Linux avrdude64 will crash with usbtinyisp [imported]

[cmaglie]

This is Issue 610 moved from a Google Code project.
Added by 2011-08-29T11:21:28.000Z by [email protected].
Please review that bug for more context and additional comments, but update this bug.
Closed (Fixed).

Original labels: Type-Defect, Priority-Medium

Original description

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Connect usbtiny isp.
2. Use upload using programmer function
3. IDE will not upload with the following message:

Reproduced this using the avrdude and avrdude64 binaries from the source package.

What is the expected output?
$ avrdude usbtiny -c usbtiny -p m328p -C ./avrdude.conf

avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions

Reading | | 0% 0.Reading | ################# | 33% 0Reading | ################################# | 66% 0Reading | ################################################## | 100% 0.01s

avrdude: Device signature = 0x1e950f

avrdude: safemode: Fuses OK

avrdude done. Thank you.

What do you see instead?
$ ./avrdude64 usbtiny -c usbtiny -p m328p -C ./avrdude.conf

USB read error: expected 8, got 4
USB read error: expected 8, got 4
avrdude64: initialization failed, rc=-1
Double check connections and try again, or use -F to override
this check.

avrdude64 done. Thank you.

What version of the Arduino software are you using? On what operating
system? Which Arduino board are you using?
1.0-beta2-64
Slackware64-current with multilib support. (Linux 2.6.38.7 #3 SMP)

Please provide any additional information below.
32 bit version of arduino avrdude works.
64 bit version of aruidno avrdude gives the above error.
64 bit version of avrdude 5.10 compiled on this system works fine.

Possible fix documented here:
http://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=3683&start=22