STM32 – Failed to connect to debug stub

[Itamare]

Hello,

 

 

Solved the last issue by downgrading the Visual Studio to 2015 –

Now another issue –

 

Failed to connect to the debug stub. Please click “view gdb stub log” to see the detailed gdb stub output.

 

C:\Users\itamar\AppData\Local\VisualGDB\EmbeddedDebugPackages\com.sysprogs.arm.openocd\bin\openocd.exe -f interface/stlink-v2-1.cfg -f target/stm32f4x.cfg -c “gdb_port 53327” -c “telnet_port 53326” -c init -c “reset init” -c “echo VisualGDB_OpenOCD_Ready”
Open On-Chip Debugger 0.10.0 (2017-06-09) [https://github.com/sysprogs/openocd]
Licensed under GNU GPL v2
For bug reports, read
http://openocd.org/doc/doxygen/bugs.html
Info : auto-selecting first available session transport “hla_swd”. To override use ‘transport select <transport>’.
Info : The selected transport took over low-level target control. The results might differ compared to plain JTAG/SWD
adapter speed: 2000 kHz
adapter_nsrst_delay: 100
none separate
Info : Unable to match requested speed 2000 kHz, using 1800 kHz
Info : Unable to match requested speed 2000 kHz, using 1800 kHz
Info : clock speed 1800 kHz
Info : STLINK v2 JTAG v28 API v2 SWIM v17 VID 0x0483 PID 0x374B
Info : using stlink api v2
Info : Target voltage: 3.257255
Info : stm32f4x.cpu: hardware has 6 breakpoints, 4 watchpoints
Info : Unable to match requested speed 2000 kHz, using 1800 kHz
Info : Unable to match requested speed 2000 kHz, using 1800 kHz
adapter speed: 1800 kHz
target halted due to debug-request, current mode: Thread
xPSR: 0x01000000 pc: 0x0800da7c msp: 0x2000a000
in procedure ‘reset’
in procedure ‘ocd_bouncer’
in procedure ‘ocd_process_reset’
in procedure ‘ocd_process_reset_inner’ called at file “embedded:startup.tcl”, line 248
in procedure ‘stm32f4x.cpu’ called at file “embedded:startup.tcl”, line 370
in procedure ‘ocd_bouncer’

Error: jtag status contains invalid mode value – communication failure
Polling target stm32f4x.cpu failed, trying to reexamine
Info : stm32f4x.cpu: hardware has 6 breakpoints, 4 watchpoints
Info : Previous state query failed, trying to reconnect
VisualGDB_OpenOCD_Ready
Info : accepting ‘gdb’ connection on tcp/53327
Info : device id = 0x10036446
Warn : Cannot identify target as a STM32 family.
Error: auto_probe failed
Error: Connect failed. Consider setting up a gdb-attach event for the target to prepare target for GDB connect, or use ‘gdb_memory_map disable’.
Error: attempted ‘gdb’ connection rejected

 

 

device is connected, Eclipse systemworkbench works properly.

What can cause this issue?

 

 

Thanks.

[support]

Hi,

Looks like the OpenOCD build you are using does not support your device yet. Normally support for new devices is added to OpenOCD several months after the device is announced; then the updated version get picked up by our build system and released as a VisualGDB package.

If you don’t want to wait, we could easily walk you through building OpenOCD from sources and modifying it to support the device manually (it only requires specifying the FLASH size for your device ID so that OpenOCD can detect it).

[Itamare]

Hi.

Thanks for the reply, just too many issues with comping the script under VisualGDB, few more issues:

I am trying to compile and debug a custom board with F446RE on it, using the debugger(ST-LINK) from the Nucleo 446RE, this method absolutely works using SystemWorkbench – code runs perfectly.

I regenerate the code using CubeMX under GPDSC toolchain/IDE, import to visualGDB – get an error, openocd does not recognize my custom board with 446RE. Is there anything to do with it?

 

code compiles under Nucleo – STM32F446RET6U but not on custom board – STM32F446RET6

Thanks.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by Itamare.

[support]

Hi,

The STM32 SystemWorkbench uses a customized build of OpenOCD that supports more devices than the regular build. You can try manually copying the OpenOCD.exe and the related DLLs from STM32 System Workbench to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VisualGDB\EmbeddedDebugPackages\<…>openocd\bin. This should get OpenOCD to support the same devices as  the ST SystemWorkbench does.

Regarding compilation, if this is a separate issue, please let us know the errors you get and we will try to help you resolve them.

[Itamare]

Great. It works!

 

Thank you.

Sorry for too many questions, now when trying to analyze the code using VisualGDB, i got

‘multiple definition of TIM2_IRQHandler’, as i am using the timer for other purpose on my board.

Is it possible to tell the analyzer to use other timers which are not TIM1, TIM2, TIM6 and TIM11?

 

Appreciate your help.

[Itamare]

Got it.

Changed @SAMPLING_PROFILER_TIMER_INSTANCE

 

Thanks.

[Itamare]

Tried the profiler, another error:

Cannot find hook function (SysprogsInstrumentingProfilerHook) inside the ELF file.

 

followed this tutorial: https://visualgdb.com/tutorials/profiler/embedded/sampling/

 

 

[support]

Hi,

Looks like you are trying to use instrumentation-based profiler without calling the InitializeInstrumentingProfiler() function. Please ensure you call this function if you are using the instrumenting profiler (if not, please double-check your profiling settings, the error would only appear if the instrumenting profiler was selected).

[Itamare]

Yes. i am trying to operate the instrumentation-based profiler base on this tutorial –

https://visualgdb.com/tutorials/profiler/embedded/instrumentation/

I have the (#include <SysprogsProfiler.h>) and (InitializeSamplingProfiler()).

 

Problem still exists.

[Itamare]

Problem also exists when i open new project with just led blink.

Is it possible that this is related to the changes i made in the OpenOCD files?

[support]

Hi,

Please double-check the initialization function you are calling. For instrumentation profiler please call InitializeInstrumentingProfiler() as shown in the instrumentation tutorial, for sampling profiler please call InitializeSamplingProfiler().

Calling InitializeSamplingProfiler() for instrumentation-based profiling won’t work, sorry.

[Itamare]

Thank you. Code now compiled and runs but the ‘Live Profiling’ is empty –

Tried to mark both instrument: all function/only the function selected below with only few functions checked.

 

 

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[support]

Hi,

This could happen if the sampling is happening too often and the CPU is busy processing the sampling data most of the time. Please try modifying the sampling frequency to something like 100 hz and check if this fixes the problem. If yes, please try experimenting with the sampling frequencies to see the frequency that works.

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