Exception when opening nRF Programmer (Cannot read property 'autoRead' of undefined)

[Karol Grodzicki (Speeron)]

I installed nRF Connect and inside it I installed Programmer. When opening the programmer I get the following exception:

Cannot read property 'autoRead' of undefined
TypeError: Cannot read property 'autoRead' of undefined
    at C:\Users\karol\.nrfconnect-apps\node_modules\pc-nrfconnect-programmer\dist\bundle.js:6:245932
    at file:///C:/Users/karol/AppData/Local/Programs/nrfconnect/resources/app.asar/dist/app-bundle.js:11:10272
    at C:\Users\karol\.nrfconnect-apps\node_modules\pc-nrfconnect-programmer\dist\bundle.js:6:239837
    at os (file:///C:/Users/karol/AppData/Local/Programs/nrfconnect/resources/app.asar/dist/app-bundle.js:41:83208)
    at vu (file:///C:/Users/karol/AppData/Local/Programs/nrfconnect/resources/app.asar/dist/app-bundle.js:41:102287)
    at t.unstable_runWithPriority (file:///C:/Users/karol/AppData/Local/Programs/nrfconnect/resources/app.asar/dist/app-bundle.js:49:3844)
    at zo (file:///C:/Users/karol/AppData/Local/Programs/nrfconnect/resources/app.asar/dist/app-bundle.js:41:45023)
    at mu (file:///C:/Users/karol/AppData/Local/Programs/nrfconnect/resources/app.asar/dist/app-bundle.js:41:102046)
    at Zs (file:///C:/Users/karol/AppData/Local/Programs/nrfconnect/resources/app.asar/dist/app-bundle.js:41:93595)
    at file:///C:/Users/karol/AppData/Local/Programs/nrfconnect/resources/app.asar/dist/app-bundle.js:41:45314

And system report:

# nRFConnect System Report - 2022-02-02T14-28-04.797Z

- System:     Dell Inc. Latitude 5501
- BIOS:       Dell Inc. DELL   - 1072009
- CPU:        1 x Intel® Core™ i7-9850H 2.6 GHz 12 cores (6 physical)
- Memory:     5.2 GB free of 15.8 GB total
- Filesystem: C: (NTFS) 475.2 GB 83.7% used

- OS:         Microsoft Windows 11 Pro (10.0.22000) Windows ia32

- Versions
    - kernel: 10.0.22000
    - git: 2.33.0.windows.1
    - node: 14.16.0
    - python: 3.9.10
    - python3: 3.9.10



- Connected devices:

I already tried following troubleshooting:

• Uninstall Programmer and install again
• Uninstall nRF Connect, remove <user>/.nrfconnect-apps, install Connect 3.10.0 and Programmer 2.3.0 again
• Reboot PC
• Press Restore default settings or Restart application

[ozanoner]

I have the same problem on this system:

$ uname -a
Linux ozan-dell 5.4.0-96-generic #109-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jan 12 16:49:16 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ sudo lshw -short
[sudo] password for ozan: 
H/W path       Device      Class          Description
=====================================================
                           system         Inspiron 5567 (0767)
/0                         bus            05VRRG
/0/0                       memory         64KiB BIOS
/0/3a                      memory         16GiB System Memory
/0/3a/0                    memory         DIMM [empty]
/0/3a/1                    memory         16GiB SODIMM DDR4 Synchronous 2400 MHz (0.4 ns)
/0/3e                      memory         128KiB L1 cache
/0/3f                      memory         512KiB L2 cache
/0/40                      memory         4MiB L3 cache
/0/41                      processor      Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7500U CPU @ 2.70GHz

[Michael S]

I just updated and Programmer v2.3.0 is indeed completely broken (getting the same errors).

Is there a way to revert to a working version?

[MattCaves]

I'm also having this problem on Ubuntu, is there a fix?

[SwRa]

Hi,

We received a few reports with the same issue. The programmer v2.3.1 released just now with the fix. Kindly try updating to the latest version and do let me know. 

Best Regards,

Swathy