Installation Issues - Infinite Loop

[thayden]

I've got a brand new VM running Windows 11 pretty much off the shelf. I can install and run Cube IDE but when I try to install the STM32CubeProgrammer (64 bit version) I get into an infinite loop where the following happens:

- It opens the Install Wizard which then closes

- It opens the blue "STM32 Cube Programmer" window, which then closes

- It opens the Install Wizard which then closes

Here is a video of the behavior: https://www.loom.com/share/b3ce5e7a79ad425d840296845fd0c1ed

The only way I can exit this loop is to reset the whole machine. It's not installed, so I can't uninstall it. I tried removing everything, upgrading java, and still the same problem. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you!

[Maryem]

Hello @thayden,

Sorry for the late reply. 

I have tested the installation of STM32CubeProg 2.15.0 on Windows 11 and did not encounter the issue described. I even tried with a freshly installed VM, and everything seems to be working fine. Did the same behavior occur with older versions ?

Maryem.

[FArdi.1]

Just an update:

Problem is still there using new version STM32CubeProgrammer v2.16.0. After installing, the program is not responding after I click OK button. See attached pic.

I need to force close from task manager. The next time I run the CubeProgrammer, it auto-closed by itself after showing the blue welcome screen for about 2 seconds.

At least the workaround method is still working:

jre\bin\java.exe -Djna.nosys=true -jar STM32CubeProgrammer.exe

[Talia]

I encountered the same issue on a freshly setup Windows 11 VM.

I was finally able to get the installation to go through by somewhat dumb luck. I'm not sure if it's reproducible because the process was too annoying to bear repeating. I got it to interrupt the loop by ctrl-alt-del in host followed by vm.

• System java version: 1.8.0_265 (extracted from bundled win64_v2-7-0 installer) *
• started win64_v2-7-0 installer (observed installer crash/restart loop for 5-10 secs)
• accidentally pressed ctrl + alt + delete (caused host system ctrl + alt + delete menu to come up)
• pressed cancel
• VM menu -> Insert -> Ctrl-Alt-Del
• installer crash loop stops, expected screen with "next" and "cancel" options appears
• install as normal

I tried most combinations of the following versions of installer/jre in 32 and 64 bit: **

installers:

en.stm32cubeprog_v2-5-0 ***

en.stm32cubeprg-win64_v2-7-0

en.stm32cubeprg-win64-v2-17-0

en.stm32cubeprg-win32_v2-7-0

en.stm32cubeprg-win32-v2-17-0

system java installed ****

none (both before installing any version of java and after removing JAVA_HOME and all java/bin from PATH)

openjdk 1.8.0_265 (extracted from bundled cubeprg-win64_v2-7-0 installer)

amazon-corretto-8.422.05.1-windows-x86-jre

amazon-corretto-8.422.05.1-windows-x86-jdk

amazon-corretto-8.422.05.1-windows-x64-jre

amazon-corretto-8.422.05.1-windows-x64-jdk

openjdk-11.0.2_windows-x64_bin

openjdk-17.0.2_windows-x64_bin

amazon-corretto-21.0.4.7.1-windows-x64-jdk

openjdk-22.0.2_windows-x64_bin

* note: The installer should not require any jre/jdk, but I experimented with many different versions because it seemed like javaw was crashing while starting the installer.

** in addition to underlying system java, I experimented with extracting the original stm32cubeprogrammer installer .exes and replacing the contained jre with various versions from above before running the extracted .exe

*** note: does not come bundled with jre. fails to start, citing requiring JRE 1.8.0_66-10.99.99. Attempted with jre/jdk 1.8.0_422, and jre 11, 17, 21, 22

**** note: java installed by unzipping to a specified folder and updating PATH and JAVA_HOME sys/environment variables