Exception: GDBProtocol was unable to connect

[bukeyong]

When I try to run python3 test_pyperipheral.py, I run into the following problem：

2022-04-19 06:33:03,450 | avatar.INFO | Initialized Avatar. Output directory is /tmp/avatar 2022-04-19 06:33:03,456 | avatar.targets.QemuTarget0.INFO | QEMU process running 2022-04-19 06:33:08,531 | avatar.targets.QemuTarget0.GDBProtocol.CRITICAL | GDBProtocol was unable to connect to remote target Traceback (most recent call last): File "test_pyperipheral.py", line 121, in setup_func() File "/home/desh0ng/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/nose/tools/nontrivial.py", line 97, in newfunc result = func(*arg, **kw) File "test_pyperipheral.py", line 47, in setup_func avatar.init_targets() File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/avatar2-1.4.7-py3.8.egg/avatar2/avatar2.py", line 233, in init_targets t[1].init() File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/avatar2-1.4.7-py3.8.egg/avatar2/watchmen.py", line 78, in watchtrigger ret = func(self, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/avatar2-1.4.7-py3.8.egg/avatar2/targets/qemu_target.py", line 274, in init self._connect_protocols() File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/avatar2-1.4.7-py3.8.egg/avatar2/targets/qemu_target.py", line 314, in _connect_protocols connect_success = connect_success and gdb.remote_connect(port=self.gdb_port) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/avatar2-1.4.7-py3.8.egg/avatar2/protocols/gdb.py", line 399, in remote_connect return self._remote_connect_common('%s:%d' % (ip, int(port))) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/avatar2-1.4.7-py3.8.egg/avatar2/protocols/gdb.py", line 384, in _remote_connect_common raise Exception("GDBProtocol was unable to connect") Exception: GDBProtocol was unable to connect

[mariusmue]

Heya. The tests are sensitive to the directory they are run from - all of them are expected to be run from the top-level directory, so it should be: python3 tests/test_gdbprotocol.py

That being said, on my local machine, I run into some problems regarding the unix socket version of gdb protocol, but I believe that is currently local to my machine.

[bukeyong]

thank you very much! I haven't noticed the directory problem.

[bukeyong]

Heya. The tests are sensitive to the directory they are run from - all of them are expected to be run from the top-level directory, so it should be: python3 tests/test_gdbprotocol.py

That being said, on my local machine, I run into some problems regarding the unix socket version of gdb protocol, but I believe that is currently local to my machine.

It seems that the reason for this error is not just the path problem. I found that if the configuration of avatar is wrong, the exception "GDBProtocol was unable to connect" will also be generated. Hmm~, I'm curious how the entry point in the sample is determined? I tried to unzip the .bin file but it didn't work.

[b1ack0wl]

I've recently come across this issue and narrowed it down to a hard-coded timeout value in protocols/gdb.py. When connecting to a gdbserver instance the client downloads the running binaries from the server which can take longer than 5 seconds. Due to the function _sync_request() having a hard-coded timeout value of 5 an exception can be thrown when downloading the binaries from the server due to the timeout being hit.

Command that can take longer than 5 seconds: https://github.com/avatartwo/avatar2/blob/main/avatar2/protocols/gdb.py#L377 Hard-coded argument value: https://github.com/avatartwo/avatar2/blob/main/avatar2/protocols/gdb.py#L304

I changed my timeout value to 30 and it worked perfectly. I hope this helps :crossed_fingers: