Installation issue.

[jrinky]

Hi All,

I'm a older retired guy who's been messing with model trains and Open Source for a while but isn't an expert in either.
I've been looking at upgrading to DCC for sometime but need something that's fairly straight forward from a user perspective.
Have just stumbled on DCC-EX which looks great and well documented.

Having downloaded the latest package, the install is exiting with the error below. There is a "serial-discovery.exe" file but no "serial-discovery".

Can I have some assistance with this please.

Cheers,
David
(Fedora release 36)

./exInstaller
Unhandled exception. Grpc.Core.RpcException: Status(StatusCode="Unknown", Detail="error getting port list from serial-discovery: starting discovery process: fork/exec /home/david/Arduino/DCC-EX/exInstaller-linux-x64/packages/builtin/tools/serial-discovery/1.2.1/serial-discovery: no such file or directory")
at Grpc.Net.Client.Internal.HttpClientCallInvoker.BlockingUnaryCall[TRequest,TResponse](Method2 method, String host, CallOptions options, TRequest request) at Grpc.Core.Interceptors.InterceptingCallInvoker.b__3_0[TRequest,TResponse](TRequest req, ClientInterceptorContext2 ctx)
at Grpc.Core.ClientBase.ClientBaseConfiguration.ClientBaseConfigurationInterceptor.BlockingUnaryCall[TRequest,TResponse](TRequest request, ClientInterceptorContext2 context, BlockingUnaryCallContinuation2 continuation)
at Grpc.Core.Interceptors.InterceptingCallInvoker.BlockingUnaryCall[TRequest,TResponse](Method2 method, String host, CallOptions options, TRequest request) at Cc.Arduino.Cli.Commands.V1.ArduinoCoreService.ArduinoCoreServiceClient.BoardList(BoardListRequest request, CallOptions options) in C:\Users\dex35\source\repos\exInstaller\exInstaller\obj\Release\netcoreapp5.0\linux-x64\CommandsGrpc.cs:line 1328 at Cc.Arduino.Cli.Commands.V1.ArduinoCoreService.ArduinoCoreServiceClient.BoardList(BoardListRequest request, Metadata headers, Nullable1 deadline, CancellationToken cancellationToken) in C:\Users\dex35\source\repos\exInstaller\exInstaller\obj\Release\netcoreapp5.0\linux-x64\CommandsGrpc.cs:line 1318
at exInstaller.Utils.ArudinoCliHelper.DetectBoard() in C:\Users\dex35\source\repos\exInstaller\exInstaller\Utils\ArudinoCliHelper.cs:line 326
at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.<>c.b__140_1(Object state)
at System.Threading.QueueUserWorkItemCallbackDefaultContext.Execute()
at System.Threading.ThreadPoolWorkQueue.Dispatch()
Aborted (core dumped)

file /home/david/Arduino/DCC-EX/exInstaller-linux-x64/packages/builtin/tools/serial-discovery/1.2.1/serial-discovery.exe
/home/david/Arduino/DCC-EX/exInstaller-linux-x64/packages/builtin/tools/serial-discovery/1.2.1/serial-discovery.exe: PE32+ executable (console) x86-64 (stripped to external PDB), for MS Windows

[habazut]

If you are on Fedora, the smoothest way to install is probably the latest Arduino IDE 1.8 which should be 1.8.19. The 2.0 IDE has still birth problems. Another way to quickly get going is the installer.sh script which runs git and arduino-cli to download and install.

Regards,
Harald.

[jrinky]

Thanks for the response Harald.
I was just loading IDE 2.0 when I saw your response so that's saved some possible drama.
It turns out that I had a bricked board as well but it's all finally sorted and running smoothly now with a new board.

Cheers,
David

[jrinky]

I downloaded serial-discovery and ctags from GitHub and everything is working correctly now.

serial-discovery
https://github.com/arduino/serial-discovery/releases/tag/v1.2.1
ctags
https://github.com/arduino/ctags/releases/tag/5.8-arduino11

Cheers,
David

[FrightRisk]

Great to hear David. And if you would like, we have a lively discussion on GitHub. That is definitely the best way to contact us and someone is almost always "live" there. https://discord.gg/y2sB4Fp

[jrinky]

Hi, I tried the link but I get "Invalid Invite". I guessing I was late getting on to it? If you are okay to re-issue an invite I'll get onto it promptly.

Cheers,
David

[habazut]

https://discord.gg/8b6QUwUx I think this is an invitation link that is valid for 7 days (at least discord did say that in the link description)

[jrinky]

I tried again and the full error message is "Invite Invalid: This invite may be expired or you might not have permissions to join."

[FrightRisk]

This is a bit odd. Have you tried before to join Discord? The link I provided is a "permalink", it never expires. It is the same one I believe I put on the website and people join every day. I will double-check with one of the new users to see if they used this link to verify that. So far I haven't seen an issue like a virus checker or something else that would block joining. You can join from the PC app, the phone app, or the Web app. Maybe try the web or pc app and see if that is different. Here is a screen from the web app. This link took me to that spot and gives me a chance to login or sign up https://discord.gg/y2sB4Fp :

Be sure to cut and paste the link because it is case sensitive. The last character is "p". It is concerning since Haba sent you a different temporary link and that did not work either. The only other thing I am aware of is someone being subscribed to over 100 servers. I doubt that is it. There might be an IP ban, in which case trying from a phone or home network, which should give a different IP if you use the phone network instead of wifi, that might do it. I see other posts of people having this message and so far no concrete answer.

[jrinky]

Thanks for the information.
I'd tried the link in Librewolf and Brave browsers to no effect. A copy and paste of the link into Chrome and I've managed to create an account and sign in.

:)