CCS4 debugger not starting correctly

HI Simas,

from what I can tell from your screen capture, the project you created is not a CCS project, but a generic eclipse project.  This might be the issue.

COuld you please see if things work if you start from File->New->CCS Project.

Please keep us informed.

Best Regards,
Lisa

The project was started with File->New->CCS Project. However as it was imported from IAR i did attempt to create a new project, but debbuger would still not start correctly. Also i tried opening the project on another computer which has the same version of CCS installed. Debugger loaded without problems there. Also i took a project of my coleague which was made on his pc and that project also failed to load on mine. Might be worth mentioning that i had also encountered http://e2e.ti.com/support/development_tools/code_composer_studio/f/81/t/123384.aspx problem and used the provided solution before. 

HI Simas,

ok, did it work previously or have you always had this issue?  Do you get any error messages at all or are any logs generated (see the link to the wiki topic)?  On computers where the project works is the environment the same?  Was the import done the same?  Typically there is usually at least a bit of work needed to migrate something from IAR to CCS as they are two different compilers and therefore there are differences in the directives etc.  Have you tried reapplying the fix you referenced in case something has changed the redistributable C versions on you PC?

http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Troubleshooting_CCS

Please keep us informed.

Best REgards,

LIsa

I have tried all the suggestions mentioned in the wiki before and retried them now. Problem still persists. I have had this problem since installing CCS. It should not be related to code migration since the other project and a test hello world project i made after your first post have been made on CCS. Enviroment is exactly the same (Version: 4.2.4.00033). No error messages popup or appear on the console. the only output console provides is MSP430: [Program loaded. Code Size - Text: 4990 bytes  Data: 64 bytes]. Also no new information is generated on the logs when starting a debug session (except debug server log which repeatedly spams the text shown below after copying the program to the cpu). Also i reinstalled the MSVC fix whch also shown no improvement.

0x0000073C 5  COM_DBG_IF C: dsDebugger::Poll()
0x0000073C 4 MSP430 POLL I: TimeToPollAgain() target is idle and needs polling in 0 ms
0x0000073C 3 MSP430 POLL C: Polling with state STATE_IDLE and status EVENT_DSP_HALT
0x0000073C 3 MSP430 SYNC C: IsSyncReady(): syncAction = 0x00000000, syncSetup = 0x00000000, syncState = SYNC_FREE_RUN
0x0000073C 3 MSP430 SYNC R: IsSyncReady() = 0: syncAction = 0x00000000, syncSetup = 0x00000000, syncState = SYNC_FREE_RUN
0x0000073C 3 MSP430 GTI C: GTI_STAT_EX2( 0x215B6E28, 0x2004F608 )
0x0000073C 3 MSP430 GTI R: GTI_STAT_EX2( 0x215B6E28, *0x2004F608 = { 0x6, 0x100, 0x202, 0x0, 0x400, 0x0, 0x0, 0x1000, } ) = 0
0x0000073C 3 MSP430 STATE I: Target execution state changed to STATUS_HW_BKPT_HIT
0x0000073C 3 MSP430 POLL R: Poll() returning
0x0000073C 4 MSP430 POLL I: TimeToPollAgain() target is idle and needs polling in 5000 ms
0x0000073C 4  POLL I: TimeToSleep() found shorter sleep time of 5000 ms from class DevicePollFrequencyManager
0x0000073C 5  COM_DBG_IF R: dsDebugger::Poll(timeToNextPoll = 5000) = S_OK .

Hi Simas,

if possible I am going to see what we can digest from these logs. 

So is the screenshot what you see when you click the debug button?  (This is the button that looks like a green bug)  Have you selected this button?

Have you been able to tell whether the code does load as your console message seems to indicate?

What might be unique to your setup that your setup seems to be doing this where others don't?

Best Regards,
Lisa

Yes. the view in the screenshot is the one i see after clicking debug button. Also i am unable to verify if the code was successfully downloaded but i think that either it fails to download or CCS fails to finish the download process, because debugger interface still had MODE led active (which, to my knowledge, usually implies device is busy). also i am unable to provide the logs at the moment because i left the office for today.

Hi Simas,

I just wanted to check whether Patricks tip was helpful.  It does seem like you managed to get the views into a bit of a confused state.

Best Regards,

Lisa

Yes it did indeed answer my question. Sorry for slacking on verifying it :)

No problem, glad to hear.

Best Regards,

Lisa