Frequently Faced Issues

Issue 1:

sudo $(which openocd) -f spike.cfg

shakti-tools/bin/openocd: error while loading shared libraries: libftdi1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Solution: If the above error comes execute the following commands:

sudo apt-get -y install libftdi1

sudo apt-get -y install libftdi1-2

Note: libFTDI is an open source library to communicate to FTDI's chips, including the popular bitbang mode.

Issue 2:

$(which spike) --rbb-port=9824 -m0x10010000:0x20000 bootload.elf $(which pk)

Listening for remote bitbang connection on port 9824.
couldn't open ELF program: bootload.elf!

Solution: Please run "make" inside the spiking folder which generates the .elf files

Issue 3:

sudo miniterm.py /dev/ttyUSB1 19200

sudo: miniterm.py: command not found

Solution:

1. You need to download the pyserial package, If this download fails click here.

2. Follow the below commands:

*Move into the folder into which pyserial is downloaded, then extract using tar command.

tar -zxvf pyserial-2.6.tar.gz

cd pyserial-2.6

python setup.py build

sudo python setup.py install

Issue 4:

sudo miniterm.py /dev/ttyUSB1 19200

could not open port '/dev/ttyUSB1': [Errno 2] could not open port /dev/ttyUSB1:
[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/dev/ttyUSB1'

Solution: USB1 is not a valid port in this case, Press tab once to automatically get the port to which the board is connected or Press tab twice to see the available options

Issue 5:

Library not found error while compiling or executing program

/shakti-tools-5681b983df67a86dc9e032e28827167d9bb0c1b5/bin/../libexec/gcc/riscv
64-unknown-elf/7.2.0/cc1: error while loading shared libraries: libmpfr.so.4:
 cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Solution: Create a soft link for libmpfr

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmpfr.so.6 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmpfr.so.4