Eclipse 2022-03 (4.23.0) for windows - looks like the same problem as described below in 'Stuck in "Starting program"'. Launching (gdb at Linux) just stuck at "Starting program" - in my case at 20%, the same error message and nothing in console at all.
I am running "Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers (includes Incubating components) Version: 2022-03 (4.23.0) Build id: 20220310-1457" locally on a Mac,
and debugging c & C++ executables running in a Linux machine, running "GNU gdb (GDB) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6.1-120.el7".
I installed "Direct Remote C++ Debugging 1.2.0.0" on my Eclipse and finished the setup.
The very begining of the debug worked well, But then after a while, the 'Variable's view showed errors on some variables, then all variables are empty now.
Even worse, now it is stuck in a step, none of 'Step Over', 'Step Into' or 'Resume' could move a step!
I could not even terminate the debugging. Seems Eclipse doesn't recognize any instruction from me.
What could I do? Any help is appreciated!
I am running "Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers (includes Incubating components) Version: 2022-03 (4.23.0) Build id: 20220310-1457" locally on a Mac, and debugging c & C++ executables running in a Linux machine, running "GNU gdb (GDB) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6.1-120.el7". I installed "Direct Remote C++ Debugging 1.2.0.0" on my Eclipse and finished the setup.
The very begining of the debug worked well, But then after a while, the 'Variable's view showed errors on some variables, then all variables are empty now. Even worse, now it is stuck in a step, none of 'Step Over', 'Step Into' or 'Resume' could move a step! What could I do? Any help is appreciated!
launching the debug configuration gets stuck at "starting program" (45%).
It gets stuck like this forever. Then if I try to abort I get the error: "Could not start gdb on the remote host by ssh. See console output for more details"
note: the console has no output at all. Even when I redirect to a local file.
Hello, I am trying to debug a program on a remote Linux server from my Windows laptop using your plugin. I set up a remote debug configuration, but when I try to start debugging, it asks me for SSH credentials, and then gives me this error: Error creating Terminal Do you have any idea what it means and where to get more information? I am not sure if I specified all the parameters for my debug configuration correctly - is there a tutorial on how to use your plugin? Any help would be greatly appreciated -- thank you!
Submitted by ALAN O'KEEFE on Sat, 2018-08-18 23:19
I have installed version 1.2.0.0 in Eclipse Neon.
When I try and create a new Connection after selecting "Direct Remote Debugging Launcher", it pops up a dialogue box to "Select remote system type", but the list is empty? Am I supposed to setup the system types somewhere else in eclipse?
The version 1.2 is avaible now. It includes a fix for "Error with command: gdb --version Cannot run program 'gdb': Launching failed" problem and many others problem as well.
So I now have the remote debugging plugin working perfectly! It seems that if any of the "prerun commands" in the debug configuration contained commands that printed to stdout, like "pushd or popd", then the plugin seemed to fail. By piping stdout to >/dev/null it now works!
I have the same problem as reported by Mohammad Abdo
I'm also running Windows 10 on my local PC with Eclipse Neon (4.6.0) and trying to connect to a linux machine over ssh.
The ssh connection itself is succesful, but launch of the debug configuration gets stuck with no error or debug messages.
Getting the fallowing error message while drag the download on this page into eclipse:
Unable to read repository at http : //mabdelazim.github.io/DirectRemoteDebug/RemotDebugUpdateSite_1_1/content.xml.
org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException
It sounds there is a problem in drag and drop.
Please search for "Direct remote debug" in eclipse market from eclipse, The plugin will appear first result. You can install it from this.
Hi, I have a completely different issue:
I am running windows 10 on my local (laptop) with Eclipse mars (4.5.2), where as my server runs linux with gdb 7.5.1
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu".
I have tried to perform the process and it did not give me any errors but when it starts launching it takes forever at 24% and nothing happens after that.
I have the same problem,
I'm also running Windows 10 on my local PC with Eclipse Neon (4.6.0) and trying to connect to a linux machine over ssh.
The ssh connection itself is succesful, but launch of the debug configuration gets stuck with no error or debug messages.
Hi All
The version 1.1 has been published for Eclipse Neon version.
The problems similar to /dev/ttyp0 are solved now.
Please give me feedback about any new problems.
I got some idea what is happening now. Each time the plugin hit the debug it try to connect to a dev/pts for input/output. But the plugin didn't get the one belong to my account (there are different users using the debug server aswell), therefore, it return a "permission denied" error. I have observed, each time the plugin try increment 1 on the /dev/pts, e.g. /dev/pts/14, /dev/pts/15, /dev/pts/16, etc.
