CCS: App Center: Failed to create the part's controls

Alexander Rowsell

Tool/software: Code Composer Studio

I have been getting this error since installing the latest version of CCS earlier today (10.1.0.00010) on Manjaro Linux. Everything else works fine, except for anything that uses jxBrowser. After doing some research, I came across a few threads on here that gave possible solutions.

This thread recommends creating a new workspace. Tried that, no effect.
Later in the same thread, and also in this one they recommend removing C:\Users\<loginid>\AppData\Local\JxBrowser and using a new workspace. However, I'm on Linux.

Doing a search for jxBrowser reveals two locations: one in my workspace folder, .jxbrowser-data, and in the install folder, ti/ccs1010/ccs/eclipse/configuration/.jxbrowser-chromium-lib
There is also a jxbrowser jar located at ti/ccs1010/ccs/eclipse/configuration/org.eclipse.osgi/93/0/.cp/lib/jxbrowser-6.21.jar

I tried removing the .jxbrowser-chromium-lib folder. After starting CCS once, the error message was gone but that tab was just blank. After closing it, CCS would not re-open and I had to completely erase the installation folder and create a fresh install to be able to launch CCS. Deleting the .jxbrowser-data folder in the workspace also doesn't seem to have any effect. So now I'm at a loss of what to do next. jxbrowser is also used in Microchip's MPLAB X which works just fine on this exact same Manjaro install.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

EDIT: On a whim, I installed CCS 9.3.0.00012 (the last version 9 for Linux) and the App Center/Welcome Page all work perfectly fine. So it's something CCS10 specific that is causing the issue. Perhaps it's the version of jxBrowser being used? I just checked, and CCS9 and 10 use the same version of the jxBrowser jar, so I guess that can't be it. Anyway, hopefully one of the engineers can figure it out, because I would much rather be using the latest version of CCS.

over 5 years ago

0 Ki over 5 years ago

TI__Guru**** 463941 points

Hello,

What version of Manjaro are you running?

Thanks

0 Alexander Rowsell over 5 years ago in reply to Ki

Intellectual 420 points

Manjaro is a rolling-release distro, based on Arch, so it doesn't have a "version" per se. But all packages are fully updated. If you want to know particular package versions, I'd be happy to get them.

This copy of Manjaro was installed on my brand-new laptop about 2 months ago, been kept updated since then.

0 Ki over 5 years ago in reply to Alexander Rowsell

TI__Guru**** 463941 points

Ok, i'll just grab whatever is on https://manjaro.org/download/

Thanks

0 Alexander Rowsell over 5 years ago in reply to Ki

Intellectual 420 points

If you meant which flavour, I use GNOME. I just realized that's probably what you were asking! Manjaro GNOME, fully updated (sudo pacman -Syyu)

0 Ki over 5 years ago in reply to Alexander Rowsell

TI__Guru**** 463941 points

Thanks. I set up a Manjaro GNOME VM and installed CCS 10.1. I hit the same error you did despite installing whatever dependencies were needed.

I then installed CCS 9.3. I had to install gconf and ncurses dependent packages. Once I did that, 9.3 installed and runs fine (no issues with App Center, Resource Explorer,etc)

Then I re-ran CCS 10.1. Now everything worked (App Center, etc). It must have been resolving the gconf and ncurses dependency for CCS 9.3 that also resolved the issue with CCS 10.1

0 Alexander Rowsell over 5 years ago in reply to Ki

Intellectual 420 points

Hah, I didn't think to try running v10 again after getting v9 working. I did also have to install gconf and ncurses5-compat-libs to get v9 working. Perhaps these should be added to the requirements for v10?

Cheers, thanks for the help!

0 Ki over 5 years ago in reply to Alexander Rowsell

TI__Guru**** 463941 points

Alexander Rowsell said:
I did also have to install gconf and ncurses5-compat-libs to get v9 working. Perhaps these should be added to the requirements for v10?

Yes I'll need to document this. The dependency checker should have picked this up however (and notify you). The only message I got installing CCSv10 on Manjaro is regarding libtinfo. I don't know why it didn't detect the other missing dependencies like the v9 installer does.

Anyway glad to hear the issue is resolved and thanks for the update!

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