Can not start STM32CubeProgrammer under Debian

[Cedric Boudinet]

Posted on January 11, 2018 at 11:54

Under Linux Debian Stretch:

- if I use the shortcut nothing happens

- if I type ./STMicroelectronics/STM32Cube/STM32CubeProgrammer/bin/STM32CubeProgrammerLauncher,

I have this error message: Error: Could not find or load main class com.st.app.Main

What should I do in order to run Cube Programmer ?

Regards

Cedric

[AvaTar]

Posted on January 11, 2018 at 12:08

I would guess it is not properly installed.

Most installations under Unix/Linux require root priviledges, usually realized via

sudo

.

[Cedric Boudinet]

Posted on January 11, 2018 at 16:36

I reinstalled it with sudo, but I still have the same error message:

/usr/local/STMicroelectronics/STM32Cube/STM32CubeProgrammer/bin/STM32CubeProgrammerLauncher

gives Error: Could not find or load main class com.st.app.Main

[AvaTar]

Posted on January 11, 2018 at 18:31

This was just an idea, I don't use this tool.

The announcement thread was flooded by a large amount of complaints and bug reports - I guess the test on Linux where flimsy as usual (to say the least...).

[Aymen Abderrahmen]

Posted on January 12, 2018 at 02:37

Hi Cédric,

You are surely using OpenJDK, which is unsupported. Please install oracle Java or install Openjfx package (sudo apt-get install openjfx).

BR,  

Aymen.

[Cedric Boudinet]

Posted on January 12, 2018 at 09:41

It works after installing openjfx

Thanks a lot

Bests

[AvaTar]

Posted on January 12, 2018 at 12:07

As a general advice, you can always start a Linux GUI app from the terminal, which should give you indicative warnings/error messages in such cases.

[Roman Priesol]

Hi guys, did you resolved this error? I am getting the same (oracle jdk-11 with openjfx)...

> ./STM32CubeProgrammer

JavaFX Installed

chdir /opt/STM32CubeProgrammer/bin

current dir /opt/STM32CubeProgrammer/bin

Error: Could not find or load main class com.st.app.Main

Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javafx/application/Application

[Dean Perry]

Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javafx/application/Application

that's your problem there - you say you have installed JavaFX - investigate _which_ JREs you have installed (and which one has access to JavaFX libraries).

On my Ubuntu box there are several and I am required to use a command called "update-java-alternatives" to select the appropriate one depending on which java based application I am using.

[Roman Priesol]

Sure, I know. It uses JDK11 and JavaFX is installed. Other JavaFX applications works without any problems.

[Lars Beiderbecke]

I have the same problem now, after upgrading to Java 11. openjfx is installed, and shows version 11. CubeProgrammer was working fine with Java 8.

Is CubeProgrammer incompatible with Java 11? :(

[Dean Perry]

Well, I upgraded to (K)Ubuntu 18.10 and can no longer get it to work using update-java-alternatives - even (especially?) with openjdk-11 which has openjfx installed. Tried a few things to get this going unsuccessfully: a PPA for Ubuntu that installs Oracle JDK8 - alas not functional today; also version 1.4.0 of the STMCubeProgrammer.

Interesting wrinkles are that the Trusted Package Creator launches from the shell and appears to work and appears to be using OpenJFX.

The STM32_programmer_CLI works fine on 18.10 - I just programmed a board with it.

I note with some interest in the 1.4.0 install there's a C++ library with a Qt example...

[Aymen Abderrahmen]

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[ADry]

Hi,

I have some problems with launch CubeProg from Ubuntu.

$ ./STM32CubeProgrammer

/usr/local/STMicroelectronics/STM32CubeProgrammer/bin/STM32CubeProgrammerLauncher

/usr/local/STMicroelectronics/STM32CubeProgrammer/bin

JavaFX NOT installed => warn user

But openjfx installed:

$ dpkg -l | grep openjfx

ii libopenjfx-java                      11.0.2+1-1~18.04.2                     all         JavaFX/OpenJFX - Rich client application platform for Java (Java libraries)

ii libopenjfx-jni                       11.0.2+1-1~18.04.2                     amd64       JavaFX/OpenJFX - Rich client application platform for Java (native libraries)

ii openjfx                              11.0.2+1-1~18.04.2                     amd64       JavaFX/OpenJFX - Rich client application platform for Java

ii openjfx-source                       11.0.2+1-1~18.04.2                     all         JavaFX/OpenJFX - Rich client application platform for Java (sources)

$ update-java-alternatives -l

java-1.11.0-openjdk-amd64     1111      /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.11.0-openjdk-amd64

Please any help!

[ADry]

SOLVED.

Need doungrade jdk & jfx

# apt install apt install openjdk-8-jdk openjfx=8u161-b12-1ubuntu2 libopenjfx-java=8u161-b12-1ubuntu2 libopenjfx-jni=8u161-b12-1ubuntu2

than

# update-alternatives --config java

and set java-8-openjdk

And hold the version:

echo "openjfx hold"|dpkg --set-selections ; echo "libopenjfx-java hold"|dpkg --set-selections ; \

echo "libopenjfx-jni hold"|dpkg --set-selections ; echo "openjfx-source hold"|dpkg --set-selections

[RLK]

I received the same error message from STM32CubeProgrammer 2.0.1 after upgrading Debian 9 "Stretch" (JRE v8) to Debian 10 "Buster" (JRE v11). I attempted to downgrade back to JRE/JFX v8:

$ sudo apt install openjdk-8-jdk openjdk-8-jre openjfx=8u111-b14-1 libopenjfx-java=8u111-b14-1 libopenjfx-jni=8u111-b14-1

STM32CubeProgrammer briefly started, but then crashed:

# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007ffb4b334ef8, pid=27084, tid=0x00007ffb9d9ef700
#
# JRE version: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (8.0_212-b01) (build 1.8.0_212-8u212-b01-1~deb9u1-b01)
# Java VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (25.212-b01 mixed mode linux-amd64 compressed oops)
# Problematic frame:
# C [libjfxwebkit.so+0x1883ef8]

What worked for me was a wrapper script specifying Oracle JRE 8 64bit, as detailed in this thread:

https://community.st.com/s/question/0D50X00009q3X4jSAE/stm32cubeprogrammer-for-linux

Original script reproduced below. I downloaded jre-8u212-linux-x64.tar.gz and modified the script to suit.

 #!/bin/bash
 
 # Set path of Oracle JRE 8
 JAVA_HOME=/opt/jre1.8.0_202-amd64/
 
 PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin/:$PATH
 
 # Unpack libraries, if necessary
 cd $JAVA_HOME/lib
 if [ ! -f rt.jar ]; then
 ../bin/unpack200 rt.pack rt.jar
 fi
 if [ ! -f jsse.jar ]; then
 ../bin/unpack200 jsse.pack jsse.jar
 fi
 if [ ! -f charsets.jar ]; then
 ../bin/unpack200 charsets.pack charsets.jar
 fi
 
 # CHeck Java version
 java -version
 
 # Start STM32 Cube Programmer
 cd /opt/STM32CubeProgrammer
 bin/STM32CubeProgrammer