Stlink: STM32F103CBT6: st-flash run_flash_loader(0x08000000) failed

Created on 9 Dec 2015 · 18Comments · Source: stlink-org/stlink

Hello. I try to load firmare in STM32F103CBT6 using compiled st-flash.exe utility under windows 8.1.

There is used command:
st-flash.exe write ${project_name}.bin 0x08000000

Here is result:

Flash page at addr: 0x08000000 erased
Flash page at addr: 0x08000400 erased
Flash page at addr: 0x08000800 erased
Flash page at addr: 0x08000c00 erased
Flash page at addr: 0x08001000 erased
Flash page at addr: 0x08001400 erased
Flash page at addr: 0x08001800 erased
Flash page at addr: 0x08001c00 erased
Flash page at addr: 0x08002000 erased
Flash page at addr: 0x08002400 erased
Flash page at addr: 0x08002800 erased
Flash page at addr: 0x08002c00 erased
Flash page at addr: 0x08003000 erased
Flash page at addr: 0x08003400 erased
Flash page at addr: 0x08003800 erased
Flash page at addr: 0x08003c00 erased
Flash page at addr: 0x08004000 erased
Flash page at addr: 0x08004400 erased
Flash page at addr: 0x08004800 erased
Flash page at addr: 0x08004c00 erased
Flash page at addr: 0x08005000 erased
Flash page at addr: 0x08005400 erased
Flash page at addr: 0x08005800 erased
Flash page at addr: 0x08005c00 erased
Flash page at addr: 0x08006000 erased
Flash page at addr: 0x08006400 erased
Flash page at addr: 0x08006800 erased
Flash page at addr: 0x08006c00 erased
Flash page at addr: 0x08007000 erased
Flash page at addr: 0x08007400 erased
Flash page at addr: 0x08007800 erased
Flash page at addr: 0x08007c00 erased
Flash page at addr: 0x08008000 erased
Flash page at addr: 0x08008400 erased
Flash page at addr: 0x08008800 erased
Flash page at addr: 0x08008c00 erased
Flash page at addr: 0x08009000 erased
Flash page at addr: 0x08009400 erased
Flash page at addr: 0x08009800 erased
Flash page at addr: 0x08009c00 erased
Flash page at addr: 0x0800a000 erased
Flash page at addr: 0x0800a400 erased
stlink_fwrite_flash() == -1
2015-12-09T22:01:57 INFO src/stlink-common.c: Loading device parameters....
2015-12-09T22:01:57 INFO src/stlink-common.c: Device connected is: F1 Medium-density device, id 0x20036410
2015-12-09T22:01:57 INFO src/stlink-common.c: SRAM size: 0x5000 bytes (20 KiB), Flash: 0xb4a000 bytes (11560 KiB) in pages of 1024 bytes
2015-12-09T22:01:57 INFO src/stlink-common.c: Attempting to write 42368 (0xa580) bytes to stm32 address: 134217728 (0x8000000)
2015-12-09T22:01:57 INFO src/stlink-common.c: Finished erasing 42 pages of 1024 (0x400) bytes
2015-12-09T22:01:57 INFO src/stlink-common.c: Starting Flash write for VL/F0/F3 core id
2015-12-09T22:01:57 INFO src/stlink-common.c: Successfully loaded flash loader in sram
2015-12-09T22:02:18 ERROR src/stlink-common.c: flash loader run error
2015-12-09T22:02:18 ERROR src/stlink-common.c: run_flash_loader(0x8000000) failed! == -1

What is the issue? Thank you)

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Almaz1c

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@Almaz1c could you test with v1.2.0 or master, and see if the problem still exists?

xor-gate on 17 May 2016

I can confirm this bug, but I get it only occasionally - sometimes it passes, sometimes it fails.

using the same command and params
Running on raspberry Pi 2, using Linux raspberrypi 4.1.7+, armv6l
chip STM32F091RCT6

