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Steps to reproduce:
Burn a ATMEGA328P-PU with an ArduinoISP - No errors
Download blink sketch - No errors and it blinks
Download blink sketch a second time - Fails with following error:
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding

Burning and downloads from Arduino Development Environment on a Mac. Arduino is breadboard variety like http://itp.nyu.edu/physcomp/Tutorials/ArduinoBreadboard

If the atmega is burned again, a sketch can be downloaded once.

Any ideas for diagnosing this? Is there anything funky about ArduinoISP burning?

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Did you set the lock bits after uploading the bootloader?

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Which bootloader code are you using. This sounds like on of the Uno bootloader bugs that surfaced a while back. There is a newer version around that solves it, search around. I don't own a Uno so I haven't kept a link.

Lefty

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Lefty, are you thinking of the "amnesia" bug? This sounds different.

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Is the BOOTRST fuse set?

Don

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Looks like that breadboard does not implement auto-reset.

Connect the Reset pin (Pin 1 of the ATmega) to ground until you see the "Binary sketch size" message in the IDE.

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It was the auto reset issue!

I'm not sure why the first sketch uploads without holding the reset button, but burn and repeated upload worked with 2 atmega328p chips.

Also had to move freshly burned chip to another breadboard (instead of uploading on same board as Arduino ISP), but this is a good idea anyway.

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I think it's because with a fresh bootloader there is no sketch to run so the bootloader just waits for your upload.

Once a sketch has been uploaded the bootloader only gets control for a short time after reset before turning control over to the sketch. If the upload doesn't start during that window the bootloader won't process it.