I can't get the STM32CubeMX perspective to work reliably when running STM32CubeIDE on an Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machine. I always get the pinout view of the device, but the left pane of device features doesn't draw, neither does the row of tabs at the top (should say Pinout & Config, Clock config, Project Manager, Tools). Lots of other stuff works, such as the board selector and compiler, so I doubt it's related to running on a VM.
I've tried many variations:
· Ubuntu 20.04 (although that's not listed in the versions tested by ST, whereas 18.04 is claimed to work)
· Different JVMs including the latest OpenJDK 8, OpenJDK 11, Oracle JDK 8, editing stm32cubeide.ini as appropriate and confirming that they're in use through the Installation Details dialog
· Windows and Mac OS hosts
· Different RAM sizes.
· Upgrading GTK
The problem can always be reproduced by creating a freshly installed Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machine.
· Create a new Virtualbox VM from Ubuntu 18.04 .iso, 64-bit, 4GB RAM, 20GB hard drive.
· Allow Ubuntu to install on the guest, minimal installation, typical defaults.
· Allow the guest to install any available updates.
· Install guest additions
· Install STM32CubeIDE 1.3.0 Debian bundle from ST.
· cd /opt/st/stm32cubeide_1.3.0
· sudo ./stm32cubeide
· Accept default workspace path
· The Information centre shows, but wait for it to discover pending updates. It finds an update to version 1.3.1, allow it to install.
· Manually restart STM32CubeIDE so you can run as sudo. It displays version 1.3.1.
· File / New STM32 Project. The STM32 target selector downloads a heap of stuff and displays correctly. Use the board selector to create a new project for a Nucleo F072 board, project name = test1, default options.
· The firmware package downloads and the project is created, but the STM32CubeMx perspective is broken and unusable. The java process consumes 100% CPU time and continues to do so until I quit STM32CubeIDE. I suspect it’s entering some infinite loop.
On the same VM I can install the standalone STM32CubeMX and it works every time (with openjdk-8).
In STM32CubeIDE the board selector, editor and compiler all work perfectly so I doubt it’s anything to do with any of the VM settings or a broken Ubuntu installation. In any case I’ve tried reinstalling Ubuntu a few times and it’s always the same result.
