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linuxgdbqt-creatorubuntu-10.04ptrace

Qt Creator cannot run gdb on Ubuntu 10.04

My setup:

  • Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 32-bit
  • Kernel 2.6.32
  • Qt Creator 2.6.2
  • gcc 4.4.3
  • gdb 7.1

When I debug a simple "Hello world" console application, Qt Creator complains saying 

   Couldn't get registers: No such process

All solutions found on Internet rely on setting /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope, which is missing in this (pretty old) distribution.

I guess that the problem is somehow related to PTRACE settings.

Any idea how to solve this issue ?

Solution

  • I found a solution: disable the flag Run in terminal under Projects->Run.

    Once disabled this option, the project can be succesfully debugged with the console output shown on the bottom panel of Qt Creator.