Re: No step button using insight w/ remote target.

[Keith Seitz <keiths@cygnus.com>]

On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Grant Edwards wrote:

> Without the -nw option I run into a couple of problems:
>
>  1) Doing a "target remote /dev/ttyS1" command in the console
>     hangs gdb completely.

Hmm.. I cannot imagine why this happens. Is the baudrate set?

If you're on windows, you might try lowering the remote timeout. By
default, it is set to some fairly normal number, like 30. But as I recall
(maybe incorrectly now), the real timeout was HUGE on cygwin. Try setting
it to something like 1 and see if it at least times out.

>  2) Downloading with the "target" menu using the "continue" run
>     method and "set breakpoint" works OK, but when the
>     breakpoint is hit, none of the step, next, continue,
>     buttons are enabled.

This is usually symptomatic of pid/ptid problems in gdb. When your
attached (and the Control items on the toolbar are disabled), what do the
following commands return? (In Insight's console window)

(gdb) tk set ::gdb_running
(gdb) tk gdb_target_has_execution

Keith