Whenever I try to debug TensorFlow's C++ code with Eclipse + GDB, I get GDB crashing, or actually exiting with: error code = -1.
As long as I don't set a breakpoint in TensorFlow's C++ code, the program runs just fine. But when I do, and when the debugger gets to the breakpoint, it crashes after a few seconds with error code -1. There is nothing meaningful in the GDB traces which can explain this behavior.
The GDB version I am using is 7.7.1, running with Eclipse Neon under Ubuntu 14.04.
TensorFlow is compiled in debug mode. I don't think that Eclipse is missing the debug symbols for it, as it is not complaining that those are missing (and also, occasionally, the debugger is able to step through a few steps in the code before it crashes).
An easy way to reproduce is to try and debug the label_image example:
https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r0.11/tutorials/image_recognition/index.html
Compile it and then create a 'C/C++ Application' debug configuration in Eclipse, directing it to the compiled binary of the label_image app.
I've encountered the same problem with GDB on macOS. But, I finally succeeded to debug tf with lldb. And I also found that using VisualStudio Code + lldb makes it easy for debugging.
Here is my way of debugging. Maybe you can give it a try.
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I have a program that I have written in C++ under linux (Ubuntu 10.10).
The programming and debugging worked perfectly until the moment I added the following lines to the code:
mapfile = fopen(map_filename,"wb");
fwrite(map_header,1,20,mapfile); // <-- this is the problem line
fclose(mapfile);
After I added those, the program compiles ok, but the debugger now won't start. It immediately fails with this message:
Program completed, Exit code 0x177
error while loading shared libraries: unexpected PLT reloc type 0xcc
And if I remove the line with the "fwrite", the debugger will start normally.
This problem only happends inside Netbeans.
When I debug it using the command-line "gdb" it also works ok without any problems.
Anyone have idea why its happening and how to fix it?
P.S: Those problems started recently so I assume maybe it has to do something with system updates, I'm not sure.
Found the problem:
Not long ago, I removed some old C++ projects from netbeans. It figures out that netbeans (at least v7.0) remembers all the breakpoints that I put on old projects that don't even exist in the IDE anymore.
I found this by looking at the Debugger Console (Window->Debugging->Debugging Console) and seeing that when "gdb" starts, it tries to setup all these breakpoints from other projects or from projects that do not exists (this is a bug in netbeans, btw)
The solution: I simply cleaned all the breakpoints (inside Window->Debugging->Breakpoints) and now the program can be debugged properly.
Hope this will help to anyone out there who has the similar problem.
So, I have no idea why, but breakpoints in my code::blocks project are no longer working. I'm using MinGW-W64 compiler and GDB. I used to be able to use breakpoints, but now, for some reason, when I add them to my code they do absolutely nothing - code execution goes right past them without stopping.
Why might this be happening?
You might be compiling your code in release mode. Try changing it to debug mode. Checkout http://wiki.codeblocks.org/index.php?title=Debugging_with_Code::Blocks on how to turn on debugging symbols.
I have a big project solution that I am trying to execute, it builds perfectly fine in both release as well as debug mode. The problem is when I try to execute it the debug one is fine but release mode creates segmentation fault and creates a core dump.
Now can anyone help me about how to find out the line number in the code that might have caused the segmentation fault. I tried using gdb but couldn't do much.
Now can anyone help me about how to find out the line number in the code that might have caused the segmentation fault.
Not with the information you've provided (which is insufficient).
You should read GDB documentation. Here is a good place to start.
You should load the executable and core into GDB, and use where command to fund out which function you are crashing in.
Since the crash only happens in "release mode", you'll need to figure out how to add -g flag to your release mode build. Once you've done that, GDB will tell you the file and line number where the crash happens.
After I step through any code in this file in particular in a static library, gdb crashes after a couple of seconds.
I can step through other parts of the static library and shared libs that I have loaded and it works fine. The program runs fine and does not crash after gdb crashes.
gdb version 7.5.91.20130417-cvs-ubuntu on linux mint 15
How do I stop gdb from crashing in qtcreator?
If GDB is crashing, that sounds like a bug in GDB, from their docs:
If the debugger gets a fatal signal, for any input whatever, that is a gdb bug.
Reliable debuggers never crash.
Which version are you running/does upgrading to a newer version help?
provided as a supplementation:
I also encounter this gdb crash with qtcreator 5.0,after upgrade to qtcreator 6.0.1 ,error still existed with
"gdb crashed unexpectedly exit"
run the qt project is ok,when debugging ,and the qtcreator hit a breakpoint ,gdb will crash in about 3 seconds.
how I fix it:
remove cached QtProject folder under current user.
find . -name QtProject
in current user directory.
and remove the folder.
I encountered following problem:
I write program in c++ using VS2010. Debug build works properly when run with/without debugging in VS. When I launch built executable directly it also works.
Release build works when run with debugging in VS and alsp when I launch build executable directly.
Unfortunately, program does not work when I run release build in VS -without debugging-. Window is created and then program crashes quickly (without any error message). Since it crashes when run without debugging I don't know how to identify what causes the problem.
Any ideas what might be causing this? Thanks :)
It seems most likely you have some sort of memory error/corruption that just happens to work ok in the debugger.
You can try using couts to isolate how far/where it dies, or try a tool like Purify (or valgrind for free if you can port to Linux).