[vard]

I’ve re-installed everything from  scratch, I no longer get that error, and the debugger seems to stop just fine at the first breakpoint! I can even step through the code!

Very nice, many thanks!

[vard]

Hi,

I’ve downloaded and installed VGDB 5.4 Preview 4 and the latest ESP32 toolchain (R10) but now I have a different issue: I can’t see the debug configuration. Under the “Debug settings” tab, I’ve selected “Debug using ESP32 Devkit” but I got a “Failed To Display Configuration” error:

System.MissingMethodException: Method not found: ‘BSPEngine.IAdvancedProjectDebugContext BSPEngine.IBSPConfiguratorHost.get_AdvancedModeContext()’.
at OpenOCDPackage.OpenOCDSettingsEditor..ctor(IBSPConfiguratorHost host, String baseDir, OpenOCDSettings settings, KnownInterfaceInstance context, Boolean autoDetectDevice)
at ESP8266DebugPackage.ESPxxOpenOCDSettingsEditor..ctor(IBSPConfiguratorHost host, String baseDir, ESPxxOpenOCDSettings settings, KnownInterfaceInstance context, Boolean isESP32)
at ESP8266DebugPackage.GUI.ESPxxOpenOCDSettingsControl.SetConfiguration(Object configuration, KnownInterfaceInstance context)
at VisualGDB.Common_GUI.WPF.DebugMethodSettingsControl.Controller.set_SelectedItem(MethodOrDeviceItemBase value)

[vard]

That’s very nice of you, thank you for going out of your way to help with this issue!
Looking forward to trying out the new preview release.

[vard]

Fair enough, thanks again for all the help!

[vard]

Hmmm…. I’m still seeing some problems, but of a more or less different kind this time around: On a clean memory ESP32 (flash erased), I can do a Debug Test Settings from VisualGDB properties page and everything works fine. Then I program the chip and run the program, no problem. But if I make any changes in the code and try to program again, the debugger fails to connect and program the ESP32. I get an error: Failed to get flash maps(-1)!

The stub log looks like this:

c:\sysgcc\esp32\esp32-bsp\OpenOCD\bin\openocd.exe -c “gdb_port 55856” -c “telnet_port 55857” -f interface/ftdi/esp32_devkitj_v1.cfg -c “adapter_khz 3000” -f target/esp32.cfg -c “echo VisualGDB_OpenOCD_Ready”
Open On-Chip Debugger 0.9.0 (2018-07-30)
Licensed under GNU GPL v2
For bug reports, read
http://openocd.org/doc/doxygen/bugs.html
none separate
adapter speed: 3000 kHz
Info : auto-selecting first available session transport “jtag”. To override use ‘transport select <transport>’.
force hard breakpoints
VisualGDB_OpenOCD_Ready
Info : clock speed 3000 kHz
Info : JTAG tap: esp32.cpu0 tap/device found: 0x120034e5 (mfg: 0x272 (Tensilica), part: 0x2003, ver: 0x1)
Info : JTAG tap: esp32.cpu1 tap/device found: 0x120034e5 (mfg: 0x272 (Tensilica), part: 0x2003, ver: 0x1)
Info : Target halted. PRO_CPU: PC=0x40009070 (active) APP_CPU: PC=0x400076DD
Info : accepting ‘gdb’ connection on tcp/55856
Info : Target halted. PRO_CPU: PC=0x4009170E (active) APP_CPU: PC=0x400076DD
Error: Failed to get flash maps (-1)!
Error: Failed to get flash mappings (-4)!
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

Going back to the VisualGDB Project Properties page, I can no longer get a successful test, the test console window displays the same message as the above stub log.

The only way I can get this back to work is to use the ESP32 Download tool to erase the flash. After erasing the flash, the test works correctly and I can go ahead an program the chip:

