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Installation => macOS / Mac OS X => Topic started by: Becca on April 11, 2018, 05:38:21 pm

Title: Debugger error High Sierra
Post by: Becca on April 11, 2018, 05:38:21 pm

I just installed Lazarus with gdb. Tried Run test with debugging and got a Debugger Error:

The GDB command:off
"-exec-run"
returned the error:
",msg="Unable to find Mach task port for process-id 2400:(os/kern) failure (0x5).

I have the Tools|Options|Debugger|General|Debugger_Startup_Options set to:
"--eval-command=startup-with-shell off" (quotes included)

When I just Run (which is for the first time using Lazarus) I get:
Debugger
Initialization output:
=cmd_param_changed,param="startup-with-shell",value="off"

so it seems as if the debugger startup option is being registered.

I also created a .gdbinit file in my home directory with the line:
set-startup-with-shell off

The Run test executes OK if I Run without Debugging.

I am at a loss about this. Can anyone help? Anyone else get this error?

Title: Re: Debugger error High Sierra
Post by: Phil on April 11, 2018, 05:45:47 pm

Quote from: Becca on April 11, 2018, 05:38:21 pm

I am at a loss about this. Can anyone help? Anyone else get this error?

https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,40814.0.html

This question gets asked regularly. Search the forum if that link doesn't help.

Title: Re: Debugger error High Sierra
Post by: Becca on April 12, 2018, 12:04:26 pm

I found that the (0x5) error noted in my original post above is indicative of a code signing problem. So I deleted the gdb certificate, recreated the gdb certificate (had to create a Login certificate, export it then import as a System certificate) then code signed the gdb binary (not the link at usr/local/bin/gdb. I originally signed this link and, re-checking myself steps, found that I had to sign the gdb binary).

codesign -fs gdb-cert /usr/local/Cellar/gdb/8.1/bin/gdb

Note that I used the "f" option to force sign the binary file because it had already been code signed by my previous installation attempt.

Then launch Lazarus (with Debugger_Startup_Options set to startup-with-shell off. I still get the same error message as enemy original post. (See attachment) I checked the 3 troubleshooting conditions in the GDB install wiki and all should be OK.

Note the location of the gdb binary on my (High Sierra) computer: /usr/local/Cellar/gdb/8.1/bin. Is this the location that others have for the binary? Have I still not signed the correct gdb file?

Thanks for any help. I'm still at a loss.

Title: Re: Debugger error High Sierra
Post by: Jonas Maebe on April 15, 2018, 08:04:11 pm

According to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49001329/gdb-doesnt-work-on-macos-high-sierra-10-13-3, gdb 8.1 does not work on High Sierra, but 8.0.1 does.

Title: Re: Debugger error High Sierra
Post by: dbannon on April 21, 2018, 05:55:21 am

Good catch Jonas
I have quoted you on http://wiki.freepascal.org/Installing_Lazarus_on_MacOS_X

Davo

Title: Re: Debugger error High Sierra
Post by: ThierryJ on May 21, 2018, 08:22:57 pm

Hello,

There is a mistake in the option's syntax. It should be :

--eval-command="set startup-with-shell off"

Exactly as is, with " set in the right place.

Enjoy.