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Debugging Go does not work

See original GitHub issue

code-server version:

$ code-server --version
server/development linux-x64 node-v8.15.0

OS Version:

$ cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="16.04.6 LTS (Xenial Xerus)"
...

Description

Cannot debug Go. It stays in a loop for a while, cannot find any log failures.

Steps to Reproduce

Start the server and log in
Write a go file
Add a breakpoint somewhere
Click “debug”
Hit “run”

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 5 years ago
Reactions:2
Comments:9 (4 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

5reactions

kylecarbscommented, Mar 15, 2019

Will fix ASAP!

1reaction

isaiahtaylorcommented, Mar 22, 2019

I appreciate the quick work on this. Sorry for my delay. The environment that I am working on has a kernel that is too old to support Ubuntu 18, so I had to fork this repo and back port to Ubuntu 16. I’ll try to merge these changes soon and let you know if it fixed it for me.

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