I am using latest version, compiled yesterday. My output:

pi@raspberrypi ~/Desktop/Tester $ sudo st-flash write fw_v13.bin 0x08000000
2016-05-26T10:23:34 INFO src/common.c: Loading device parameters....
2016-05-26T10:23:34 INFO src/common.c: Device connected is: F09X device, id 0x10006442
2016-05-26T10:23:34 INFO src/common.c: SRAM size: 0x8000 bytes (32 KiB), Flash: 0x40000 bytes (256 KiB) in pages of 2048 bytes
2016-05-26T10:23:34 INFO src/common.c: Attempting to write 196964 (0x30164) bytes to stm32 address: 134217728 (0x8000000)
Flash page at addr: 0x08030000 erased
2016-05-26T10:23:37 INFO src/common.c: Finished erasing 97 pages of 2048 (0x800) bytes
2016-05-26T10:23:37 INFO src/common.c: Starting Flash write for VL/F0/F3 core id
2016-05-26T10:23:37 INFO src/flash_loader.c: Successfully loaded flash loader in sram
2016-05-26T10:23:47 ERROR src/flash_loader.c: flash loader run error
2016-05-26T10:23:47 ERROR src/common.c: stlink_flash_loader_run(0x8000000) failed! == -1
stlink_fwrite_flash() == -1

vladiks on 26 May 2016

@vladiks which version/git tag do you use of the st-flash tool?

xor-gate on 26 May 2016

Current version is unable to compile with visual studio, probably it should work under MinGW but I have not tested this.

xor-gate on 26 May 2016

@xor-gate I'm sorry, but I don't know how to find out the git tag. I've downloaded master as zip and copied it to raspberry. I am retty sure it's 1.2.0, there are also news for 1.2.0 in changelog.

I've avoided the issue by erasing memory by separate command before flashing it again - the problem now disappeared.

vladiks on 26 May 2016

@vladiks when you downloaded zipfile for master you running latest version (beyond 1.2.0). I have seen an exact issue where people erase the flash (mass erase/full?) and then it worked. This is a problem which I saw some other people have but have not confirmed and seen this myself. In the upcoming time I will prepare a continues hardware/stlink testing setup at Dual Inventive and hopefully I will catch this nasty bug.

This needs some documentation somewhere if people tried to (mass)erased and then flashed and the problem resolved. I will keep this issue open until I have documented/noted it somewhere.

xor-gate on 26 May 2016

Good luck and many thanks for your work on this utility.

vladiks on 26 May 2016

I have put it in the README.md. So people will see it :+1:. Thanks all for the feedback, feel free to open a issue when something is not working as expected!

xor-gate on 26 May 2016

Hello I have the same problem with STML0xx. This error occurs only with st-link utility in linux and mac os X. Utility from STM works fine.

zokl on 9 Sep 2016

Yep, finally I can test it. For me it's

2020-03-29T13:55:22 INFO flash_loader.c: Successfully loaded flash loader in sram
2020-03-29T13:55:22 ERROR flash_loader.c: write error, count == 1023
2020-03-29T13:55:22 ERROR common.c: stlink_flash_loader_run(0x8000800) failed! == -1

always on macOS, so it's pretty stable. Tired of mass erasing before, want to help %)

yeswolf on 29 Mar 2020

👍1

@yeswolf: Which version of stlink do you use?

Nightwalker-87 on 4 Apr 2020

@Nightwalker-87 I use v1.6.0-dirty built from sources (downloaded from releases) with STM32F103RCT6 High-density.

yeswolf on 4 Apr 2020

👍1

I wonder if this could be related to a missing flash loader for F1 devices ...
We currently only have one for F0, F4, F7, L0, L1 and L4.

Nightwalker-87 on 4 Apr 2020

@yeswolf: Any changes with v1.6.1?

Nightwalker-87 on 25 Jun 2020

@Nightwalker-87 Will test after 23th of August.

yeswolf on 5 Aug 2020

👍1

Will test after 23th of August.

OK, enjoy your vacation.
Please do the testing, it will help to reduce the amount of open issues of this cool project.

