself.

[korli]

or a bug in libusb.

[danboid]

Yes was unsure about where to post this tbh but I thought better post it somewhere than not raise it at all. Sorry if this is a packaging bug or whatever which I suppose is just as likely.

I have split that beautiful coredump for you.

This crash not only happens after every run of avrdude, I've also seen it on two different machines, a laptop and a desktop both running b5.

[danboid]

You should be able to uncompress those split files using the command:

cat Haiku-avrdude-usb-core.tar* | tar xvf -

[korli]

danboid, I think waddlesplash asked to just attach the crash report.

[waddlesplash]

Indeed, I don't want the core file.

[danboid]

avrdude crash report

[waddlesplash]

Could be a bug either in libusb or the USB Kit, not immediately clear from the report.

[danboid]

I dunno if it helps you at all but the avrdude command I'm using is:

avrdude -c avrispmkII -P usb -p m644 -U flash:w:Bootloader5.hex

See ​https://uzebox.org/wiki/Avrdude

Haiku is almost the optimal platform for Uzebox devs. I think it would be if we could fix this.

It is arguably easier to build the Uzebox repo under Haiku than Linux because I can install Haiku faster than most if not all Linux distros, Windows and so much faster than macOS its not worth mentioning.

​https://uzebox.org/wiki/Haiku_Software_Installation

[waddlesplash]

Can you please try with the guarded heap?

LD_PRELOAD=libroot_debug.so MALLOC_DEBUG=g program...

[danboid]

Prefixing avrdude with

LD_PRELOAD=libroot_debug.so MALLOC_DEBUG=g

Didn't stop it from crashing after running.

[waddlesplash]

I meant to generate a new debug report and attach it here with the guarded heap; it should crash in a different place and/or with a different message.

[danboid]

New debug report attached. Please excuse the incorrect date.

[waddlesplash]

There does appear to be at least one issue with the USB Kit here at least.

[pulkomandy]

I have not seen crashes in a while, but I think I don't own an avrispmk2 compatible device. So maybe I didn't test this specific combination and avrdude is working fine with other programmer types (I use mainly an stk500 development board, and lufa bootloader these days)

[waddlesplash]

PulkoMandy: can you try with the guarded heap with one of the devices you do have and see if a similar crash occurs anyway?

[pulkomandy]

The stk500 is accessed through a serial port and doesn't use libusb. I'll see if I can find and test one of my devices using a bootloader

[pulkomandy]

I checked again and I have no problems with avrdude with the guarded heap, but all my devices are programmed through serial interfaces, not needing avrdude to use any USB libraries.

[danboid]

How about I buy a cheap USB AVR programmer and if I still have the same problem with it under Haiku I can send it to you, if you are willing to send me your address?

[pulkomandy]

I could easily buy or build one myself. In fact I have two usb-asp programmers, but both seem broken. I don't really have time to investigate these things at the moment. And no interest in adding more hardware to my junk pile. It will just sit there for a few years while I continue using my perfectly working serial port based one, so that will not really help.