Arduino how can i use lock files with rxtx

Red Hat Customer. User Changes. Page Help! This site requires JavaScript to be enabled to function correctly, please enable it. Bug - Arduino can't create lock files for accessing the serial port Summary: Arduino can't create lock files for accessing the serial port. Description Jacques UTC. Comment 1 Jacques UTC. Comment 5 Jacques UTC. Comment 7 mb UTC. Comment 8 Nicola UTC. Just checked here with my UNO. Opened the ide and connected my UNO. Could select "UNO", but not serial port.

Check user group. Logout login and everything is fine now. Using 1. Could you try with the ide 1. Did you go through those instructions? Mr Bits you confessed: "I did pull the plug on the computer when it locked up a short time ago, so i must have done something nasty to the system! Do you know about raising elephants? I still have my ZX Spectrum in the loft, not played with it for ages. Pages: [ 1 ] 2 Go Up. SMF 2. The whole idea is that programs can check if the serial port in question is in use by another program.

For that there has to be a standard location and b consistent naming to identify the device for that lockfile. Rxtx is in community, so I would think the lockfile stuff is patched there, but arduino packages its own version of rxtx. EDIT: Have a look at the standard arduino package - it symlinks rxtx from community. Sorry for the slight rant, serial libraries on java have annoyed the hell out of me. If you ever have the pleasure, give one of the other implementations a try.

Although they are all flakey, some are at least more recent than Ah yes, while getting this to work, I believe I did install the java-rxtx package. I just checked. It has helped me too, thanks! Using arduino package from aur, added myself to uucp, installed rxtx again, reboot and I have managed to upload my sketch.

After many trial and error. Thanks for the solution, it really helped. Atom topic feed. Arch Linux.