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Cannot open /dev/ttyUSB0: Permission denied

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
15/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
linux, ubuntu

Research direction

The report names /dev/ttyUSB0, Ubuntu 16 LTS, the gtkterm Launchpad bug 949597, and a chmod command, but no repository file or test. Start by checking whether this repository contains flashing or serial-port handling; done would require a reproducible, repository-scoped fix and a test or documented resolution.

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Description

I had an issue , while trying to do flash
Cannot open /dev/ttyUSB0: Permission denied

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtkterm/+bug/949597

I palliated to this problem with the command " sudo chmod -R 777 /dev/ttyUSB0 " each time I wanted to flash.

Do you know more about these bugs ? This maybe due to an ubuntu bug (Ubuntu 16 LTS) but I don't know

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