Does a normal ssh program likes putty works fine with same account ? If yes, I guess the problem in the ssh options which the plugin used. One suggestion is build a separate program which does only ssh connect with same as the plug-in and try to figure out where is the problem.
Just what i had been searching for more than a year. The existing remote debugging with gdb-server and gdb was not very easy to use, as we already had to do lot of cross compilations on linux and configurations on windows eclipse.
I used this and tried to attach a debugged to a running process of linux, it listed all my windows processes, i figured that it was because my version of gdb does not support listing the threads and process, so i had to write a hack to change the "listtasks.exe" to actually do a connect to the linux machine and get all the processes. Thought i will check with you and see if we can have an easy way.
Additionally, i have been trying to load a core file using the windows gdb to load a core. This means that i need to have a target gdb on my machine and it was not easy. Can we adapt this project to also work for loading core file. I would actually like to contribute. You could probably guide me how to start contributing and let me know ur email id.
I got the following error when I tried to debug a remote application.
/dev/pts/5: No such file or directory.
My gdb version is 7.2
gdb --version
GNU gdb (GDB) Red Hat Enterprise Linux (7.2-75.el6)
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see: www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/.
HI
Thanks for the information.
It sounds the plugin has problem with version 7.10 now. This version is not tested yet.
Please send me your contact email so we can add a support for it.
As as a temporary workaround you can install gdb version 7.2 on the server and make it the default gdb
I couldn't get it to work. I set up the debug launcher as you mentioned in the description. I did run the debugger but I'm getting the error:
/dev/ttyp0: No such file or directory.
I'm not sure how to solve this issue. It'll be great if you could give more information about the error and any ways to solve this will be greatly appreciated.
Please make sure the ssh server is running on your server and gdb is installed.
You can check this by connect by ssh to the sever from command line or from putty and run gdb manually .
Please send me the OS you run Eclipse on it, the server OS and the gdb version.
Please also send the whole console output when you run the debugger.
I do have a running ssh with the server, I'm using eclipse's synchronized C++ project to sync between local and remote through ssh. The remote and local machine has same version of gdb but the OS is different. I have mac on local machine and ubuntu on remote. Following is the console output I get when launched debugger through this plug-in:
###############################
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.10
Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu".
Type "show configuration" for configuration details.
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
Find the GDB manual and other documentation resources online at:
For help, type "help".
Type "apropos word" to search for commands related to "word".
It sounds the gdb in the plugin looks for the /dev/tyyp2 always for some reason. Your workaround sounds good. I will try to figure out why it wants /dev/ttyp2.
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Launching stuck at start
Submitted by Ainars Zvaigznitis on Mon, 2022-05-23 08:38
Eclipse 2022-03 (4.23.0) for windows - looks like the same problem as described below in 'Stuck in "Starting program"'. Launching (gdb at Linux) just stuck at "Starting program" - in my case at 20%, the same error message and nothing in console at all.
Re: Launching stuck at start
Submitted by Mohamed Abdelazim on Mon, 2022-12-05 22:34
Hi Ainaros,
I haven' tested 4.23.0. The last one I tested was 4.19..0. If you still have the problem, would you please try the plugin on 4.19.0
debugging frozen
Submitted by Jamie Mising name on Wed, 2022-04-13 08:21
I am running "Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers (includes Incubating components) Version: 2022-03 (4.23.0) Build id: 20220310-1457" locally on a Mac,
and debugging c & C++ executables running in a Linux machine, running "GNU gdb (GDB) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6.1-120.el7".
I installed "Direct Remote C++ Debugging 1.2.0.0" on my Eclipse and finished the setup.
The very begining of the debug worked well, But then after a while, the 'Variable's view showed errors on some variables, then all variables are empty now.
Even worse, now it is stuck in a step, none of 'Step Over', 'Step Into' or 'Resume' could move a step!
I could not even terminate the debugging. Seems Eclipse doesn't recognize any instruction from me.
What could I do? Any help is appreciated!
Re: debugging frozen
Submitted by Mohamed Abdelazim on Mon, 2022-12-05 22:36
Hi Jamie,
I haven't tried the plugin on 4.23. I tested it on 4.19. If you still have the problem, Do you mind testing it o 4.19?
Hi,
Submitted by Jamie Mising name on Tue, 2022-04-12 16:34
Hi,
I am running "Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers (includes Incubating components) Version: 2022-03 (4.23.0) Build id: 20220310-1457" locally on a Mac, and debugging c & C++ executables running in a Linux machine, running "GNU gdb (GDB) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6.1-120.el7". I installed "Direct Remote C++ Debugging 1.2.0.0" on my Eclipse and finished the setup.
