The debugger crashed after the last update(esp-idf)

ilsur · May 4, 2021, 9:09am

The debugger crashed after the last update. a month ago everything worked fine. Out of about 30 attempts to start debugging, it worked 2 times (for reasons not clear to me). Previously, the debugger also broke down, but after dancing with tambourines, it started, but now I just spent 4 days trying to restore the debugger after the update. I didn’t make any progress in 4 days, the debugger just fell off out of the blue…

I would be grateful for your help, the platform is very cool, I would like to work on this platform, thanks!

PlatformIO Core, version 5.1.1
Python 3.9.2
Mac OS Catalina 10.15.6 (19G2021)

Platformio ini

[platformio]
lib_extra_dirs = /Users/ilsurahmetanov/Projects/PlatformIO/esp/esp-idf-lib/components

[env:esp32dev]
#platform = espressif32
platform = https://github.com/platformio/platform-espressif32 #feature/openocd-update
board=esp32dev
board_build.partitions = partitions_custom.csv
framework = espidf
debug_speed = 5000
debug_tool = esp-prog
upload_protocol = esp-prog
debug_init_break = thb app_main
lib_deps = ds18x20

[DEBUG CONSOLE]

undefinedWarning! `lib_extra_dirs` configuration option is deprecated in section [platformio]! Please move it to global `env` section
Preparing firmware for debugging...
Warning! `lib_extra_dirs` configuration option is deprecated in section [platformio]! Please move it to global `env` section
Processing esp32dev (platform: (The link was removed by me); board: esp32dev; framework: espidf)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Verbose mode can be enabled via `-v, --verbose` option
CONFIGURATION: (The link was removed by me) 
PLATFORM: Espressif 32 (3.2.0+sha.b9530d3) > Espressif ESP32 Dev Module
HARDWARE: ESP32 240MHz, 320KB RAM, 4MB Flash
DEBUG: Current (esp-prog) External (esp-prog, iot-bus-jtag, jlink, minimodule, olimex-arm-usb-ocd, olimex-arm-usb-ocd-h, olimex-arm-usb-tiny-h, olimex-jtag-tiny, tumpa)
PACKAGES:
 - framework-espidf 3.40200.210118 (4.2.0)
 - tool-cmake 3.16.4
 - tool-esptoolpy 1.30000.201119 (3.0.0)
 - tool-ninja 1.9.0
 - tool-openocd-esp32 2.1000.20201202 (10.0)
 - toolchain-esp32ulp 1.22851.191205 (2.28.51)
 - toolchain-xtensa32 2.80400.210211 (8.4.0)
Reading CMake configuration...
LDF: Library Dependency Finder -> (The link was removed by me)
LDF Modes: Finder ~ chain, Compatibility ~ soft
Found 43 compatible libraries
Scanning dependencies...
Dependency Graph
|-- <ds18x20>
|   |-- <onewire>
|   |   |-- <esp_idf_lib_helpers>
|   |-- <esp_idf_lib_helpers>
|-- <bmp180>
|   |-- <i2cdev>
|   |   |-- <esp_idf_lib_helpers>
|   |-- <esp_idf_lib_helpers>
Building in debug mode
Retrieving maximum program size .pio/build/esp32dev/firmware.elf
Checking size .pio/build/esp32dev/firmware.elf
Advanced Memory Usage is available via "PlatformIO Home > Project Inspect"
RAM:   [          ]   4.0% (used 13188 bytes from 327680 bytes)
Flash: [=         ]  11.2% (used 235652 bytes from 2097152 bytes)
========================= [SUCCESS] Took 18.59 seconds =========================
Reading symbols from /Users/ilsurahmetanov/Projects/PlatformIO/AUTOMATIC_DIST/.pio/build/esp32dev/firmware.elf...
done.
PlatformIO Unified Debugger -> (The link was removed by me)
PlatformIO: debug_tool = esp-prog
PlatformIO: Initializing remote target...
Open On-Chip Debugger  v0.10.0-esp32-20201202 (2020-12-02-17:38)
Licensed under GNU GPL v2
For bug reports, read
	http://openocd.org/doc/doxygen/bugs.html
adapter speed: 20000 kHz