Besides @yeswolf also high-lighting @Almaz1c and @vladiks .
See #1000 for other requests how to support this project.

stappersg on 9 Aug 2020

👍1

So, I've tried 1.6.1 using 2 approaches: a) installed from HomeBrew b) built from source. The result is strange: a) there is no issue with erasing the firmware as it was before b) but I can't launch debugging my firmware, I always have SIGTRAP in startup_stm32f103xe.s:

LoopFillZerobss:
  ldr r3, = _ebss
  cmp r2, r3
  bcc FillZerobss

/* Call the clock system intitialization function.*/
    bl  SystemInit
/* Call static constructors */
    bl __libc_init_array
/* Call the application's entry point.*/
  bl main
  bx lr // SIGTRAP here
.size Reset_Handler, .-Reset_Handler

If I use st-link 1.6.0 dirty (compiled from HEAD being 84f63d25bd77d61f8feccf08dd24d0d11895ef32), there is no automatic mass-erasing (as I wrote in my previous comments), but debugging starts successfully without any problem. Same code, same project, same toolchain, same device - everything is the same except the path to st-util.

I'll be happy to provide any logs to troubleshoot this issue.

yeswolf on 5 Sep 2020

Hi,

I got the same issue on L496Disco board on Mac OS Catalina.
I used mass erase prior flashing.
Interesting is AC6 System workbench works, but I want to migrate to VSCode.

st-link v.1.6.1. from Homebrew.

Debugging from VSCode using openOCD starts the project, but breaks into startup asm startup_stm32l496xx.s.
It doesn't run the code, looks like the code is not flashed.

