no type named uint16 in rust

Description

So, I think I correctly installed pwndbg on my system, when I run simple rust code like this:

use std::io;

fn main() {
    let mut input = String::new();
    io::stdin().read_line(&mut input);
}

And I try to debug it using gdb with pwndbg I got this problem:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/pwndbg/pwndbg/events.py", line 165, in caller
    func()
  File "/usr/share/pwndbg/pwndbg/typeinfo.py", line 51, in update
    module.ushort = lookup_types('unsigned short', 'ushort', 'u16', 'uint16')
  File "/usr/share/pwndbg/pwndbg/typeinfo.py", line 39, in lookup_types
    raise exc
  File "/usr/share/pwndbg/pwndbg/typeinfo.py", line 36, in lookup_types
    return gdb.lookup_type(type_str)
gdb.error: No type named uint16.

My setup

gdb

Name            : gdb
Version         : 10.1-2
Description     : The GNU Debugger
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/
Licenses        : GPL3
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : glibc  ncurses  libncursesw.so=6-64  gcc-libs  expat  xz  mpfr  source-highlight  gdb-common=10.1  readline  libreadline.so=8-64  guile  python  libelf
Optional Deps   : None
Required By     : peda  pwndbg-git
Optional For    : rustup
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 9.72 MiB
Packager        : Anatol Pomozov <[e-mail]>
Build Date      : Wed 04 Nov 2020 08:44:41 PM CET
Install Date    : Sat 14 Nov 2020 11:15:29 PM CET
Install Reason  : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : Signature

python

Name            : python
Version         : 3.8.6-1
Description     : Next generation of the python high-level scripting language
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://www.python.org/
Licenses        : custom
Groups          : None
Provides        : python3
Depends On      : bzip2  expat  gdbm  libffi  libnsl  libxcrypt  openssl  zlib
Optional Deps   : python-setuptools [installed]
                  python-pip [installed]
                  sqlite [installed]
                  mpdecimal: for decimal
                  xz: for lzma [installed]
                  tk: for tkinter [installed]
Required By     : ...
Optional For    : ...
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : python3
Installed Size  : 77.85 MiB
Packager        : Felix Yan <[e-mail]>
Build Date      : Wed 30 Sep 2020 06:00:38 AM CEST
Install Date    : Fri 09 Oct 2020 09:13:49 PM CEST
Install Reason  : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : Signature

pwndbg

Name            : pwndbg-git
Version         : 2020.07.23.879.29f962c-1
Description     : Makes debugging with GDB suck less
Architecture    : any
URL             : https://github.com/pwndbg/pwndbg
Licenses        : MIT
Groups          : None
Provides        : pwndbg
Depends On      : gdb  python-capstone  python-unicorn  python-pycparser  python-psutil  python-ptrace  python-pyelftools  python-six  python-future  python-pygments
Optional Deps   : checksec: checksec command support
                  ropper: ropper command support
                  ropgadget: ropgadget command support
                  radare2: radare2 command support
Required By     : None
Optional For    : None
Conflicts With  : pwndbg
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 3.89 MiB
Packager        : Unknown Packager
Build Date      : Sat 14 Nov 2020 11:51:32 PM CET
Install Date    : Mon 16 Nov 2020 11:00:32 PM CET
Install Reason  : Explicitly installed
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : None

rustup 1.22.1 (2020-07-08) rustc 1.47.0 (18bf6b4f0 2020-10-07)

Small remark

I installed pwndbg using pacman at first, but it was not able to get correct the correct python version, so I had to install all dependencies in pip myself (I used a bits of information from setup.sh).

[mattcoding4days]

have you found a solution for the problem above? Thanks to all.

After posting my comment, I relalized the workaround everyone has been talking about.

If you make a simple rust project

cargo new gdbtest

build it

cd gdbtest && cargo build

open the debug executable with gdb

gdb target/debug/gdbtest

At your pwndbg prompt you must must manually enter the following

pwndbg> set language c

Then you can set your break point and run it, and it will work fine

pwndbg> b main.rs:1 pwndbg> r

Here is a screen shot for verification

[adamrozycki00]

pwndbg> set language c

Worked for me. @mattcoding4days Cheers mate!