Debug Server is running but VSCode says it is not

[jwoehr]

Trying to debug a COBOL program, starting the debugger reports Debug Server is not running but is indeed running.

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Context	Version
Code for IBM i version	2.10.1
Visual Studio Code version	1.89.1
Operating System	linux_x64

Active extensions

``` COBOL (cobol): 10.5.29 Code Coverage for IBM i (code-coverage-ibmi): 0.1.7 Code for IBM i Walkthroughs (vscode-ibmi-walkthroughs): 0.5.0 CodeLLDB (vscode-lldb): 1.10.0 Db2 for IBM i (vscode-db2i): 1.0.0 Dev Containers (remote-containers): 0.362.0 ESLint (vscode-eslint): 2.4.4 EditorConfig for VS Code (EditorConfig): 0.16.4 Emmet (emmet): 1.0.0 Error Lens (errorlens): 3.18.0 Git (git): 1.0.0 Git Base (git-base): 1.0.0 GitHub (github): 0.0.1 GitHub Authentication (github-authentication): 0.0.2 GitHub Pull Requests (vscode-pull-request-github): 0.88.1 IBM i Debug (ibmidebug): 1.0.0 IBM i Notebooks (vscode-ibmi-notebooks): 0.0.6 JSON Language Features (json-language-features): 1.0.0 Live Share (vsliveshare): 1.0.5918 Merge Conflict (merge-conflict): 1.0.0 MongoDB for VS Code (mongodb-vscode): 1.6.0 Node Debug Auto-attach (debug-auto-launch): 1.0.0 Path Intellisense (path-intellisense): 2.8.5 Prettier - Code formatter (prettier-vscode): 10.4.0 Server Ready Action (debug-server-ready): 1.0.0 TODO Highlight (vscode-todo-highlight): 1.0.5 TypeScript and JavaScript Language Features (typescript-language-features): 1.0.0 Vite (vite): 0.2.5 Vue - Official (volar): 2.0.10 ```

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Remote system

|Setting|Value| |-|-| |IBM i OS|V7R5M0| |Tech Refresh|3| |CCSID Origin|user| |Runtime CCSID|37| |Default CCSID|37| |SQL|Enabled |Source dates|Disabled ### Enabled features |/QOpenSys/pkgs/bin|/usr/bin||/QSYS.LIB|/QIBM/ProdData/IBMiDebugService/bin| |-|-|-|-|-| |bash|attr|ILEDITOR.GETMBRINFO|QZDFMDB2.PGM|startDebugService.sh| |chsh|iconv|ILEDITOR.GETNEWLIBL||| |git|setccsid|||| |grep||||| |ls||||| |md5sum||||| |sort||||| |stat||||| |tar||||| |tn5250|||||

Shell env

```bash ANT_HOME=/opt/apache-ant-1.10.1 BUILDLIB=JWOEHR CC=gcc-10 -pthread CURLIB=JWOEHR CXX=g++-10 -pthread HISTFILESIZE=50000 HISTSIZE=50000 HOME=/home/JWOEHR HOST=************** JAVA_HOME=/QOpenSys/pkgs/lib/jvm/openjdk-11 LC_ALL=EN_US.UTF-8 LIBLS=QTEMP QGPL LOGIN=jwoehr LOGNAME=jwoehr MAIL=/var/spool/mail/jwoehr NVM_CD_FLAGS= NVM_DIR=/home/JWOEHR/.nvm OBJECT_MODE=64 OLDPWD=/home/JWOEHR PASE_USRGRP_LIMITED=N PATH=/home/JWOEHR/bin:/home/JWOEHR/.local/bin:/QOpenSys/pkgs/lib/jvm/openjdk-11/bin:/QOpenSys/pkgs/bin:/QOpenSys/pkgs/sbin:/QOpenSys/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/QOpenSys/pkgs/lib/nodejs12/bin:/QOpenSys/usr/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/QOpenSys/usr/bin/X11:/usr/sbin:.:/usr/bin:/opt/apache-ant-1.10.1/bin PS1=\u@\h:\w\$ PWD=/home/JWOEHR SHELL=/QOpenSys/pkgs/bin/bash SHLVL=1 SSH_CLIENT=****************** SSH_CONNECTION=**************** TERM=xterm TZ=5,M3.2.0,M11.1.0 UBLU_HOME=/opt/ublu USER=jwoehr USERNAME=jwoehr WORKDIR=/home/JWOEHR _=/QOpenSys/pkgs/bin/env ```

Variants

```json { "american": "#@$", "local": "#@$" } ```

Errors

```json [ { "command": "/QOpenSys/usr/bin/qsh", "code": 1, "stderr": "CPF2111: Library ILEDITOR already exists.", "cwd": "/home/JWOEHR" }, { "command": "cd '/home/JWOEHR/work' && /QOpenSys/pkgs/bin/stat --dereference --printf=\"%A\t%h\t%U\t%G\t%s\t%Y\t%n\n\" * .* ", "code": 1, "stderr": "/QOpenSys/pkgs/bin/stat: cannot stat '.*': A file or directory in the path name does not exist.", "cwd": "/home/JWOEHR" }, { "command": "cd '/home/JWOEHR/work/cobol' && /QOpenSys/pkgs/bin/stat --dereference --printf=\"%A\t%h\t%U\t%G\t%s\t%Y\t%n\n\" * .* ", "code": 1, "stderr": "/QOpenSys/pkgs/bin/stat: cannot stat '.*': A file or directory in the path name does not exist.", "cwd": "/home/JWOEHR" } ] ```

[sebjulliand]

Are both the Debug Server and Service shown as running in the IBM i Debugger view?

[jwoehr]

Yes, it shows in that view as running! How odd ...

[mkwan01]

We have two sets of debug service PTFs before. The older ones are: v7r3 PTF SI80858, v7r4 PTF SI81031 & v7r5 PTF SI81035

And the newer ones are: V7r3 PTF SI83249, v7r4 PTF SI83261 & V7r5 PTF SI83262

The even newer v2.0 PTFs will be out soon. Please let us know which PTF you have.

[mkwan01]

IBM i Debug v2.0.1 was just released. It contains a number of fixes in debugger startup. Please upgrade to the v2 client (a host PTF update is also required) and try the same scenario again.

[jwoehr]

Where is the PTF announced, please?

[mkwan01]

IBM i Debug v2 client is available here: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=IBM.ibmidebug&ssr=false#overview

The Overview page also describes the required host PTF update.