c:\sysgcc\esp32\esp32-bsp\OpenOCD\bin\openocd.exe -c “gdb_port 55959” -c “telnet_port 55960” -f interface/ftdi/esp32_devkitj_v1.cfg -c “adapter_khz 3000” -f target/esp32.cfg -c “echo VisualGDB_OpenOCD_Ready”
Open On-Chip Debugger 0.9.0 (2018-07-30)
Licensed under GNU GPL v2
For bug reports, read
http://openocd.org/doc/doxygen/bugs.html
none separate
adapter speed: 3000 kHz
Info : auto-selecting first available session transport “jtag”. To override use ‘transport select <transport>’.
force hard breakpoints
VisualGDB_OpenOCD_Ready
Info : clock speed 3000 kHz
Info : JTAG tap: esp32.cpu0 tap/device found: 0x120034e5 (mfg: 0x272 (Tensilica), part: 0x2003, ver: 0x1)
Info : JTAG tap: esp32.cpu1 tap/device found: 0x120034e5 (mfg: 0x272 (Tensilica), part: 0x2003, ver: 0x1)
Info : esp32: Debug controller was reset (pwrstat=0x5F, after clear 0x0F).
Info : esp32: Core was reset (pwrstat=0x5F, after clear 0x0F).
Info : accepting ‘gdb’ connection on tcp/55959
Info : Target halted. PRO_CPU: PC=0x40090616 (active) APP_CPU: PC=0x00000000
Info : Target halted. PRO_CPU: PC=0x4009170E (active) APP_CPU: PC=0x00000000
Info : Target halted. PRO_CPU: PC=0x4009170E (active) APP_CPU: PC=0x00000000
Info : Auto-detected flash size 4096 KB
Info : Using flash size 4096 KB
Info : dropped ‘gdb’ connection
Info : Restore debug stubs @ 0 on core0 of target ‘esp32’

All seems to be working fine after that except… it no longer wants to stop to any break points (again)!

During debug I can go into the GDB Session window and try the Diagnose Breakpoint Problems button but the answer is “No breakpoint problems detected”

So it worked beautifully the first time I tried the latest OpenOCD versions, but now it’s doing the same thing as before, plus the programming issue (I have to erase the flash to program it).

I tried it on 3 different debuggers (I tried ESP32 Devkit, Olimex and Segger Jlink) and two ESP32 boards (Devkit and ESP core V2).

Any suggestions?

Thanks again for all the help and support!

 

 

[vard]

Awesome ! Works like a charm! And thank you for taking your time to make the exe file, much appreciated!

 

[vard]

You are quite right, it was a project specific problem. I was trying to import an older IDF 2.1 project and I had an additional #include sdkconfig.h statement in one of the older header files.

Works well, now thank you very much!

[vard]

Thank you very much for the fast response, it looks like I had an issue with the toolchain and the path on my PC. I re-installed it and everything seems to be fine now.
All the best!

[vard]

I see… thank you!

[vard]

Left clicked on function, it appeared in the rightmost combo box, right clicked on the same function and here’s what I got:  Snap Shot 2

[vard]

It is hosted on my Dropbox. You can right click on the link and select Open Image in a new tab.

[vard]

Thank you kindly for your fast reply.

The Preprocess Selected Lines command appears upon mouse right-click and is functional, but the Code Map is not.

Please see snap shot  

• This reply was modified 6 years, 10 months ago by vard.

[vard]

Not sure if you’ve read this, some good information here: LIMITATIONS OF THE ESP32 DEBUGGING

[vard]

Please disregard question number 2 regarding the breakpoints, I read “LIMITATIONS OF THE ESP32 DEBUGGING”, 2 breakpoints (no wonder it was crashing at 3!).

Thanks!

• This reply was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by vard.

[vard]

Thank you kindly for your response, you were quite right, I had a connection problem indeed (broken wire inside the shrink tube of the test wire).

Found it with the logic analyzer, all is good now!

 

I can now run the ESP32 Demo as per your latest tutorial, picked up the LED blinky as suggested. The Jlink / OpenOCD seems to be working fine now, but I still have a couple of very quick questions:

1 – I get some messages in the GDB session window, and I’m too sure I understand what they mean:

Warning: could not set a breakpoint on main. ‘Step into new instance’ will not work.
Indeed, after loading the program, the debugger does not stop at main as I believe it should (I’ve got Stepping into new instance (F10) will stop in: main checked).

Cannot resolve the address of _estack. Skipping stack pointer validity check.

Obviously, if I un-check the box “Validate stack pointer when starting debugging”  the warning goes away, but I would still like to understand what it means.

Any suggestions?

 

2 – What is the maximum number of hardware breakpoints I can have with Jlink/OpenOCD on ESP32? I tried 3 breakpoints and the debugger crashed. I know I’m wasting a breakpoint stopping at main at start-up, I will un-check the stop at main box because the debugger never stops at main anyway, but I would still like to know the maximum number of breakpoints.

 

Thanks again for all the help and support!

 

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