make install hangs on battor -k

[gurupras]

I've been running an old version of the BattOr firmware - 3c437f6

I recently tried to update the BattOr firmware to master since I noticed that there were some possibly important commits that I was missing such as 667213f. This failed with an error stating that /dev/ttyUSB0 could not be found. Thus, I tried to dig into this to identify the commit that changed the Makefile in some way. During git bisect, while I was compiling and flashing the firmware present in different commits, one of the commits caused the BattOr to stop responding. I'm not sure which commit this was.

Currently, This is what I get:

avrdude -e -p x192a3u -c avr109 -b 115200 -P /dev/ttyUSB0 -U flash:w:main.hex
avrdude: butterfly_recv(): programmer is not responding

Enabling verbose output, I get:

avrdude -e -p x192a3u -c avr109 -b 115200 -P /dev/ttyUSB0 -U flash:w:main.hex -v -v -v -v -v
avrdude: Version 6.0.1, compiled on Oct 21 2013 at 15:55:32
         Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/
         Copyright (c) 2007-2009 Joerg Wunsch

         System wide configuration file is "/etc/avrdude.conf"
         User configuration file is "/home/guru/.avrduderc"
         User configuration file does not exist or is not a regular file, skipping

         Using Port                    : /dev/ttyUSB0
         Using Programmer              : avr109
         Overriding Baud Rate          : 115200
         AVR Part                      : ATxmega192A3U
         Chip Erase delay              : 0 us
         PAGEL                         : P00
         BS2                           : P00
         RESET disposition             : dedicated
         RETRY pulse                   : SCK
         serial program mode           : yes
         parallel program mode         : yes
         Timeout                       : 0
         StabDelay                     : 0
         CmdexeDelay                   : 0
         SyncLoops                     : 0
         ByteDelay                     : 0
         PollIndex                     : 0
         PollValue                     : 0x00
         Memory Detail                 :

                                  Block Poll               Page                       Polled
           Memory Type Mode Delay Size  Indx Paged  Size   Size #Pages MinW  MaxW   ReadBack
           ----------- ---- ----- ----- ---- ------ ------ ---- ------ ----- ----- ---------
           signature      0     0     0    0 no          3    0      0     0     0 0x00 0x00
             Memory Ops:
               Oeration     Inst Bit  Bit Type  Bitno  Value
               -----------  --------  --------  -----  -----
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           Memory Type Mode Delay Size  Indx Paged  Size   Size #Pages MinW  MaxW   ReadBack
           ----------- ---- ----- ----- ---- ------ ------ ---- ------ ----- ----- ---------
           prodsig        0     0     0    0 no         50   50      0     0     0 0x00 0x00
             Memory Ops:
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               -----------  --------  --------  -----  -----
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           ----------- ---- ----- ----- ---- ------ ------ ---- ------ ----- ----- ---------
           fuse1          0     0     0    0 no          1    0      0     0     0 0x00 0x00
             Memory Ops:
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           fuse2          0     0     0    0 no          1    0      0     0     0 0x00 0x00
             Memory Ops:
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           fuse4          0     0     0    0 no          1    0      0     0     0 0x00 0x00
             Memory Ops:
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           fuse5          0     0     0    0 no          1    0      0     0     0 0x00 0x00
             Memory Ops:
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           lock           0     0     0    0 no          1    0      0     0     0 0x00 0x00
             Memory Ops:
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           data           0     0     0    0 no          0    0      0     0     0 0x00 0x00
             Memory Ops:
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           eeprom         0     0     0    0 no       2048   32      0     0     0 0x00 0x00
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           application    0     0     0    0 no     196608  512      0     0     0 0x00 0x00
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           usersig        0     0     0    0 no        512  512      0     0     0 0x00 0x00
             Memory Ops:
               Oeration     Inst Bit  Bit Type  Bitno  Value
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           ----------- ---- ----- ----- ---- ------ ------ ---- ------ ----- ----- ---------
           fuse0          0     0     0    0 no          1    0      0     0     0 0x00 0x00
             Memory Ops:
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               -----------  --------  --------  -----  -----

         Programmer Type : butterfly
         Description     : Atmel AppNote AVR109 Boot Loader

Connecting to programmer: .avrdude: Send: . [1b] 
avrdude: Send: S [53] 
avrdude: ser_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: butterfly_recv(): programmer is not responding

[csarron]

Same problem here

[aschulm]

Sorry for the extreme delay in replying to this bug. I must have missed the email notification for it.

I'm doing a sweep to close any old bugs that remain open. Are either of you still having this issue?

It sounds to me like you might have gotten your BattOr stuck on a version of the firmware that did not have the ability to reset via a serial command. This reset is needed to enter the Bootloader (indicated by the quick flashing yellow light).

You can try to flash the BattOr to the latest version of the firmware by commenting out battor -k, the resetting the BattOr manually (open the BattOr's plastic enclosure and hit the reset button), and quickly after you hit the button running make flash.