UNIFLASH: Uniflash Cannot read property "DS" of undefined

Hello Mike,

Which processor are you using Uniflash to program?

Regards,

Nick

Hi Nick,

I have an MSP432E401Y and an XDS110 Debug Probe.  I can't get a ds.log file from it.

Regards,

-Mike

Hello Mike,

I am sending your thread to the MSP team. Please ping the thread if they do not reply in a day or so.

Regards,

Nick

Hi Mike,

Have you tried running Uniflash in Administrator mode or tried other connection methods? This seems to be a UniFlash issue as it spans other devices, here is a similar thread that could help with different debugging issues. Cannot read property 'DS' of undefined. Also making sure that UniFlash is the most updated version could help.

Regards,

Luke

Hi Luke,

I've tried your suggestions without resolve.  Is DS some kind of background server task?  If so can we run it from a command line with some kind of verbose output?

-Regards,

-Mike

Mike,

Let's see if we can get to the bottom of what is going on.

Based on your initial post am I correct to understand that this was working fine before and then stopped working?

Which version of UniFlash are you running?

Do you also happen to have Code Composer Studio installed?  If so is it able to connect and load the program ok?

Regards,

John

Hi John,

It was working before.  I've tried going back to older revisions with the same result.  I'm currently running uniflash_sl.6.4.0.3394.  Code Composer CCS10.4.0.00006_win64 still works. Also the Standalone Command Line utility is working.

Regards,

-Mike

Mike,

Those are the latest versions.  It seems like something is blocking the UniFlash browser-based GUI from communicating with the backend.  The command-line utility uses the backend directly.  I will see if I can loop in our UniFlash expert to dig into more.

Regards,

John

In talking with our UniFlash expert that "socket error" is concerning and likely means that something is blocking communication between the GUI and debug server.

Could you give the cloud version a quick try to see if it has the same problem.

It can be accessed here: https://dev.ti.com/uniflash

The GUI looks the same.

Do you know what security software you have installed?  Maybe it logs what it is blocking and we can try to tell it that the processes used by UniFlash are trusted.

Regards,

John

John,

I tried the cloud version yesterday and it had the same result.  Is the socket local ,outbound or both?  Will a blocked outbound connection cause this issue?  Just need to know what to focus on.

Regards,

-Mike

Mike,

It is a local socket.  ws://127.0.0.1

Could there have been an IT change that started blocking unsecure sockets?

Regards,

John

John,

I see no activity in the security software logs.  I have a feeling the server is failing to start. Can I run it manually as a test?  The dslite.bat utility works that's in the Uniflash folder.

Regards,

-Mike

Mike,

Let me try to pull in some others to debug further.

John

Mike,

We have a couple of things to try.

First let's see if the cloudagent can start up the server.

Open a command prompt.

Then go to <uniflash install dir>/TICloudAgentHostApp

run ticloudagent.bat

What does it output?  It should show a port, version and buildversion.

Next we can edit the ticloudagent.bat to enable some logging.  Remove the comment from lines 3 and 4 to enable logging.  THis should generate a my_ticld.log in your temporary directory.  Could you attach that?

Regards,

John

Hi John,

Here are the results.

C:\ti\uniflash_6.4.0\TICloudAgentHostApp>ticloudagent.bat
4{"port":1138,"version":"4.11","buildVersion":"3394"}

Regards,

-Mike

2021-10-07T18:09:04.938Z: main_chrome: Staring directory = C:\ti\uniflash_6.4.0\TICloudAgentHostApp\src
2021-10-07T18:09:04.990Z: Starting Agent!
2021-10-07T18:09:05.003Z: Module( Agent )->Web socket server started!
2021-10-07T18:09:25.373Z: Overridden Proxy = 
2021-10-07T18:09:26.013Z: Discovered Module : DeviceDetector
2021-10-07T18:09:26.074Z: Discovered Module : DS
2021-10-07T18:09:26.139Z: Discovered Module : EventBroker
2021-10-07T18:09:26.248Z: Discovered Module : File
2021-10-07T18:09:26.309Z: Failed to load module : rex_redirect.js : Error: Cannot find module '../../../../tirex4/ti-rex-core/cloud-agent-module'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:547:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:474:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:596:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\ti\uniflash_6.4.0\TICloudAgentHostApp\src\modules\rex_redirect.js:3:19)
    at Module._compile (module.js:652:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:663:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:565:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:505:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:497:3)
2021-10-07T18:09:26.373Z: rov_server_redirect: looking in: C:\ti\eclipse\dropins
2021-10-07T18:09:26.379Z: rov_server_redirect: looking in: C:\ti\eclipse\plugins
2021-10-07T18:09:26.384Z: rov_server_redirect: looking in: C:\ti\eclipse\Eclipse.app\Contents\Eclipse\dropins
2021-10-07T18:09:26.391Z: rov_server_redirect: looking in: C:\ti\eclipse\Eclipse.app\Contents\Eclipse\plugins
2021-10-07T18:09:26.397Z: Failed to load module : rov_server_redirect.js : Error: rov_server.js was not found (this is expected in cloud)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\ti\uniflash_6.4.0\TICloudAgentHostApp\src\modules\rov_server_redirect.js:65:11)
    at Module._compile (module.js:652:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:663:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:565:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:505:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:497:3)
    at Module.require (module.js:596:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
    at module_1.createModule.then (C:\ti\uniflash_6.4.0\TICloudAgentHostApp\src\host_agent.js:23:42)
    at <anonymous>
2021-10-07T18:09:27.853Z: Discovered Module : Serial
2021-10-07T18:09:27.914Z: Discovered Module : TargetSupport
2021-10-07T18:09:27.981Z: Discovered Module : USB
2021-10-07T18:09:28.228Z: Discovered Module : USB-HID
2021-10-07T18:09:28.235Z: Agent main module running on port 21047
2021-10-07T18:09:28.240Z: len=
2021-10-07T18:09:28.246Z: 5
2021-10-07T18:09:28.252Z: buf=
2021-10-07T18:09:28.257Z: {"port":21047,"version":"4.11","buildVersion":"3394"}

It is starting up ok from what I can tell.  The rex_redirect and rov_server errors are fine as we are running from UniFlash and not CCS.

Odd that the port number is different in the log than the console.  Maybe those were from different runs?

It was different runs. One before the batch file change and then after the change. I'm starting to wonder if it is a java issue. IT has been scrubbing computers because of the license change with java, though other java dependent tools continue to work. Another thought is configuration settings. I noticed Uniflash picks up old settings after uninstalling all the Uniflash installs then re-installing.  How do we purge out anything related to Uniflash?  Registry settings, temp files etc...  The thought here is that it uses some corrupted settings value.

Are you open to doing a webex?  We could try to setup something for tomorrow.

Regards,

John

Anytime after 12PM EST.

Doesn't look like we were able to get something that works for today.  Hopefully the time Ruben booked for Tuesday works.  Monday is a holiday for us as we are in Canada.

John