[Qt-creator] Problem with remote gdb

[Christian Gagneraud]

On 18 July 2017 at 07:29, Jeff Tranter <jtranter at ics.com> wrote:
> On 2017-07-15 02:30 AM, Christian Gagneraud wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm using Yocto Poky 2.3.1 for the BeagleBone, I have setup QtCreator
>> kits, and the remote host, I can compile and remote run a simple Qt5
>> program, but i cannot remote debug it.
>>
>> I can manually run gdbserver on the target, and manually run
>> arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gdb on the host, and debug my application this
>> way. But for some reason it doesn't work when using QtCreator.
>>
>> I'm using QtCreator 4.3.1 on KUbuntu-17.04.
>>
>> Is there any know problems with remote embedded linux devices or with
>> Yocto/Poky? Has anyone had success with this set-up recently?
>
>
> I see the same problem, with the same Yocto, Ubuntu, and Qt Creator
> versions, with a Raspberry Pi or the emulator. Gdb works from the command
> line. So far I haven't been able to identify where the problem is.

Have a look (and participate) to
https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTCREATORBUG-18577.
In short, poky env script pulls in it's own python, but default poky
SDK doesn't provide python-json.

Chris

>>
>> Details:
>> - The compile output pane says:
>> 18:01:38: Running steps for project testapp1...
>> 18:01:38: Configuration unchanged, skipping qmake step.
>> 18:01:38: Starting: "/usr/bin/make"
>> make: Nothing to be done for 'first'.
>> 18:01:38: The process "/usr/bin/make" exited normally.
>> 18:01:38: The remote file system has 6425 megabytes of free space, going
>> ahead.
>> 18:01:38: Deploy step finished.
>> 18:01:38: No deployment action necessary. Skipping.
>> 18:01:38: Deploy step finished.
>> 18:01:38: Elapsed time: 00:00.
>> - The application output pane says:
>> Debugging starts
>> Listening on port 10000
>> Debugging has failed
>> Debugging has finished
>> - Console/terminal messages:
>> QProcess: Destroyed while process
>>
>> ("/opt/poky/2.3.1/sysroots/x86_64-pokysdk-linux/usr/bin/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gdb")
>> is still running.
>> SOFT ASSERT: "state() == Inactive || state() == Running" in file
>>
>> /work/build/qt-creator/src/plugins/remotelinux/remotelinuxdebugsupport.cpp,
>> line 207
>> SOFT ASSERT: "isValid()" in file
>> /work/build/qt-creator/src/libs/utils/port.h, line 49
>> SOFT ASSERT: "d->applicationProcessHandle.isValid()" in file
>> /work/build/qt-creator/src/plugins/projectexplorer/runconfiguration.cpp,
>> line 775
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Chris
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