[Mono-list] remote debugging on ARM

[Ian Norton]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 08:35:25PM +0000, mickeyf wrote:
> So I am now able to run my app on the ARM, but I am not able to debug it
> there. 
> 
> The debugger waits, and apparently connects: When I click Connect a dialog
> box flashes by too quickly for me to read it, 'Stop' is enabled in the MD
> menu, and my app is apparently paused (no start up messages seen). 
> 
> If I have a break point the break point icon changes appearance, but I don't
> get the regular "paused' indication I'd see when debugging locally. Whether
> there is a breakpoint or not, if I try to 'continue debugging', step in,
> step out, do anything other than 'stop' I get either a SIGABRT or SIGILL
> message and am bumped back to the command line.
> 
> At one point I got exactly this:
> 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13925625/sigabrt-error-on-monodevelops-custom-command-mono-soft-debugger-on-remote-devic
> 
> but no one has responded to that query.

I get very similar things when my mono program calls into unmanaged libraries,
particularly if they are multi-threaded.

I find that it is not stepping over the breakpoint that does it but it is the
Locals or Immediate window trying to evauluate objects that kills things for
me.

I really miss the old mdb (hard) debugger where this didn;t happen.

Ian