Ubuntu not accepting my arduino

Question

I am relatively new to ubuntu, and have been enjoying it. I currently have this issue. I get the error message shown below. It detects my Arduino Mega 2560, but it instead decides to give these error codes:

avrdude: stk500_send(): failed to send command to serial port
avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout
avrdude: stk500v2_getsync(): timeout communicating with programmer

Anyone have a solution?

Answer 1

Anyone who is having this issue, here is a temporary fix.

Thanks to @AndroidDev, here is an easy fix that works well enough.

1. Find out which port your Arduino is using (look in the bottom right corner or in the menu)

2. Go to terminal and do sudo chmod a+rw /dev/ttyfoo (fill in the last part with your part)

3. Open Arduino and carry on!

The issue with this solution is that you must redo steps 2&3 every time you use Arduino, so try to write a script or something which does it automatically and post it here so others can use it.