[Bug Report]: F5 to debug, error with "Failed to init Debug Adapter" (VSC-837)

Press F5 to launch debug , a message box with the error “Failed to init Debug Adapter”. But if I manually execute “idf.py gdbgui” , everything works fine.

OS: Windows11 21H2(22000.469) VSCode: 1.64.1 vscode-esp-idf-extension: v1.3.0 esp-idf: release-4.4 [8153bfe4]

There’re many different development environments in my laptop, stm32, esp32, dotnet, java… So I’m not starting vscode as most other people doing. Instead, I start a command shell window, executing “$HOME/.espressif/idf_cmd_init.bat esp-idf-esp-idf-3bca1dcff0a1a9a66f79892b92e8174c” first, as pic below

After that change to a workspace, then execute cmd “code .” to start the vscode for my project.

esp-tools chain is installed into C:\Users\acebear\.espressif esp-idf is installed into C:\Users\acebear\source\esp-idf before executing idf_cmd_init.bat, only 2 esp related env-variables defined

IDF_PATH=C:\Users\acebear\source\esp-idf
IDF_TOOLS_PATH=C:\Users\acebear\.espressif

building, flash and any other functions are working fine, except “F5 Debug”, when I launch debug, there’s always a message box with the error “Failed to init Debug Adapter”. Any suggestion can I have a try?

the Debug console only 2 lines:

Debug adapter -> Extension: DEBUG_ADAPTER_STARTED
Debug adapter -> Extension: DEBUG_ADAPTER_READY2CONNECT

the output for “ESP-IDF Debug Adapter”:

DEBUG_ADAPTER_STARTED
2022-02-09 22:59:48,751 - Debug Adapter (main) - CRITICAL - Debug adapter -> Extension: DEBUG_ADAPTER_STARTED
DEBUG_ADAPTER_READY2CONNECT
2022-02-09 22:59:48,757 - Debug Adapter (main) - CRITICAL - Debug adapter -> Extension: DEBUG_ADAPTER_READY2CONNECT
DEBUG_ADAPTER_STOPPED
2022-02-09 22:59:48,799 - Debug Adapter (main) - CRITICAL - Debug adapter -> Extension: DEBUG_ADAPTER_STOPPED
[Stopped] : ESP-IDF Debug Adapter

the output for “OpenOCD”:

Open On-Chip Debugger  v0.11.0-esp32-20211220 (2021-12-20-15:43)
Licensed under GNU GPL v2
For bug reports, read
	http://openocd.org/doc/doxygen/bugs.html
debug_level: 2

Info : only one transport option; autoselect 'jtag'
Info : esp_usb_jtag: VID set to 0x303a and PID to 0x1001
Info : esp_usb_jtag: capabilities descriptor set to 0x2000
Warn : Transport "jtag" was already selected
Info : Listening on port 6666 for tcl connections
Info : Listening on port 4444 for telnet connections
Info : esp_usb_jtag: Device found. Base speed 40000KHz, div range 1 to 255
Info : clock speed 40000 kHz
Info : JTAG tap: esp32s3.cpu0 tap/device found: 0x120034e5 (mfg: 0x272 (Tensilica), part: 0x2003, ver: 0x1)
Info : JTAG tap: esp32s3.cpu1 tap/device found: 0x120034e5 (mfg: 0x272 (Tensilica), part: 0x2003, ver: 0x1)
Info : esp32s3.cpu0: Target halted, PC=0x420072B8, debug_reason=00000001
Info : esp32s3.cpu1: Target halted, PC=0x420189A6, debug_reason=00000000
Info : starting gdb server for esp32s3.cpu0 on 3333
Info : Listening on port 3333 for gdb connections

if I manually execute idf.py gdbgui, the web gdb debugger looks good

launch.json

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
      {
        "type": "espidf",
        "name": "debug",
        "request": "launch"
      }
    ]
  }

.vscode/settings.json

{
    "git.autoRepositoryDetection": "subFolders",
    "makefile.extensionOutputFolder": "./.vscode",

    "idf.pythonBinPathWin": "${env:IDF_PYTHON}",
    "idf.espIdfPathWin": "${env:IDF_PATH}",
    "idf.customExtraPaths": "${env:PATH}",
    "idf.adapterTargetName": "esp32s3",
    "idf.customExtraVars": "{\"OPENOCD_SCRIPTS\":\"C:/Users/acebear/.espressif/tools/openocd-esp32/v0.11.0-esp32-20211220/openocd-esp32/share/openocd/scripts\"}",
    "idf.openOcdConfigs": [
        "board/esp32s3-builtin.cfg"
    ],
    "idf.openOcdDebugLevel": 2,
    "idf.portWin": "COM5",
    "idf.flashType": "JTAG",
    "files.associations": {
        "timer.h": "c"
    }
}

the ESP-IDF: Doctor Command report looks very bad, but I think it is the “doctor command” perhaps has some bug, not the environment.