WARNING: boards/esp-wroom-32.cfg is deprecated, and may be removed in a future release.
Info : FreeRTOS creation
Info : FreeRTOS creation
adapter speed: 5000 kHz

Info : tcl server disabled
Info : telnet server disabled
Info : clock speed 5000 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.cpu0: Debug controller was reset.
Info : esp32.cpu0: Core was reset.
Info : esp32.cpu1: Debug controller was reset.
Info : esp32.cpu1: Core was reset.
Info : accepting 'gdb' connection from pipe
Warn : No symbols for FreeRTOS!
Info : esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x400F0D9A, debug_reason=00000000
Info : Set GDB target to 'esp32.cpu0'
Info : esp32.cpu1: Target halted, PC=0x400F0D9A, debug_reason=00000000
Info : esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x40091856, debug_reason=00000001
Info : Flash mapping 0: 0x10020 -> 0x3f400020, 40 KB
Info : Flash mapping 1: 0x20020 -> 0x400d0020, 134 KB
Info : esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x40091856, debug_reason=00000001
Info : Auto-detected flash bank 'esp32.cpu0.flash' size 4096 KB
Info : Using flash bank 'esp32.cpu0.flash' size 4096 KB
Info : esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x40091856, debug_reason=00000001
Info : Flash mapping 0: 0x10020 -> 0x3f400020, 40 KB
Info : Flash mapping 1: 0x20020 -> 0x400d0020, 134 KB
Info : Using flash bank 'esp32.cpu0.irom' size 136 KB
Info : esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x40091856, debug_reason=00000001
Info : Flash mapping 0: 0x10020 -> 0x3f400020, 40 KB
Info : Flash mapping 1: 0x20020 -> 0x400d0020, 134 KB
Info : Using flash bank 'esp32.cpu0.drom' size 44 KB
Info : New GDB Connection: 1, Target esp32.cpu0, state: halted
0x400f0d9a in esp_pm_impl_waiti () at /Users/ilsurahmetanov/.platformio/packages/framework-espidf/components/esp32/pm_esp32.c:484
484	    asm("waiti 0");
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)
JTAG tap: esp32.cpu0 tap/device found: 0x120034e5 (mfg: 0x272 (Tensilica), part: 0x2003, ver: 0x1)
JTAG tap: esp32.cpu1 tap/device found: 0x120034e5 (mfg: 0x272 (Tensilica), part: 0x2003, ver: 0x1)
Info : esp32.cpu0: Debug controller was reset.
Info : esp32.cpu0: Core was reset.
esp32.cpu0: Debug controller was reset.
esp32.cpu0: Core was reset.
Info : esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x500000CF, debug_reason=00000000
esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x500000CF, debug_reason=00000000
Info : esp32.cpu0: Core was reset.
esp32.cpu0: Core was reset.
Info : esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x40000400, debug_reason=00000000
esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x40000400, debug_reason=00000000
Info : esp32.cpu1: Debug controller was reset.
esp32.cpu1: Debug controller was reset.
Info : esp32.cpu1: Core was reset.
esp32.cpu1: Core was reset.
Info : esp32.cpu1: Target halted, PC=0x40000400, debug_reason=00000000
esp32.cpu1: Target halted, PC=0x40000400, debug_reason=00000000
** Programming Started **
** Programming Started **
Info : esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x40091856, debug_reason=00000001
esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x40091856, debug_reason=00000001
Info : esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x40091856, debug_reason=00000001
esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x40091856, debug_reason=00000001
** Programming Finished **
** Programming Finished **
** Verify Started **
** Verify Started **
Info : esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x40091856, debug_reason=00000001
esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x40091856, debug_reason=00000001
** Verified OK **
** Verified OK **
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)
JTAG tap: esp32.cpu0 tap/device found: 0x120034e5 (mfg: 0x272 (Tensilica), part: 0x2003, ver: 0x1)
JTAG tap: esp32.cpu1 tap/device found: 0x120034e5 (mfg: 0x272 (Tensilica), part: 0x2003, ver: 0x1)
Info : esp32.cpu0: Debug controller was reset.
Info : esp32.cpu0: Core was reset.
esp32.cpu0: Debug controller was reset.
esp32.cpu0: Core was reset.
Info : esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x500000CF, debug_reason=00000000
esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x500000CF, debug_reason=00000000
Info : esp32.cpu0: Core was reset.
esp32.cpu0: Core was reset.
Info : esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x40000400, debug_reason=00000000
esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x40000400, debug_reason=00000000
Info : esp32.cpu1: Debug controller was reset.
esp32.cpu1: Debug controller was reset.
Info : esp32.cpu1: Core was reset.
esp32.cpu1: Core was reset.
Info : esp32.cpu1: Target halted, PC=0x40000400, debug_reason=00000000
esp32.cpu1: Target halted, PC=0x40000400, debug_reason=00000000
** Programming Started **
** Programming Started **
Info : esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x40091856, debug_reason=00000001
esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x40091856, debug_reason=00000001
Info : esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x40091856, debug_reason=00000001
esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x40091856, debug_reason=00000001
** Programming Finished **
** Programming Finished **
** Verify Started **
** Verify Started **
Info : esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x40091856, debug_reason=00000001
esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x40091856, debug_reason=00000001
** Verified OK **
** Verified OK **
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)
JTAG tap: esp32.cpu0 tap/device found: 0x120034e5 (mfg: 0x272 (Tensilica), part: 0x2003, ver: 0x1)
JTAG tap: esp32.cpu1 tap/device found: 0x120034e5 (mfg: 0x272 (Tensilica), part: 0x2003, ver: 0x1)
Info : esp32.cpu0: Debug controller was reset.
Info : esp32.cpu0: Core was reset.
esp32.cpu0: Debug controller was reset.
esp32.cpu0: Core was reset.
Info : esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x500000CF, debug_reason=00000000
esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x500000CF, debug_reason=00000000
Info : esp32.cpu0: Core was reset.
esp32.cpu0: Core was reset.
Info : esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x40000400, debug_reason=00000000
esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x40000400, debug_reason=00000000
Info : esp32.cpu1: Debug controller was reset.
esp32.cpu1: Debug controller was reset.
Info : esp32.cpu1: Core was reset.
esp32.cpu1: Core was reset.
Info : esp32.cpu1: Target halted, PC=0x40000400, debug_reason=00000000
esp32.cpu1: Target halted, PC=0x40000400, debug_reason=00000000
** Programming Started **
** Programming Started **
Info : esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x40091856, debug_reason=00000001
esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x40091856, debug_reason=00000001
Info : esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x40091856, debug_reason=00000001
esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x40091856, debug_reason=00000001
** Programming Finished **
** Programming Finished **
** Verify Started **
** Verify Started **
Info : esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x40091856, debug_reason=00000001
esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x40091856, debug_reason=00000001
** Verified OK **
** Verified OK **
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)
JTAG tap: esp32.cpu0 tap/device found: 0x120034e5 (mfg: 0x272 (Tensilica), part: 0x2003, ver: 0x1)
JTAG tap: esp32.cpu1 tap/device found: 0x120034e5 (mfg: 0x272 (Tensilica), part: 0x2003, ver: 0x1)
Info : esp32.cpu0: Debug controller was reset.
Info : esp32.cpu0: Core was reset.
esp32.cpu0: Debug controller was reset.
esp32.cpu0: Core was reset.
Info : esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x500000CF, debug_reason=00000000
esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x500000CF, debug_reason=00000000
Info : esp32.cpu0: Core was reset.
esp32.cpu0: Core was reset.
Info : esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x40000400, debug_reason=00000000
esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x40000400, debug_reason=00000000
Info : esp32.cpu1: Debug controller was reset.
esp32.cpu1: Debug controller was reset.
Info : esp32.cpu1: Core was reset.
esp32.cpu1: Core was reset.
Info : esp32.cpu1: Target halted, PC=0x40000400, debug_reason=00000000
esp32.cpu1: Target halted, PC=0x40000400, debug_reason=00000000
** Programming Started **
** Programming Started **
Info : esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x40091856, debug_reason=00000001
esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x40091856, debug_reason=00000001
Info : esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x40091856, debug_reason=00000001
esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x40091856, debug_reason=00000001
** Programming Finished **
** Programming Finished **
** Verify Started **
** Verify Started **
Info : esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x40091856, debug_reason=00000001
esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x40091856, debug_reason=00000001
** Verified OK **
** Verified OK **
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)
JTAG tap: esp32.cpu0 tap/device found: 0x120034e5 (mfg: 0x272 (Tensilica), part: 0x2003, ver: 0x1)
JTAG tap: esp32.cpu1 tap/device found: 0x120034e5 (mfg: 0x272 (Tensilica), part: 0x2003, ver: 0x1)
Info : esp32.cpu0: Debug controller was reset.
esp32.cpu0: Debug controller was reset.
Info : esp32.cpu0: Core was reset.
esp32.cpu0: Core was reset.
Info : esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x500000CF, debug_reason=00000000
esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x500000CF, debug_reason=00000000
Info : esp32.cpu0: Core was reset.
esp32.cpu0: Core was reset.
Info : esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x40000400, debug_reason=00000000
esp32.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x40000400, debug_reason=00000000
Info : esp32.cpu1: Debug controller was reset.
esp32.cpu1: Debug controller was reset.
Info : esp32.cpu1: Core was reset.
esp32.cpu1: Core was reset.
Info : esp32.cpu1: Target halted, PC=0x40000400, debug_reason=00000000
esp32.cpu1: Target halted, PC=0x40000400, debug_reason=00000000
Hardware assisted breakpoint 1 at 0x400d562b: file src/main.c, line 29.
PlatformIO: Initialization completed
Note: automatically using hardware breakpoints for read-only addresses.
PlatformIO: Resume the execution to `debug_init_break = thb app_main`
PlatformIO: More configuration options -> (The link was removed by me)

