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Segger J-Link Debugging Problem

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nirvanauscn
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On OSX by using the same FRDM-K22F board and Onboard OpenSDA/J-Link, with KDS 3.2 I can debug w/o problem, but with MCUXpresso 10 I can't. It seems MCUX doesn't provide proper commands to arm-none-eabi-gdb.

I tried the suggestion to delete existing debug configuration and recreate one from Quickstart panel as the following discussion, but it didn't help:

Cannot debug FDRM-K64F via J-link. 

See the attachment jlink_setting.png for the debugger setup.

J-Link GDB server connected successfully to the board, and started listening to localhost port 2331.

But arm-none-eabi-gdb didn't send the following command (existed in KDS):

target remote localhost:2331

and as a result MCUX aborts the debugging, shows a misleading message of "Cannot get Jtag device".

Here's the gdb trace:

280,936 2-gdb-version

280,937 ~"GNU gdb (GNU Tools for ARM Embedded Processors) 7.12.0.20161204-git\n"

280,938 ~"Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.\n"

280,938 ~"License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>\nThis is fre\

e software: you are free to change and redistribute it.\nThere is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitt\

ed by law.  Type \"show copying\"\nand \"show warranty\" for details.\n"

280,938 ~"This GDB was configured as \"--host=x86_64-apple-darwin10 --target=arm-none-eabi\".\nType \

\"show configuration\" for configuration details."

280,938 ~"\nFor bug reporting instructions, please see:\n"

280,938 ~"<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>.\n"

280,938 ~"Find the GDB manual and other documentation resources online at:\n<http://www.gnu.org/soft\

ware/gdb/documentation/>.\n"

280,938 ~"For help, type \"help\".\n"

280,938 ~"Type \"apropos word\" to search for commands related to \"word\".\n"

280,938 2^done

280,938 (gdb) 

280,939 3-environment-cd /Users/xxx/tmp/workspaces/mcuxpresso/frdmk22f_hellodemo_apps_hello_worl\

d

280,940 3^done

280,940 (gdb) 

280,940 4-gdb-set breakpoint pending on

280,941 4^done

280,941 (gdb) 

280,942 5-enable-pretty-printing

280,942 5^done

280,942 (gdb) 

280,943 6-gdb-set python print-stack none

280,943 6^done

280,943 (gdb) 

280,944 7-gdb-set print object on

280,944 7^done

280,944 (gdb) 

280,944 8-gdb-set print sevenbit-strings on

280,945 8^done

280,945 (gdb) 

280,945 9-gdb-set charset ISO-8859-1

280,946 9^error,msg="Cannot convert between character sets `UTF-32' and `ISO-8859-1'"

280,946 (gdb) 

280,946 10-gdb-set dprintf-style gdb

280,947 10^done

280,947 (gdb) 

280,947 11-gdb-set auto-solib-add on

280,947 11^done

280,947 (gdb) 

280,950 12-gdb-exit

280,951 12^exit

If I do everything from the command line, by providing "target remote localhost:2331", etc to arm-none-eabi-gdb, debugging is fine.

 

Also KDS's GDB Client Setup is more flexible than MCUX GDB Client Settings.

KDS has Other options, plus commands, while in MCUX there is no place to enter commands and options.

See kds.png.

Any suggestions how to address this?

Thanks

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BlackNight
NXP Employee
NXP Employee

The gdb error "Unknown remote qXfer reply: OK" seems to be related to a timeout of GDB. So maybe your machine somehow is not as fast than others, then it causes the problem (I think). At least I have found it in a OpenOCD post (OpenOCD - Open On-Chip Debugger / Mailing Lists ).

I don't have a Mac, but if it works for KDS, but not for MCUXpresso, I suggest to have a look at the start parameters for GDB. On KDS you can find them in the arm-none-eabi-gdb properties inside the Debug view (see Eclipse and GDB: Process Properties, Arguments and GDB Traces | MCU on Eclipse ). For example I have this:

C:\nxp\KDS_3.2.0\eclipse\../segger/JLinkGDBServerCL -if swd -device MK64FN1M0xxx12 -endian little -speed 1000 -port 2331 -swoport 2332 -telnetport 2333 -vd -ir -localhostonly 1 –s

The paramters in MCUXpresso you can find in the console view:

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Executing Server: C:\Program Files (x86)\SEGGER\JLink_V614b\JLinkGDBServerCL.exe  -nosilent -swoport 2332 -select USB -telnetport 2333 -endian little -noir -speed auto -port 2331  -vd -device MK64FN1M0xxx12 -if SWD  -nohalt -reportuseraction

What you might try is to use the monitor sleep command (see Workaround for “Error in final launch sequence: Cannot execute this command without a live selected ... ):

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Maybe this helps?

Erich

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lpcxpresso_supp
NXP Employee
NXP Employee

As detailed in the MCUXpresso IDE User Guide chapter "Debugging a Project" :  Use the Quickstart Panel -> Debug option to trigger probe discovery and start a debug session (the "blue" debug button on the toolbar is effectively a shortcut to the Quickstart Panel - Debug option).  

We generally do not recommend the use of the standard Eclipse "green" Debug button (unless you really know what you are doing and want to manually set up launch configurations).

Regards,

MCUXpresso IDE Support