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Some weird CCS bugs/problems

Luis Afonso
Guru 20670 points

Other Parts Discussed in Thread: ENERGIA, TM4C123GH6PM

Hello everyone,

So yesterday I had some peps using CCS for the first time. But some of them encountered problems that I could not solve at the time and could not reproduce in my computer later.
This was using CCS V6.1.0 and importing Energia sketchs from v15.

1 problem was:

  • 1 computer could build fine but when tried to debug it gave the error, now bare with me that I can't check so I have to say on the top of my head, "could not find symbol "setup" ". 
  • Then 2 computers had the problem that they couldn't control the program flow on the board. It connected to the board but simply the play, pause, step over, etc were all grayed out.

I checked on all computers and the drivers seemed fine.

Also 1 problem I have in CCS on linux:

Every time I use simple perspective the IDE ends up crashing. Not only that while working the drop down windows show 1 or no options to select (like  "projec" does not show anything to select", nor "file")

I can try to ask for more info on the OS and such. Is there any solution to these problems or some are known bugs?
Sorry if I couldn't give out more information right of the bat

  • Guru 92251 points

    Luis Afonso said:
    It connected to the board but simply the play, pause, step over, etc were all grayed out.

    There is a known problem with the CCS Simple perspective which can cause those debug buttons to be grayed out. See https://e2e.ti.com/support/development_tools/code_composer_studio/f/81/t/410823#pi316318=2 for a description of the problem and a work-around.

  • in reply to Chester Gillon
    Guru 20670 points
    Thanks Chester :D

    Now just to know why the setup was not a known symbol :o
  • in reply to Luis Afonso
    Guru 20670 points
    Wanted to add one more thing:

    Normally when I work on CCS I have no problems but I noticed when using a workspace with Energia Sketches that it doesn't load up properly. Like every window, option on drop down window is just a gray panel, like it didn't load, after some time or passing the mouse over the area will "uncover it".
  • TI__Guru**** 173310 points

    Luis Afonso said:
    1 computer could build fine but when tried to debug it gave the error, now bare with me that I can't check so I have to say on the top of my head, "could not find symbol "setup" ". 

    Could you provide more details about this error? A screenshot or output of the console captured to a text file would be helpful.

    Luis Afonso said:
    Every time I use simple perspective the IDE ends up crashing. Not only that while working the drop down windows show 1 or no options to select (like  "projec" does not show anything to select", nor "file")

    Sounds like these issues are specific to Linux as I have not seen them on Windows. There are a couple of known issues on Linux in specific scenarios. Which linux distro are you using? And which target device/emulator?

  • in reply to AartiG
    Guru 20670 points

    Hi AartiG,

    Thanks for reading.

    About the "could not find symbol setup" I have to see if I can meet the person with that computer.

    AartiG said:
    Sounds like these issues are specific to Linux as I have not seen them on Windows. There are a couple of known issues on Linux in specific scenarios. Which linux distro are you using? And which target device/emulator?



    I am using Linux mint 17.1 with Cinnamon. 
    The board was the TM4C123 launchpad, it has a TM4C123GH6PM MCU and the emulator is the ICDI stellaris programmer (if I am not mistaken that's the name)

  • TI__Guru**** 173310 points

    Thank you for providing the additional details about the Linux distribution and target device.

    Luis Afonso said:
    Every time I use simple perspective the IDE ends up crashing. Not only that while working the drop down windows show 1 or no options to select (like  "projec" does not show anything to select", nor "file")

    So the issues with CCS crashing and the drop down menus not showing anything only happen with the CCS Simple perspective? And does CCS consistently crash when performing a particular action or sequence of actions? If so, what exactly triggers the crash?
    Do these issues only occur when importing Energia sketches or also when working with CCS projects?

    With so many choices of Linux distributions, we are not able to test and support CCS on every one. However, we can try to check if the issue is reproducible on some of the more common supported distributions.