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"Ignoring packet error" with vmlinux
- From: Ran Shalit <ranshalit at gmail dot com>
- To: gdb <gdb at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 11:41:08 +0300
- Subject: "Ignoring packet error" with vmlinux
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×××××× 20 ×××× 2015 19:03, "Ran Shalit" <ranshalit@gmail.com> ×××:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to debug kernel (vmlinux) with kgdb
> I am using gdb version 7.9.1.
>
> These are the logs in eclipse (host) and in target:
>
>
> In eclipse I see the following:
>
> Python Exception <type 'exceptions.ImportError'> No module named gdb:
> /home/ubuntu/dtu/jjj/gdb-7.9.1/gdb/gdb: warning:
> Could not load the Python gdb module from `/home/tigran/gdb/share/gdb/python'.
> Limited Python support is available from the _gdb module.
> Suggest passing --data-directory=/path/to/gdb/data-directory.
>
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> 0xc03e366c in arch_kgdb_breakpoint () at kernel/debug/debug_core.c:1049
> 1049 wmb(); /* Sync point before breakpoint */
> Ignoring packet error, continuing...
> Ignoring packet error, continuing...
> Reply contains invalid hex digit 116
> Ignoring packet error, continuing...
> Function "main" not defined. <-- lat message
>
> And in target I see the following:
> ....
> console [ttyS0] enabled
> console [ttyS0] enabled
> bootconsole [udbg0] disabled
> bootconsole [udbg0] disabled
> serial8250.0: ttyS1 at MMIO 0xe0004600 (irq = 17, base_baud = 16500000) is a 16A
> kgdb: Registered I/O driver kgdboc.
> kgdb: Waiting for connection from remote gdb...
> -+$OK#9a+$OK#9a+$QC01#f5+$#00+$c03e3650dd033e20dd0440000000002fe100650100000000d
> mtip32xx Version 1.3.1
> Error creating debugfs parent
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver
> ide-gd driver 1 <- got stuck here.
>
> Does anyone have any idea ?
>
> Regards,
> Ran
Hello,
The subject of email was wrong. I changed it.
Regards
Ran