The very begining of the debug worked well, But then after a while, the 'Variable's view showed errors on some variables, then all variables are empty now. Even worse, now it is stuck in a step, none of 'Step Over', 'Step Into' or 'Resume' could move a step! What could I do? Any help is appreciated!
Thank you in advance,
Jamie
Stuck in "Starting program"
Submitted by Shadi I on Tue, 2020-04-07 08:26
launching the debug configuration gets stuck at "starting program" (45%).
It gets stuck like this forever. Then if I try to abort I get the error: "Could not start gdb on the remote host by ssh. See console output for more details"
note: the console has no output at all. Even when I redirect to a local file.
passing arguements
Submitted by Shadi I on Tue, 2020-04-07 07:44
How can I pass arguements to the application being debugged? (the arguments tab in the normal debug configurations)
how can I change SSH ports
Submitted by Shadi I on Tue, 2020-04-07 06:22
I am trying to debug within local vm/container. So I need to change the ssh ports.. is this possible?
Re: how can I change SSH ports
Submitted by Shadi I on Tue, 2020-04-07 08:28
I managed to do so from the Remite system explorer modifybg the properties of the connection.
Re: Re: how can I change SSH ports
Submitted by Mohamed Abdelazim on Mon, 2022-12-05 22:37
Thanks Shadi for sharing with us your issue and the solution.
Problem starting debug session
Submitted by Tony M on Wed, 2019-02-13 15:02
Hello, I am trying to debug a program on a remote Linux server from my Windows laptop using your plugin. I set up a remote debug configuration, but when I try to start debugging, it asks me for SSH credentials, and then gives me this error: Error creating Terminal Do you have any idea what it means and where to get more information? I am not sure if I specified all the parameters for my debug configuration correctly - is there a tutorial on how to use your plugin? Any help would be greatly appreciated -- thank you!
Re: Problem starting debug session
Submitted by Mohamed Abdelazim on Tue, 2019-07-30 15:14
Which Eclipse versoin you are using?
Away from the pluing, try to create a terminal for this connection inside Eclipse and see if it works.
No, there is no tutorial for the plugin. The plugin is quit simple, the steps in the "Details" section here should be enough.
Problem with Setting remote system type in release 1.2.0.0
Submitted by ALAN O'KEEFE on Sat, 2018-08-18 23:19
I have installed version 1.2.0.0 in Eclipse Neon.
When I try and create a new Connection after selecting "Direct Remote Debugging Launcher", it pops up a dialogue box to "Select remote system type", but the list is empty? Am I supposed to setup the system types somewhere else in eclipse?
Regards
Re: Problem with Setting remote system type in release 1.2.0.0
Submitted by ALAN O'KEEFE on Mon, 2018-08-20 17:50
Sorry, that was Eclipse Photon, not Neon
Re: Problem with Setting remote system type in release 1.2.0.0
Submitted by Mohamed Abdelazim on Mon, 2018-08-20 10:13
You need to setup "Remote System Explorer" plugin.
You can do that from "Hep" -> "Install New Software....."
Re:Problem with Setting remote system type in release 1.2.0.0
Submitted by Mohamed Abdelazim on Mon, 2018-08-27 07:41
I have just fixed the problem by adding "Remote System Explore" dependency in the plugin.
Version 1.2 is available now
Submitted by Mohamed Abdelazim on Sat, 2018-08-18 20:26
The version 1.2 is avaible now. It includes a fix for "Error with command: gdb --version Cannot run program 'gdb': Launching failed" problem and many others problem as well.
SSH Ports
Submitted by Jack Heaff on Thu, 2018-06-21 08:45
Hi,
I am running Eclipse Neon on Linux and my target is a centos virtual box. I am using vagrant to contact the virtual box.
What SSH ports or GDBServer ports does your plugin use? I will have to set up port forwarding in my vagrant config file to allow this to work.
Thanks!
jheaff
Re: SSH Ports
Submitted by Jack Heaff on Fri, 2018-06-22 08:28
So I now have the remote debugging plugin working perfectly! It seems that if any of the "prerun commands" in the debug configuration contained commands that printed to stdout, like "pushd or popd", then the plugin seemed to fail. By piping stdout to >/dev/null it now works!
Unable to run gdb
Submitted by Kikouk Kikouk on Wed, 2018-05-09 04:49
I got the following error :
Error with command: gdb --version Cannot run program "gdb": Launching failed
It seems I'm not the only one : (see stackoverflow.com/questions/42143458/debugging-in-eclipse-with-remote-gdb). It is exactly the same behavior.
