I have the same issue on my mac, and I'm running MacOS 10.14 (Mojave). I'm using an Xplained Mini UPDI programmer (ATmega32U4 based).

If I use the Avrdude version that's bundled with Arduino IDE (https://github.com/facchinm/avrdude) it works fine, but if I build my own Avrdude version from this repo I get the same error as Victor get.

I stumbled across this issue when helping out Dawid with issue #61624. It would be nice if this was fixed in the next release (6.4). Let me know if you need someone to help out with testing!

In order to simplify life for everybody, I have set up a brew formula. So, assuming you have already installed homebrew, you only have to type:

   brew uninstall avrdude

which will remove your current avrdude homebrew binary. And then type:

   brew install --HEAD felias-fogg/arduino/avrdude

This will install the official version from the avrdude trunk (after downloading the hidapi package). In other words, you now should have a avrdude version located in /usr/local/bin that can connect to the Atmel-ICE. You may want to symlink the Arduino version of avrdude to this binary.

Cheers,
Bernhard

Hi,

I tried Brian's recipe, and it works!

I was also curious whether it would work with the current codebase of avrdude. So, I checked out the SVN rep and compiled the code in trunk/avrdude. As mentioned by Joerg, the line to be added in the configure.ac file is already there. While this version can access the ICE, it is not able to access the MCU. I did a diff between the two versions, but it is more than just a few lines, so I gave up.

Here is the output:

mac: avrdude> ./avrdude -c atmelice_isp -p m328p -t -v

avrdude: Version 6.3-20171130
         Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/
         Copyright (c) 2007-2014 Joerg Wunsch

         System wide configuration file is "/usr/local/etc/avrdude.conf"
        

         Using Port                    : usb
         Using Programmer              : atmelice_isp
avrdude: Found CMSIS-DAP compliant device, using EDBG protocol
         AVR Part                      : ATmega328P
         Chip Erase delay              : 9000 us
         PAGEL                         : PD7
         BS2                           : PC2
         RESET disposition             : dedicated
         RETRY pulse                   : SCK
         serial program mode           : yes
         parallel program mode         : yes
         Timeout                       : 200
         StabDelay                     : 100
         CmdexeDelay                   : 25
         SyncLoops                     : 32
         ByteDelay                     : 0
         PollIndex                     : 3
         PollValue                     : 0x53
         Memory Detail                 :

                                  Block Poll               Page                       Polled
           Memory Type Mode Delay Size  Indx Paged  Size   Size #Pages MinW  MaxW   ReadBack
           ----------- ---- ----- ----- ---- ------ ------ ---- ------ ----- ----- ---------
           eeprom        65    20     4    0 no       1024    4      0  3600  3600 0xff 0xff
           flash         65     6   128    0 yes     32768  128    256  4500  4500 0xff 0xff
           lfuse          0     0     0    0 no          1    1      0  4500  4500 0x00 0x00
           hfuse          0     0     0    0 no          1    1      0  4500  4500 0x00 0x00
           efuse          0     0     0    0 no          1    1      0  4500  4500 0x00 0x00
           lock           0     0     0    0 no          1    1      0  4500  4500 0x00 0x00
           calibration    0     0     0    0 no          1    1      0     0     0 0x00 0x00
           signature      0     0     0    0 no          3    1      0     0     0 0x00 0x00

         Programmer Type : JTAG3_ISP
         Description     : Atmel-ICE (ARM/AVR) in ISP mode
         Vtarget         : 5.3 V
         SCK period      : 8.00 us

avrdude: Short read, read only 0 out of 512 bytes
avrdude: jtag3_edbg_recv(): Unexpected response 0x00
avrdude: stk500v2_jtag3_recv(): error in jtagmkII_recv()
avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions

Reading |                                                    | 0% 0.00savrdude: jtag3_edbg_send(): Unexpected response 0x81, 0x11
avrdude: jtag3_edbg_recv(): Unexpected response 0x80
avrdude: stk500v2_jtag3_recv(): error in jtagmkII_recv()
avrdude: Short read, read only 0 out of 512 bytes
avrdude: jtag3_edbg_send(): Unexpected response 0x40, 0xf2
avrdude: Short read, read only 0 out of 512 bytes
avrdude: jtag3_edbg_recv(): Unexpected response 0x00
avrdude: stk500v2_jtag3_recv(): error in jtagmkII_recv()
Reading | #################                                  | 33% 0.85savrdude: Short read, read only 0 out of 512 bytes
avrdude: jtag3_edbg_send(): Unexpected response 0x00, 0x00
avrdude: Short read, read only 0 out of 512 bytes
avrdude: jtag3_edbg_recv(): Unexpected response 0x00
avrdude: stk500v2_jtag3_recv(): error in jtagmkII_recv()
Reading | ################################################## | 100% 1.45s

avrdude: Device signature = 0x303030
avrdude: Expected signature for ATmega328P is 1E 95 0F
         Double check chip, or use -F to override this check.
avrdude: Short read, read only 0 out of 512 bytes
avrdude: jtag3_edbg_send(): Unexpected response 0x0a, 0x0a
avrdude: Short read, read only 0 out of 512 bytes
avrdude: jtag3_edbg_recv(): Unexpected response 0x00
avrdude: stk500v2_jtag3_recv(): error in jtagmkII_recv()
avrdude: Short read, read only 0 out of 512 bytes
avrdude: jtag3_edbg_send(): Unexpected response 0xf9, 0x2e
avrdude: Short read, read only 0 out of 512 bytes
avrdude: jtag3_edbg_recv(): Unexpected response 0x00
avrdude: Short read, read only 0 out of 512 bytes
avrdude: jtag3_edbg_send(): Unexpected response 0x32, 0x00
avrdude: Short read, read only 0 out of 512 bytes
avrdude: jtag3_edbg_recv(): Unexpected response 0x00
avrdude: Short read, read only 0 out of 512 bytes
avrdude: jtag3_edbg_signoff(): failed to read from serial port (0)

avrdude done.  Thank you.

mac: avrdude>

Brian,

This sounds like an amazing investigation you've done. I will give it a try as soon as possible and update here.

Thank you.

Best regards,
Victor.

Hi everyone!

Recently migrated to macOS Big Sur and can no longer use avrdude.

I am using ATMEL-ICE programmer and made the correct connections to an ATMega1284P (although it's pretty irrelevant in this scenario).

Running the following command:

    sudo avrdude -c atmelice_isp -p m1284p -t -v

Gives:

    avrdude: Version 6.3, compiled on Mar 13 2021 at 14:40:05
             Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/
             Copyright (c) 2007-2014 Joerg Wunsch

             System wide configuration file is "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/avrdude/6.3_1/etc/avrdude.conf"
             User configuration file is "/Users/victorbarbu/.avrduderc"
             User configuration file does not exist or is not a regular file, skipping

             Using Port                    : usb
             Using Programmer              : atmelice_isp
    avrdude: usbdev_open(): Found Atmel-ICE CMSIS-DAP, serno: Jxxxxxxxxxxx
    avrdude: usbdev_open(): error claiming interface 0: Permission denied
    avrdude: usbdev_open(): no usable interface found
    avrdude: jtag3_open_common(): Did not find any device matching VID 0x03eb and PID list: 0x2141

Spawning a virtual machine with Fedora ARM and connecting the programmer straight to that virtual machine makes avrdude work perfectly (by running the same command).

Is there any workaround to the issue (apart from using the virtual machine)?

Thanks!