Hi Geert, thanks for your prompt reply, the user is already a member of the dialout group.
$ groups kie kie : kie dialout cdrom floppy sudo audio dip video plugdev netdev The same problem occurs if I try running the program as root. best rgds Kie On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 07:54:07AM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System (ow...@bugs.debian.org) wrote... > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > which was filed against the arduino package: > > #894770: arduino: serial communication/uploader not working > > It has been closed by Geert Stappers <stapp...@stappers.nl>. > > Their explanation is attached below along with your original report. > If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a > better one in a separate message then please contact Geert Stappers > <stapp...@stappers.nl> by > replying to this email. > > > -- > 894769: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=894769 > Debian Bug Tracking System > Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems > Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 09:50:34 +0200 > From: Geert Stappers <stapp...@stappers.nl> > To: 894769-d...@bugs.debian.org, 894...@bugs.debian.org > Cc: 894770-submit...@bugs.debian.org > Subject: duplicate and permission on serial port > Message-ID: <20180404075034.gk26...@gpm.stappers.nl> > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=894769 and > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=894770 are duplicates > > Closing the oldest one in case of minor difference I didn't spot. > > > My first guess on "the serial connection selection is greyed out" > is permission on the serial port. Advise: check it. > Possible solution: please the user running arduino in the group > that may read and write the serial port such as dailout. > Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 05:17:35 +0100 > From: kie <b...@hotsite.to> > To: Debian Bug Tracking System <sub...@bugs.debian.org> > Subject: arduino: serial communication/uploader not working > Message-ID: <20180404041735.gb8...@onza.mythic-beasts.com> > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) > > Package: arduino > Version: 2:1.0.5+dfsg2-4.1 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable > > Dear Maintainer, > > normal use of arduino program > however at the moment the serial connection selection is greyed out > > connect to arduino via serial port not working, cannot upload code to arduino > > get the following error > java.lang.NullPointerException thrown while loading gnu.io.RXTXCommDriver > > this is the same on two different machines running buster > where serial upload was previously working without a problem > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: buster/sid > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (500, 'testing') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), > LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > LSM: AppArmor: enabled > > Versions of packages arduino depends on: > ii arduino-core 2:1.0.5+dfsg2-4.1 > ii default-jre [java6-runtime] 2:1.9-62 > ii libjna-java 4.5.1-1 > ii librxtx-java 2.2pre2+dfsg1-1 > ii openjdk-8-jre [java6-runtime] 8u162-b12-1 > ii openjdk-9-jre [java6-runtime] 9.0.4+12-3 > > Versions of packages arduino recommends: > ii extra-xdg-menus 1.0-4 > ii policykit-1 0.105-20 > > arduino suggests no packages. > > -- no debconf information > > > ----- End forwarded message -----