Re: Unable to run gdb
Submitted by Mohamed Abdelazim on Sat, 2018-08-18 20:27
Please try 1.2 version now, it should fix your problem.
Could not start gdb on the remote host by ssh
Submitted by Gael Alassoeur on Wed, 2018-02-07 07:51
Hi,
I think that I missed something in the configuration.
I have a Linux dev server with Eclipse and a solaris 10 Sparc target.
Workspace/ eclipse project and sources are shared via NFS
When I launch debugging, the process get stalled on "Starting Program".
On the server side, I see a new sshd process launched.
When I stop, I got the error "Could not start gdb on the remote host by ssh. See console output for more details"
In the debugger tab, the GDB debugger refers to one defined on the Solaris server.
Is there someone who had this pb ?
Thank you very much
Regards
Gael
Re: Could not start gdb on the remote host by ssh
Submitted by Mohamed Abdelazim on Sat, 2018-08-18 20:28
Please the new version 1.2. It could fix your problem
Re: Could not start gdb on the remote host by ssh
Submitted by Mohamed Abdelazim on Tue, 2018-04-10 08:07
What do you mean by "When I stop, I got error" did you stop for debugging for you stopped the sshd process ont eh server?
Your setup sounds correct.
Is the sshd process still running after it said "Could not start gdb on rmeote host"
I have the same problem as
Submitted by Erik Montnemery on Thu, 2016-09-01 15:09
I have the same problem as reported by Mohammad Abdo
I'm also running Windows 10 on my local PC with Eclipse Neon (4.6.0) and trying to connect to a linux machine over ssh.
The ssh connection itself is succesful, but launch of the debug configuration gets stuck with no error or debug messages.
Re: I have the same problem as
Submitted by Mohamed Abdelazim on Sat, 2018-08-18 20:29
Please try the new version 1.2. It could fix your problem
Getting the fallowing error
Submitted by Julian Hindelang on Tue, 2016-08-09 11:23
Getting the fallowing error message while drag the download on this page into eclipse:
Unable to read repository at http : //mabdelazim.github.io/DirectRemoteDebug/RemotDebugUpdateSite_1_1/content.xml.
org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException
Download it by search
Submitted by Mohamed Abdelazim on Wed, 2016-08-10 12:28
It sounds there is a problem in drag and drop.
Please search for "Direct remote debug" in eclipse market from eclipse, The plugin will appear first result. You can install it from this.
Different Issue
Submitted by Mohammad Abdo on Sun, 2016-07-03 10:43
Hi, I have a completely different issue:
I am running windows 10 on my local (laptop) with Eclipse mars (4.5.2), where as my server runs linux with gdb 7.5.1
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu".
I have tried to perform the process and it did not give me any errors but when it starts launching it takes forever at 24% and nothing happens after that.
Re: Different Issue
Submitted by Mohamed Abdelazim on Sat, 2018-08-18 20:30
Please try the new version 1.2. It could fix your problem
Same problem
Submitted by Erik Montnemery on Thu, 2016-09-01 15:09
I have the same problem,
I'm also running Windows 10 on my local PC with Eclipse Neon (4.6.0) and trying to connect to a linux machine over ssh.
The ssh connection itself is succesful, but launch of the debug configuration gets stuck with no error or debug messages.
Re: Same problem
Submitted by Mohamed Abdelazim on Sat, 2018-08-18 20:30
Please the try new version 1.2. It could fix your problem
New version of neon
Submitted by Mohamed Abdelazim on Fri, 2016-04-29 19:54
Hi All
The version 1.1 has been published for Eclipse Neon version.
The problems similar to /dev/ttyp0 are solved now.
Please give me feedback about any new problems.
bugs?
Submitted by Bryan Fok on Wed, 2016-03-16 04:21
I get "/dev/pts/23: Permission denied." error.
I got some idea what is
Submitted by Bryan Fok on Sun, 2016-03-20 22:42
I got some idea what is happening now. Each time the plugin hit the debug it try to connect to a dev/pts for input/output. But the plugin didn't get the one belong to my account (there are different users using the debug server aswell), therefore, it return a "permission denied" error. I have observed, each time the plugin try increment 1 on the /dev/pts, e.g. /dev/pts/14, /dev/pts/15, /dev/pts/16, etc.
Solution suggestion?
The new version 1.1 for
Submitted by Mohamed Abdelazim on Fri, 2016-04-29 19:55
The new version 1.1 for Eclipse Neon fixes this.
