Hi all,

I'm debugging an application on base-nova and trying to get remote gdb set up for that. Using gdb on base-linux is not an option right now, as the application exposes a different issue there.

To verify that gdb works, I adapted the simple run/log example (see the attached delta). I'm using current master (f4ea50c6). When starting the run file, I see:

[snip] Genode 18.05-203-gf4ea50c6f <local changes> 469 MiB RAM and 63253 caps assigned to init [init -> uart_drv] --- UART driver started --- [init -> gdb_monitor] using the pipe libc plugin [init -> gdb_monitor] Warning: sigaction: sigaction not implemented [init -> gdb_monitor] Process target created; pid = 1 [init -> gdb_monitor] Warning: unsupported ioctl (request=0x40047477) [init -> gdb_monitor] Warning: unsupported ioctl (request=0x80047476) [init -> uart_drv] open IRQ 3 [init -> uart_drv] [init -> gdb_monitor] Remote debugging using /dev/terminal [init -> gdb_monitor] Warning: fcntl(): command 4 args 66 not supported - terminal [init -> gdb_monitor] Warning: fcntl(): command 6 args 4294967295 not supported - terminal

Then, I start gdb on the host from within the debug directory of the build:

$ ln -s ld-nova.lib.so ld.lib.so $ genode-x86-gdb test-log GNU gdb (GDB) 7.3.1 Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later http://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 "--host=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-pc-elf". For bug reporting instructions, please see: http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/... Reading symbols from /home/alex/Documents/Componolit_GmbH/Devel/src/genode-master/build/x86_64/debug/test-log...done. (gdb) target remote localhost:5555 Remote debugging using localhost:5555 Reading symbols from ld.lib.so...done. Loaded symbols for ld.lib.so warning: Unable to find dynamic linker breakpoint function. GDB will be unable to debug shared library initializers and track explicitly loaded dynamic code. _start () at /home/alex/Documents/Componolit_GmbH/Devel/src/genode-master/repos/base/src/lib/startup/spec/x86_64/crt0.s:43 43 leaq _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_(%rip), %r15 (gdb)

The Genode log says:

[init -> gdb_monitor] Warning: ptrace(PTRACE_GETREGSET (0x4204)) called - not implemented! [init -> gdb_monitor] Warning: read: no memory at address 0x1005d08 [init -> gdb_monitor] Warning: read: no memory at address 0x1005d08 [init -> gdb_monitor] Warning: read: no memory at address 0x1005d08

GDB does not seem to work correctly:

(gdb) bt #0 _start () at /home/alex/Documents/Componolit_GmbH/Devel/src/genode-master/repos/base/src/lib/startup/spec/x86_64/crt0.s:43 Cannot access memory at address 0x0

[init -> gdb_monitor] Warning: read: no memory at address 0x0

Any ideas what's wrong here?

Cheers, Alex