➜  anemoss.vscode git:(master) ✗ st-flash erase; st-flash write build/anemoss.2.bin 0x8000000 
st-flash 1.6.1
2021-01-23T20:42:02 INFO common.c: L496x/L4A6x: 256 KiB SRAM, 1024 KiB flash in at least 2 KiB pages.
Mass erasing
st-flash 1.6.1
2021-01-23T20:42:02 INFO common.c: L496x/L4A6x: 256 KiB SRAM, 1024 KiB flash in at least 2 KiB pages.
file build/anemoss.2.bin md5 checksum: 3bf4f2cd944342fcf5012ecda24c954, stlink checksum: 0x00648757
2021-01-23T20:42:02 INFO common.c: Attempting to write 79656 (0x13728) bytes to stm32 address: 134217728 (0x8000000)
EraseFlash - Page:0x0 Size:0x800 2021-01-23T20:42:02 INFO common.c: Flash page at addr: 0x08000000 erased
EraseFlash - Page:0x1 Size:0x800 2021-01-23T20:42:02 INFO common.c: Flash page at addr: 0x08000800 erased
EraseFlash - Page:0x2 Size:0x800 2021-01-23T20:42:02 INFO common.c: Flash page at addr: 0x08001000 erased
EraseFlash - Page:0x3 Size:0x800 2021-01-23T20:42:02 INFO common.c: Flash page at addr: 0x08001800 erased
EraseFlash - Page:0x4 Size:0x800 2021-01-23T20:42:02 INFO common.c: Flash page at addr: 0x08002000 erased
EraseFlash - Page:0x5 Size:0x800 2021-01-23T20:42:02 INFO common.c: Flash page at addr: 0x08002800 erased
EraseFlash - Page:0x6 Size:0x800 2021-01-23T20:42:02 INFO common.c: Flash page at addr: 0x08003000 erased
EraseFlash - Page:0x7 Size:0x800 2021-01-23T20:42:02 INFO common.c: Flash page at addr: 0x08003800 erased
EraseFlash - Page:0x8 Size:0x800 2021-01-23T20:42:02 INFO common.c: Flash page at addr: 0x08004000 erased
EraseFlash - Page:0x9 Size:0x800 2021-01-23T20:42:02 INFO common.c: Flash page at addr: 0x08004800 erased
EraseFlash - Page:0xa Size:0x800 2021-01-23T20:42:02 INFO common.c: Flash page at addr: 0x08005000 erased
EraseFlash - Page:0xb Size:0x800 2021-01-23T20:42:02 INFO common.c: Flash page at addr: 0x08005800 erased
EraseFlash - Page:0xc Size:0x800 2021-01-23T20:42:02 INFO common.c: Flash page at addr: 0x08006000 erased
EraseFlash - Page:0xd Size:0x800 2021-01-23T20:42:02 INFO common.c: Flash page at addr: 0x08006800 erased
EraseFlash - Page:0xe Size:0x800 2021-01-23T20:42:03 INFO common.c: Flash page at addr: 0x08007000 erased
EraseFlash - Page:0xf Size:0x800 2021-01-23T20:42:03 INFO common.c: Flash page at addr: 0x08007800 erased
EraseFlash - Page:0x10 Size:0x800 2021-01-23T20:42:03 INFO common.c: Flash page at addr: 0x08008000 erased
EraseFlash - Page:0x11 Size:0x800 2021-01-23T20:42:03 INFO common.c: Flash page at addr: 0x08008800 erased
EraseFlash - Page:0x12 Size:0x800 2021-01-23T20:42:03 INFO common.c: Flash page at addr: 0x08009000 erased
EraseFlash - Page:0x13 Size:0x800 2021-01-23T20:42:03 INFO common.c: Flash page at addr: 0x08009800 erased
EraseFlash - Page:0x14 Size:0x800 2021-01-23T20:42:03 INFO common.c: Flash page at addr: 0x0800a000 erased
EraseFlash - Page:0x15 Size:0x800 2021-01-23T20:42:03 INFO common.c: Flash page at addr: 0x0800a800 erased
EraseFlash - Page:0x16 Size:0x800 2021-01-23T20:42:03 INFO common.c: Flash page at addr: 0x0800b000 erased
EraseFlash - Page:0x17 Size:0x800 2021-01-23T20:42:03 INFO common.c: Flash page at addr: 0x0800b800 erased
EraseFlash - Page:0x18 Size:0x800 2021-01-23T20:42:03 INFO common.c: Flash page at addr: 0x0800c000 erased
EraseFlash - Page:0x19 Size:0x800 2021-01-23T20:42:03 INFO common.c: Flash page at addr: 0x0800c800 erased
EraseFlash - Page:0x1a Size:0x800 2021-01-23T20:42:03 INFO common.c: Flash page at addr: 0x0800d000 erased
EraseFlash - Page:0x1b Size:0x800 2021-01-23T20:42:03 INFO common.c: Flash page at addr: 0x0800d800 erased
EraseFlash - Page:0x1c Size:0x800 2021-01-23T20:42:03 INFO common.c: Flash page at addr: 0x0800e000 erased
EraseFlash - Page:0x1d Size:0x800 2021-01-23T20:42:03 INFO common.c: Flash page at addr: 0x0800e800 erased
EraseFlash - Page:0x1e Size:0x800 2021-01-23T20:42:03 INFO common.c: Flash page at addr: 0x0800f000 erased
EraseFlash - Page:0x1f Size:0x800 2021-01-23T20:42:03 INFO common.c: Flash page at addr: 0x0800f800 erased
EraseFlash - Page:0x20 Size:0x800 2021-01-23T20:42:03 INFO common.c: Flash page at addr: 0x08010000 erased
EraseFlash - Page:0x21 Size:0x800 2021-01-23T20:42:03 INFO common.c: Flash page at addr: 0x08010800 erased
EraseFlash - Page:0x22 Size:0x800 2021-01-23T20:42:03 INFO common.c: Flash page at addr: 0x08011000 erased
EraseFlash - Page:0x23 Size:0x800 2021-01-23T20:42:03 INFO common.c: Flash page at addr: 0x08011800 erased
EraseFlash - Page:0x24 Size:0x800 2021-01-23T20:42:03 INFO common.c: Flash page at addr: 0x08012000 erased
EraseFlash - Page:0x25 Size:0x800 2021-01-23T20:42:03 INFO common.c: Flash page at addr: 0x08012800 erased
EraseFlash - Page:0x26 Size:0x800 2021-01-23T20:42:03 INFO common.c: Flash page at addr: 0x08013000 erased
2021-01-23T20:42:03 INFO common.c: Finished erasing 39 pages of 2048 (0x800) bytes
2021-01-23T20:42:03 INFO common.c: Starting Flash write for F2/F4/L4
2021-01-23T20:42:03 INFO flash_loader.c: Successfully loaded flash loader in sram
size: 32768
2021-01-23T20:42:04 ERROR flash_loader.c: flash loader run error
2021-01-23T20:42:04 ERROR common.c: stlink_flash_loader_run(0x8000000) failed! == -1
stlink_fwrite_flash() == -1