Re: I got some idea what is
Submitted by Mohamed Abdelazim on Wed, 2016-03-23 00:14
Does a normal ssh program likes putty works fine with same account ? If yes, I guess the problem in the ssh options which the plugin used. One suggestion is build a separate program which does only ssh connect with same as the plug-in and try to figure out where is the problem.
Source code is now available
Submitted by Mohamed Abdelazim on Mon, 2015-12-28 15:51
Hi All
The source code is now published in public.
You can find it in this URL
https://github.com/mabdelazim/DirectRemoteDebug/tree/master/src/org.ecli...
pids of the server process in gdb 7.2 and loading core files
Submitted by Asif Khan R on Tue, 2015-12-22 06:17
Just what i had been searching for more than a year. The existing remote debugging with gdb-server and gdb was not very easy to use, as we already had to do lot of cross compilations on linux and configurations on windows eclipse.
I used this and tried to attach a debugged to a running process of linux, it listed all my windows processes, i figured that it was because my version of gdb does not support listing the threads and process, so i had to write a hack to change the "listtasks.exe" to actually do a connect to the linux machine and get all the processes. Thought i will check with you and see if we can have an easy way.
Additionally, i have been trying to load a core file using the windows gdb to load a core. This means that i need to have a target gdb on my machine and it was not easy. Can we adapt this project to also work for loading core file. I would actually like to contribute. You could probably guide me how to start contributing and let me know ur email id.
Unable to debug remote application
Submitted by Bharath Narayan M G on Fri, 2015-12-18 04:35
Hey there,
I got the following error when I tried to debug a remote application.
/dev/pts/5: No such file or directory.
My gdb version is 7.2
gdb --version
GNU gdb (GDB) Red Hat Enterprise Linux (7.2-75.el6)
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/.
Anyone else seeing this? Solution?
Cheers!
Bharath
Gdb version 7.10 problem
Submitted by Mohamed Abdelazim on Mon, 2015-11-02 06:41
HI
Thanks for the information.
It sounds the plugin has problem with version 7.10 now. This version is not tested yet.
Please send me your contact email so we can add a support for it.
As as a temporary workaround you can install gdb version 7.2 on the server and make it the default gdb
Thanks a lot for sharing this with us.
Best Regards
Mohamed Abdelazim
Could not get it to work successfully
Submitted by Pranav Ladkat on Thu, 2015-10-22 18:18
I couldn't get it to work. I set up the debug launcher as you mentioned in the description. I did run the debugger but I'm getting the error:
/dev/ttyp0: No such file or directory.
I'm not sure how to solve this issue. It'll be great if you could give more information about the error and any ways to solve this will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Please make sure the ssh
Submitted by Mohamed Abdelazim on Tue, 2015-10-27 07:31
Please make sure the ssh server is running on your server and gdb is installed.
You can check this by connect by ssh to the sever from command line or from putty and run gdb manually .
Please send me the OS you run Eclipse on it, the server OS and the gdb version.
Please also send the whole console output when you run the debugger.
mac on local, ubuntu on remote, same gdb version
Submitted by Pranav Ladkat on Wed, 2015-10-28 18:45
I do have a running ssh with the server, I'm using eclipse's synchronized C++ project to sync between local and remote through ssh. The remote and local machine has same version of gdb but the OS is different. I have mac on local machine and ubuntu on remote. Following is the console output I get when launched debugger through this plug-in:
###############################
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.10
Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu".
Type "show configuration" for configuration details.
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
Find the GDB manual and other documentation resources online at:
For help, type "help".
Type "apropos word" to search for commands related to "word".
/dev/ttyp2: No such file or directory.
###############################
I got the same error. I use
Submitted by Nghia Nguyen on Wed, 2015-11-18 06:27
I got the same error. I use Mac OS 10.10 as host machine and Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit as remote machine.
As gdb cannot find
/dev/ttyp2on the remote machine, I create a link to/dev/tty1as a temporary solution:e.g.,
sudo ln /dev/tty1 /dev/ttyp2PS. You may want start from 0:
sudo ln /dev/tty1 /dev/ttyp0Hope this can help!
Thanks for this help
Submitted by Mohamed Abdelazim on Mon, 2015-11-23 03:05
It sounds the gdb in the plugin looks for the /dev/tyyp2 always for some reason. Your workaround sounds good. I will try to figure out why it wants /dev/ttyp2.
Version 7.10 problem
Submitted by Mohamed Abdelazim on Wed, 2015-11-04 01:37
Please find my last post as a reply to you.
The new version 1.1 for
Submitted by Mohamed Abdelazim on Fri, 2016-04-29 19:56
The new version 1.1 for Eclipse Neon fixes this.