Month: February 2018

Examining NodeJS core dump with llnode and lldb

Learning how to analyze .net core dumps on Linux with lldb and SOS plugin was really rewarding experience. It just feels good knowing that I can see managed stacks, objects and threads in something that looks very native and unmanaged. I saw there are also lldb plugins for Python and Java, but… can I do the same for NodeJS and JavaScript? Well,

OfCourse

There’s llnode plugin which does exactly that. Today I’m not going to go deeply into how it works – it’s not in the focus of my daily job now. But it’s still interesting to get a feeling of it. So, let’s dive right in. Continue reading “Examining NodeJS core dump with llnode and lldb”

The mystery of “Debug adapter process has terminated unexpectedly”

VS Code

Interesting story happened to me the other day. Visual Studio Code, my primary C# editor on Linux, suddenly stopped working. Well, it’s debugger did. Whenever I put a breakpoint and started debugging, nice friendly message would appear in the top of the editor, saying:

Debug adapter process has terminated unexpectedly

And it all worked just fine before. As recently I installed a whole bunch of new tools on my Ubuntu, such as lldb, perf and lttng, I played with removing and re-adding them again, reinstalling VS Code itself, but nothing seemed to help. Surprisingly, another C# IDE that supports Linux – JetBrains Rider – also failed to debug the projects I needed (worked fine with few others, though), so I had no other choice but try to get to the bottom of it, or at least make VS Code work again. Continue reading “The mystery of “Debug adapter process has terminated unexpectedly””