Bug 4185

Summary:	arduino does not work
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Jacques Pronchery <jacques.pronchery>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	D Morgan <dmorganec>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	djmarian4u, hazard157, jan, marja11
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	arduino	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Jacques Pronchery 2012-01-18 17:46:14 CET

When lauching arduino there is a message which say we need to be a member
of groups dialout and lock.
For "dialout" it is OK
For "lock" this group do not exists in MCC
But we need also to be member of "uucp"

If clicking on "Add" button it does not write in the groups.
It does not ask yo become root ??

Then we have to choose a directory and after we have not arduino.

I have becomed member of "dialout" and "uucp" and then
I have tested with arduino downloaded from the site and it work.

Manuel Hiebel 2012-01-18 22:37:43 CET

Assignee: bugsquad => dmorganec
Source RPM: Arduino => arduino

Comment 1 D Morgan 2012-01-25 22:36:26 CET

for the lock group, can you install lockdev ?

Comment 2 D Morgan 2012-01-25 22:54:36 CET

i workarounded, i will fix better after

Comment 3 D Morgan 2012-01-25 23:34:32 CET

fixed in next arduino ( using pkexec )

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED

Comment 4 Jacques Pronchery 2012-01-27 14:47:00 CET

I have tested Arduino with java-sun.
The initial configuration works but the group "uucp" is missing.
To be member of "uucp" is needed to uploaded program in hardware.
Then Arduino do not start, I have to install the packages :
   librxtx2.1    and    librxtx-devel
and then Arduino start.
But in the console I have :
[jacques@localhost ~]$ arduino
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: gnu.io.RXTXCommDriver.nativeGetVersion()Ljava/lang/String; thrown while loading gnu.io.RXTXCommDriver
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class gnu.io.RXTXCommDriver thrown while loading gnu.io.RXTXCommDriver
^C[jacques@localhost ~]$ 
and the app do not recognize the hardware.

I have downloaded the soft from the site : it work fine.

Status: RESOLVED => REOPENED
Resolution: FIXED => (none)

Comment 5 D Morgan 2012-02-11 03:42:42 CET

can you test with openjdk ? we don't support sun java

Comment 6 Jacques Pronchery 2012-02-11 10:42:43 CET

The problem is the same with openjdk 1.6 and 1.7
If the pack downloaded from Arduino's site work fine,
it's not a problem of java but the integration of Arduino in Mageia.

Dan Joita 2012-03-07 11:22:15 CET

CC: (none) => djmarian4u
Summary: Arduino do not works => arduino does not work

Comment 7 Teymuraz Khazaradze 2012-03-26 22:17:18 CEST

Actually there were two different issues with Arduino in Beta 1:

1. Setting up user to be member of "dialout" and "lock" groups. Now in Beta 2 starting Arduino asks for adding user to these groups. After slection to add user to groups and entering root password Arduino starts ok.

2. Still not fixed: serial port is not accessible from Ardiono. This is problem with rxtx package. Mageia Beta 2 ships with RXTX version rxtx 2.1-7r2 marked as stable on RXTX download page http://rxtx.qbang.org/wiki/index.php/Download. However, as I found somewhere on forums this version has the bug (at least with java openjdk versions both 1.6 and 1.7). Possible workaround is to use RXTX version 2.2pre2. Although it's marked as prerelease, it works fine both with Arduino and with software, developed in our company.

RXTX download page has following note about 2.2pre2 version "TODO: The 2.2pre2 bins contain the 2.2pre1 jar file and the 2.2pre2 native lib which causes a mismatch warning". 

I downloaded and installed 2.2pre2 version libraries instead of shipped rxtx2.1 and Arduino works fine now.

I think the best solution is use RXTX version 2.2pre2 instead of 2.1.7.2 for following Mageia packages:
  rxtx
  librxtx-devel
  librxtx2.1 (will became librxtx2.2)
  lib64rxtx-devel
  lib64rxtx2.1 (will became librxtx2.2)

CC: (none) => hazard157

Comment 8 Jan Pihlgren 2012-05-10 04:14:43 CEST

Ref to bug 5411 this isn't solved in Mageia 2 RC.

CC: (none) => jan

Comment 9 Marja Van Waes 2012-05-10 08:02:01 CEST

(In reply to comment #8)
> Ref to bug 5411 this isn't solved in Mageia 2 RC.

Thx for the link. I'll close this one as a duplicate because that one contains more information.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 5411 ***

Status: REOPENED => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => marja11
Resolution: (none) => DUPLICATE