Error trying to launch STM32CubeIDE on linux!

[RBamf.1]

I have installed the STM32CubeIDE 1.12.0 from the STM32 official website onto my Arch Linux laptop but when i try to launch it, it closes and reports an error after the splash screen.

I have searched on pacman (the arch package manager) for stm32cubeide too, but they are having the same error too. See the comments section on https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/stm32cubeide

Here is the error:

[ri@r Desktop]$ /opt/st/stm32cubeide_1.12.0/stm32cubeide_wayland
SWT WebKitGDBus: error creating DBus server Error binding to address (GUnixSocketAddress): No such file or directory
SWT WebKit: error initializing DBus server, dBusServer == 0
 
(STM32CubeIDE:9473): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 16:40:15.499: g_dbus_server_get_client_address: assertion 'G_IS_DBUS_SERVER (server)' failed
#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007fd88683ed16, pid=9473, tid=9474
#
# JRE version: OpenJDK Runtime Environment Temurin-11.0.17+8 (11.0.17+8) (build 11.0.17+8)
# Java VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM Temurin-11.0.17+8 (11.0.17+8, mixed mode, tiered, compressed oops, g1 gc, linux-amd64)
# Problematic frame:
# C [libswt-gtk-4950r5.so+0x3ed16] Java_org_eclipse_swt_internal_C_strlen+0xf
#
# Core dump will be written. Default location: Core dumps may be processed with "/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-coredump %P %u %g %s %t %c %h" (or dumping to /home/richard/Desktop/core.9473)
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# /home/r/Desktop/hs_err_pid9473.log
Compiled method (nm) 9481 5616 n 0 org.eclipse.swt.internal.C::strlen (native)
 total in heap [0x00007fd917d3c190,0x00007fd917d3c530] = 928
 relocation [0x00007fd917d3c308,0x00007fd917d3c338] = 48
 main code [0x00007fd917d3c340,0x00007fd917d3c528] = 488
 oops [0x00007fd917d3c528,0x00007fd917d3c530] = 8
Compiled method (nm) 9486 5616 n 0 org.eclipse.swt.internal.C::strlen (native)
 total in heap [0x00007fd917d3c190,0x00007fd917d3c530] = 928
 relocation [0x00007fd917d3c308,0x00007fd917d3c338] = 48
 main code [0x00007fd917d3c340,0x00007fd917d3c528] = 488
 oops [0x00007fd917d3c528,0x00007fd917d3c530] = 8
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
# https://github.com/adoptium/adoptium-support/issues
# The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code.
# See problematic frame for where to report the bug.
#

And the error report file is attached below.

[Janek1]

Installing the webkitgtk-6.0 package solved this issue for me on Arch.

[JHenz.1]

Having the identical error on Fedora 38 using both the generic install and the RPM. I have  webkit2gtk4.1 installed and get the same dump

[Janek1]

Update on this (with some solutions i found in the AUR comments / forum):

The issue is indeed in an incompatibility in webkit2gtk and eclipse. In an earlier post i said that installing webkitgtk-6.0 solved the issue, seems like it didn't.

But i have found a new solution which is removing webkit2gtk from your system (has to be done with pacman -Rdd otherwise cubeide will be removed as well). This breaks browser functionality in eclipse (which i don't really know what its supposed to be and have probably never used, so yea i'm fine with that). Someone else mentioned swapping webkit2gtk for chromium, which i guess could work, but i didn't bother trying. If you're interested in this you can probably find the comment (which also contained a link) in the comments of the AUR package.

[PGump.1]

Hello,

I want to start working with STM32WB55 micros.

Some time ago, with much trial-and-error, I installed STM32CubeIDE V1.8.0 on to my Suse-tumbleweed computer. It mostly works well (ask me for details if you want to know more). This installation type DOES NOT allow updates.

I downloaded STMCubeIDE V1.12.1 (generic linux), and installed it the same manner as above. It installs without complaining. But it does NOT run - it seems to start okay, prompts me for the "workspace", but shortly after java dies...

My java version is:-

openjdk 17.0.7 2023-04-18

OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 17.0.7+0-suse-1.1-x8664)

OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 17.0.7+0-suse-1.1-x8664, mixed mode, sharing)

My STM32CubeIDE V1.8.0 still works as it did.

Can anyone help me?

Thanking you

Pedro

[squiggle]

I can help. And I say this in the most serious, sincere, and non-sarcastic way possible.

Get rid of STM32CubeIDE and any other Eclipse-based IDE. Install VSCode or Geany or literally any other IDE besides Eclipse. Then install and use STM32CubeMX to generate your code to load into the better IDE.

[PGump.1]

Thanks for your comments @squiggle. It may come to that...

[AKoch.6]

Seems to be same issue:

community.st.com/s/question/0D53W00002FDNNJSA5/can-no-longer-create-a-new-workspace-stm32cubeide-1121

[AKoch.6]

Marcelo Jimenez Shellscript (fix_stm32cubeide) worked for me

[PGump.1]

Thanks @AKoch.6, "fix_stm32cubeide" fixed it for me too. :grinning_face:

I had the same issue and this line of the error message caught my eye:

SWT WebKitGDBus: error creating DBus server Error binding to address (GUnixSocketAddress): No such file or directory

I looked into the source code of SWT to find out where this error happens. I saw it wants to open a directory named 

/tmp/SWT-GDBusServer

 and throws the error if it doesn't exist. so I manually created this directory and to my surprise it fixed the issue.

mkdir '/tmp/SWT-GDBusServer'

[cozj]

thank you so much, creating the missing folder

fixed the problem i can now succesfully launch the last version !

the fix was surprisingly really easy