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nsight eclipse for mac lion debug error

I am using nsight eclipse edition for mac to debug my cuda code. I was able to run cuda-gdb all fine from a terminal but was not able to use the debug function in Nsight. Whenever I started to debug, an error window pops up saying "Error in final launch sequence Connection is shut down". My OS is Mac Lion (10.7.4).

I understand the big thing in Cuda 5.0 is the interactive debugging with eclipse but sadly I won't be able to use it unless I switch to Windows or Linux. If anybody has seen this or knows a workaround for this, please let me know and your help will be very much appreciated.

Thank you!

Solution

  • I'm afraid you've hit a known issue in CUDA 5.0 Toolkit. Due to some last-minute change, cuda-gdb (which is a shell script) is not entirely valid in Mac OS X. To remedy the problem:

    1. Edit cuda-gdb shell script.
    2. Make line #!/bin/sh the first line in this script.
    3. Save the changes

    We apologize for inconvenience. This (and many other) issues will be fixed in the upcoming CUDA 5.0 RC release.