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avrdude crashes when eeprom is read

Bug #1400185 reported by psl
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Bug Description

Ubuntu 14.04.1 i386
avrdudude 6.0.1-1

I try to read EEPROM from Arduino board (ATmega328p) with USBtiny ISP programmer.

FIRST
It crashed regularly. There is a report that free() detected memory allocation problem. EEPROM is empty, all 0xff; this can be important to replicate this crash.

# avrdude -c usbtiny -p m328p -U eeprom:r:xx.bin:r

avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions

Reading | ################################################## | 100% 0.01s

avrdude: Device signature = 0x1e950f
avrdude: reading eeprom memory:

Reading | ################################################## | 100% 17.15s

avrdude: writing output file "xx.bin"

avrdude: safemode: Fuses OK (H:05, E:DA, L:FF)

avrdude done. Thank you.

*** Error in `avrdude': free(): invalid next size (normal): 0x093d5360 ***
Aborted (core dumped)

SECOND
When I write data to EEROM, it can be all 0xff, I read back different data and verification fails. It is good that it is detected but 100% of EEPROM is read to find that the first byte doesn't match. This can be improved, USBtiny is slow...

THIRD
Write data to EEPROM doesn't work, see previous point.
# avrdude -c usbtiny -p m328p -U eeprom:w:xx.bin:r

I tried USBasp programmer to the the same with Arduino and it works good so my troubles are related to USBtiny programmer. I cannot say if problem is in avrdude or in firmware of USBtiny programmer.

Revision history for this message
Greg Beam (ki7mt) wrote :

While this is Electronics, but does it belong to the ubuntu-hams-devel group? It looks like a direct import, as the maintainer is from Debian.

Revision history for this message
psl (slansky) wrote :

The original post was with USBtiny with firmware 1.04. I upgraded USBtiny to 1.07 and I still can observe this problem.

To find USBtiny firmware version:

$ sudo lsusb -v | grep -A2 0x1781
  idVendor 0x1781 Multiple Vendors
  idProduct 0x0c9f USBtiny
  bcdDevice 1.07

And I want to add another bug with avrdude (or USBasp). I see it when I work with AT90S2313, it is legacy chip that was replaced with ATtiny2313. I can read flash only once, when I try to read it for second time, I get an error. I have to replug my USBasp programmer and I can read flash again. It is 100% repeatable pattern.

Read flash of AT90S2313, first time, we can read it:

$ sudo avrdude -c usbasp -p at90s2313 -U flash:r:xx.bin:r -F -B5

avrdude: set SCK frequency to 187500 Hz
avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions

Reading | ################################################## | 100% 0.01s

avrdude: Device signature = 0x1e9101
avrdude: reading flash memory:

Reading | ################################################## | 100% 8.19s

avrdude: writing output file "xx.bin"

avrdude done. Thank you.

Try again, and we have an error, target doesn't answer:

$ sudo avrdude -c usbasp -p at90s2313 -U flash:r:xx.bin:r -F -B5

avrdude: set SCK frequency to 187500 Hz
avrdude: error: programm enable: target doesn't answer. 1
avrdude: initialization failed, rc=-1
avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions
avrdude: Device signature = 0x588460
avrdude: Expected signature for AT90S2313 is 1E 91 01

avrdude done. Thank you.

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