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Nir Berko
Nir Berko

Reputation: 1428

decoding dwarf section info at offset 0x0: too short

I am using JetBrains GoLand and I am trying to debug my go file and I am getting the following error:

decoding dwarf section info at offset 0x0: too short

I tried to find an answer here at StackOverflow but unfortunately, I didn't get any solution.

Upvotes: 18

Views: 14776

Answers (5)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1324258

Note: this is followed by go-delve/delve issue 1138 on go-delve side (not Goland).

It referenced at the time (2018) this answer, where Gogland is using its own dlv binary, as in previous answers on this page.

But it also mentions that upgrading to Go 1.12 was enough (Q2 2019).

It now adds a different cause (Q3 2024):

I did a

xcode-select --switch

to a different binary the other day and this messed up my development environment.
Switching it back to /Applications/Xcode.app fixed it.

The same thread also references issue 3797:

GOBIN=/Users/$USER/Applications/GoLand.app/Contents/plugins/go-plugin/lib/dlv/macarm go install github.com/go-delve/delve/cmd/dlv@b9fadba
# For application installed for all users
GOBIN=/Applications/GoLand.app/Contents/plugins/go-plugin/lib/dlv/macarm go install github.com/go-delve/delve/cmd/dlv@master

Upvotes: 0

Christian Arnheiter
Christian Arnheiter

Reputation: 31

For my Mac the problem is related to the dlv package as installed by Golang plugin.

  • Install delv and,
  • check the path of dlv as executed by IntelliJ (in the console).

Go to this directory 

($HOME//Library/Application Support/IntelliJIdea2017.3/intellij-go/lib/dlv/mac)

  • and rename dlv to any other name. Get the right dlv executable by using 

    which dlv (/usr/local/Cellar/go/1.11.1/libexec/bin/dlv for my computer)

  • and add a symbolic link 

    (ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/go/1.11.1/libexec/bin/dlv dlv).

Upvotes: 2

prashant
prashant

Reputation: 3318

After hours of effort, I was able to find the issue. It was due to Golang Plugin which is deprecated and was not compatible with IntelliJ IDEA 2018.2.2 (Ultimate Edition).

I uninstalled the plugin and reinstall the IntelliJ. Hope this also helps to above solutions.

Upvotes: 1

Muhammad Soliman
Muhammad Soliman

Reputation: 23766

I would like to share my experience here too as it may be helpful for community, I made it works by doing the following:

  • Update Goland to 18.3
  • Also, in case if you have Mac, you should run xcode-select --install
  • In case if you had delv already installed inside GOPATH/bin, remove it and re-install it again by following instructions here

Upvotes: 2

dlsniper
dlsniper

Reputation: 7477

GoLand ships with a bundled version of Delve. Update to 2018.2.2 and it should work. If you need to do remote debugging, then you need to update your Delve installation on/for the target machine as well (make sure you compile it with Go 1.11).

Edit: There are two more possible cases where this issue can appear:

  • the application was compiled with all the debugging flags turned off and the additional debugging information stripped
  • the application uses the standard library "plugin" package, which is known to cause an issue in the Go compiler. This will be fixed in Go 1.12.

Upvotes: 16

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