---------------------------------------------- ESP-IDF Extension for Visual Studio Code report --------------------------------------------- OS win32 x64 10.0.22000 System environment variable IDF_PYTHON_ENV_PATH C:\Users\acebear.espressif\python_env\idf4.4_py3.8_env System environment variable PATH C:\Users\acebear.espressif\tools\xtensa-esp32s3-elf\esp-2021r2-patch2-8.4.0\xtensa-esp32s3-elf\bin;C:\Users\acebear.espressif\tools\riscv32-esp-elf\esp-2021r2-patch2-8.4.0\riscv32-esp-elf\bin;C:\Users\acebear.espressif\tools\esp32s2ulp-elf\2.28.51-esp-20191205\esp32s2ulp-elf-binutils\bin;C:\Users\acebear.espressif\tools\cmake\3.20.3\bin;C:\Users\acebear.espressif\tools\openocd-esp32\v0.11.0-esp32-20211220\openocd-esp32\bin;C:\Users\acebear.espressif\tools\ninja\1.10.2;C:\Users\acebear.espressif\tools\idf-exe\1.0.3;C:\Users\acebear.espressif\tools\ccache\4.3\ccache-4.3-windows-64;C:\Users\acebear.espressif\tools\dfu-util\0.9\dfu-util-0.9-win64;C:\Users\acebear\source\esp-idf\tools;C:\Users\acebear.espressif\python_env\idf4.4_py3.8_env\Scripts;C:\Users\acebear.espressif\tools\idf-git\2.30.1\cmd;C:\Users\acebear.espressif;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH;C:\Program Files\SystemInternals;C:\Program Files\LLVM\LLVM\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\gnu-make\gnu-make\bin;C:\Program Files\dotnet;C:\Program Files\JAVA\jdk\bin;C:\Users\acebear\AppData\Roaming\nvm;C:\Program Files\nodejs;C:\Program Files\Python\Python;C:\Program Files\Python\Python\Scripts;C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v11.4\bin;C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v11.4\libnvvp;C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NVIDIA NvDLISR;C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\Nsight Compute 2021.2.0;C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common;C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v11.4\bin;C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v11.4\include;C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v11.4\extras\CUPTI\lib64;C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\cuDNN\v8.2.2\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\cmd;C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin;C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\gcc-arm\gcc-arm\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\STMicroelectronics\st_toolset\asm;C:\Users\acebear\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;C:\Users\acebear.dotnet\tools;C:\Users\acebear\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python\Scripts;C:\Program Files (x86)\COSMIC\FSE_Compilers\CXSTM8;C:\Program Files (x86)\COSMIC\FSE_Compilers\CXSTM32 System environment variable PYTHON undefined Visual Studio Code version 1.64.1 Visual Studio Code language en Visual Studio Code shell C:\WINDOWS\System32\cmd.exe ESP-IDF Extension version 1.3.0 ---------------------------------------------------- Extension configuration settings ------------------------------------------------------ ESP-ADF Path (idf.espAdfPath) ${env:ADF_PATH} ESP-IDF Path (idf.espIdfPath) ${env:IDF_PATH} ESP-MDF Path (idf.espMdfPath) ${env:MDF_PATH} Custom extra paths (idf.customExtraPaths) ${env:PATH} Custom extra vars (idf.customExtraVars) {“OPENOCD_SCRIPTS”:“C:/Users/acebear/.espressif/tools/openocd-esp32/v0.11.0-esp32-20211220/openocd-esp32/share/openocd/scripts”} Virtual env Python Path (idf.pythonBinPath) ${env:IDF_PYTHON} Serial port (idf.port) COM5 OpenOCD Configs (idf.openOcdConfigs) board/esp32s3-builtin.cfg ESP-IDF Tools Path (idf.toolsPath) ${env:IDF_TOOLS_PATH} Git Path (idf.gitPath) /usr/bin/git -------------------------------------------------------- Configurations access ------------------------------------------------------------- Access to ESP-ADF Path (idf.espAdfPath) false Access to ESP-IDF Path (idf.espIdfPath) false Access to ESP-MDF Path (idf.espMdfPath) false Access to ESP-IDF Custom extra paths Access to ${env:PATH}: false Access to Virtual env Python Path (idf.pythonBinPath) false Access to CMake in environment PATH undefined Access to Ninja in environment PATH undefined Access to ESP-IDF Tools Path (idf.toolsPath) false ----------------------------------------------------------- Executables Versions ----------------------------------------------------------- Git version undefined ESP-IDF version undefined Python version undefined Python’s pip version undefined -------------------------------------------------- Python packages in idf.pythonBinPath ---------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- Check ESP-IDF python requirements.txt ------------------------------------------------- Check ESP-IDF Python packages undefined ---------------------------------------------------- Check extension requirements.txt ------------------------------------------------------ Check Extension Python packages undefined ---------------------------------------------------- Check ESP-IDF debug adapter requirements.txt ------------------------------------------ Check Debug AdapterPython packages undefined ----------------------------------------------------------- Latest error ----------------------------------------------------------------- Latest error at Command failed: “/usr/bin/git” --version ϵͳ�Ҳ���ָ����·����

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[brianignacio5]

Thanks for your feedback @acebearxp closing this issue then.

Please let me know if you have an additional issue, will be releasing this new version to marketplace soon!

[acebearxp]

After power-off chip restart openocd and vscode, this time, it works!

here is the same log file, but every thing is ok. DEBUG CONSOLE_GOOD.txt OUTPUT-ESP-IDF Debug Adapter_GOOD.txt OUTPUT-OpenOCD_GOOD.txt