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I imported, built and ran the F5529LP OutofBox code limited demo from the "Development Tools" section of MSP430Ware following the 4 steps given in the Resource Explorer dialog. I also did the build and run using the CCS UI after using the Resource Explorer dialog just to create the project. In between I deleted the projects from disk, not just the project list.
When I started debug on the code it stopped at the watchdog line. I then resumed execution. CentOS then automatically mounted the mass storage device and brought up a file manager box showing the files on the device. I did this 5-6 times after it crashed the first time trying to sort out what the 4 steps were doing and trying to find out where the Resource Explorer was getting its instructions so I could see what they were.
In the process of doing this I built and ran the entire demo successfully several times. I got both button 1 & 2 to display text in the console window. But on one occasion, pressing button 1 caused Linux to crash and on the other, pressing button 2 caused it to crash. In both cases the console was the active focus. On one occasion the source code editor was the active focus and "hello world" was inserted in the source code which I then removed, changed focus and then pressed buttons 1 & 2 in the console tab without problems. The last time it crashed I had just pressed button 1 twice, gotten "hello world" twice. It then crashed when I pressed button 2. I had touched neither mouse nor keyboard between pressing the 2 buttons.
/var/crash was empty and /var/log/messages showed nothing from the time of the button 1 crash. I didn't bother to look after the last crash. While I am aware that other people seem to accept such behavior, I do not.
There are a very large number of Linux distros. I tried several with unsatisfactory results until I tried CentOS 6.5. That seemed to work with all the packages (e.g. Energia, OpenOCD, CCS, etc) I was interested in trying out. After fooling around with the other packages and several ARM boards, I decided it was time to play with the F5529LP and try CCS. It may well work with OpenSUSE, but I'm tired of installing and configuring Linux distros just to discover that B now works, but A is broken. I'll try CCS again when 6.1 comes out.
If you've got CCS 6 working properly on Linux be happy and don't change your distro. If you decide to try to replicate what I encountered be careful!
Have Fun!
Reg
FWIW I've been on the calling end of an immediate transfer support call with Sun Microsystems when I had systems hanging at work. Crashing the host is a BIG deal with me. Yes, you will crash a Sun server if you unplug the keyboard (pre-USB) and then plug it back in. But you're not supposed to do that and will only do it once deliberately. Attempting to format a 3 TB disk on Solaris 10_u8 will kernel panic the system, but you get a crash dump and it's logged to /var/adm/messages. No one made 3 TB disks when u8 came out. Other than that, I've never seen a Sun system crash except for hardware faults. That level of reliability was expected of AIX, IRIX, Ultrix, HP-UX and all the other *nix systems I've used except for some supercomputers from Intel and Alliant. Thankfully I managed to a
void intimate contact with those two. So yeah, I'm an old guy with an attitude problem. I expect things to work correctly and for things to be fixed promptly when they
don't.
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Posted by: Reginald Beardsley <[email protected]>
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