maxgerhardt · May 4, 2021, 11:05am

There is a weird space there and also the referenced branch doesn’t exist anymore (Branches · platformio/platform-espressif32 · GitHub)

What happens if it “crashes”? The log you show looks good, it uploads and verifies, then attempts to forward execution to app_main.

ilsur · May 4, 2021, 1:00pm

Thank you for answering me. I’ll switch to platform = espressif32 for now.

Debugging starts but does not stop at APP_MAIN, program execution does not start at all, it does not react to pressing the play button in any way, and so does the rest of the debug buttons. After stopping debugging, the controller must be restarted. It used to work fine and the python version is installed what Platformio refers to in its config files. The experiments have not yielded anything yet, I will be very grateful if you can help me figure it out, thanks!

The debug output ends with these lines, in normal operation it continued with additional messages, it feels like the application cannot start and the debugger loses control over it.

Hardware assisted breakpoint 1 at 0x400d562b: file src/main.c, line 29.
PlatformIO: Initialization completed
Note: automatically using hardware breakpoints for read-only addresses.
PlatformIO: Resume the execution to debug_init_break = thb app_main
PlatformIO: More configuration options → Redirecting...

maxgerhardt · May 5, 2021, 9:25am

Can you specify what exact update is meant here? VSCode, PlatformIO core, Espressif32 platform, framework, compiler?

Also, reading through [TW#24762] Debugger halts at app_main, does not show threads. · Issue #38 · espressif/openocd-esp32 · GitHub it is possible that the application does not hit the app_main breakpoint anymore because it has encountered a flash read error. Does the “pause” button work? Can you simultaneously look at the UART output with e.g. miniterm.py if an error is printed?

ilsur · May 8, 2021, 6:03am

The execution of the program does not start at all. Having experimented, I managed to launch the debugger a couple of times, the problem starts with USB ports, I use a cheap Chinese USB-TypeC to USB adapter, and in some cases, after disconnecting the connection, it worked. The problem does not seem to be related to Platformio. Thank you for responding and sorry that it took your time to lead you down the wrong path.

I am writing via google translator, I may not be very correct …