[Bug Report]: Build crashing on custom OpenOCD build (VSC-532)

Pre Bug Report Checklist Before reporting any bug please make sure of these points.

• Make sure you have searched for existing bugs and features request before you post an issue.
• This is a bug report for the ESP-IDF Visual Studio Code extension and not an ESP-IDF bug report.
• I’ve read the docs and found no information that could have helped solving the issue.

Describe the bug

I’m having similar symptoms as https://github.com/espressif/vscode-esp-idf-extension/issues/270, but my case is slightly different, I’ll be thorough on this bug report…

After enabling remote_bitbang on OpenOCD (see PR https://github.com/espressif/openocd-esp32/pull/134), I cannot seem to be able to do anything with the extension anymore since the following error appears on any action (i.e Build):

{
  "message": "Open On-Chip Debugger  v0.10.0-esp32-20201202-2-g7e342cad (2021-01-02-23:47)\nLicensed under GNU GPL v2\nFor bug reports, read\n\thttp://openocd.org/doc/doxygen/bugs.html\n",
  "stack": "Error: Open On-Chip Debugger  v0.10.0-esp32-20201202-2-g7e342cad (2021-01-02-23:47)\nLicensed under GNU GPL v2\nFor bug reports, read\n\thttp://openocd.org/doc/doxygen/bugs.html\n\n    at /Users/romanvg/.vscode-insiders/extensions/espressif.esp-idf-extension-0.6.0/dist/extension.js:1:7720\n    at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:303:7)\n    at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:315:20)\n    at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (domain.js:483:12)\n    at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:1021:16)\n    at Socket.<anonymous> (internal/child_process.js:443:11)\n    at Socket.emit (events.js:315:20)\n    at Socket.EventEmitter.emit (domain.js:483:12)\n    at Pipe.<anonymous> (net.js:674:12)",
  "level": "error",
  "timestamp": "2021-01-06T11:34:05.666Z"
}

The error log above occurs as well if having OpenOCD up and running… my best guess is that idf_tools.py version checking logic is interfering with the extension Build task/command?

To Reproduce

Install a slightly tweaked OpenOCD version (different than the one shipped with the extension).

Expected behavior

Everything working fine as it should? 😃

Screenshots On each Build task, the following error block appears in the extension’s error log:

Environment (please complete the following information):

• OS Name & Version: MacOS X 10.15.2 (Catalina)
• VSCode Version: Insiders, latest
• ESP-IDF Version: master
• Python Version: 3.9.1

Logs

As shown above in the description.

Additional context

Please see PR https://github.com/espressif/openocd-esp32/pull/134 for more context. Also providing env vars I’m using:

  "idf.espIdfPath": "/Users/romanvg/dev/esp-idf",
  "idf.openOcdConfigs": [
    "interface/remote_bitbang.cfg",
    "target/esp32s2.cfg"
  ],
  "idf.customExtraVars": "{\"OPENOCD_SCRIPTS\":\"/Users/romanvg/.espressif/tools/openocd-esp32/v0.10.0-esp32-20201202/openocd-esp32/share/openocd/scripts\"}",

[gost-serb]

@brainstorm

EDIT: yarn debugPreTask to switch into development mode…

Looks like the extension was moved to yarn some time ago but some pieces of code still working with npm though. I would recommend you instead of commenting out "preLaunchTask": "npm: debugPreTask", line in launch.json try to replace it with "preLaunchTask": "yarn: debugPreTask",

Regarding the issue itself: did you check OpenOCD output on the output tab (Ctrl+Shift+U) when this issue occurs?

[brianignacio5]

There is a OpenOCD output tab (next to terminal) which is the openocd server log. The log you shown in the issue description is just printing openOCD version as an error, not related to the issue.