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I have an Afafruit NRF52 board with SD 132 and 5.1 dual fw bootloader. I implemented RTT logging and controlling (input) and the code is compiled using arduinoBuilder with RTT and debug level 3. The device uses to control DALI lights but sometimes it hangs, I can see that it does not responses to input and light level never changes.

I want to debug it, maybe getting a stacktrace to see where it hangs, hoping it's a software issue.

Any leads on how to do that ? Tutorial maybe ?

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  • OpenOCD appears to support both the nRF51 and the JLink.
    – Majenko
    Jan 7, 2019 at 11:07

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I haven't tried this, but OpenOCD supports both the nRF52 and the JLink. Something like (on Linux):

openocd -f /usr/share/openocd/scripts/interface/jlink.cfg -f /usr/share/openocd/scripts/target/nrf52.cfg

might start OpenOCD.

You can then connect with (nRF52 flavour of) gdb (arm-none-eabi-gdb).

You can find information about using gdb with OpenOCD here and here.

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  • i was told i can use it with openocd and eclipse mcu plugin which is nice, but j-link supposed to be much more with his ozone debugger. i just didn't figure out yet how to debug the code with it or how to use the jlinkexe CLI tool to get a stacktrace, or even how to point it to the debug symbols, and of course i compiled with arduino ide so i have no clue where the debug symbols are, i assumenot in the *.bin*.hex files....
    – codeScriber
    Jan 7, 2019 at 11:28
  • and it's feather nrf52 no nrf51 the 51 tag is because i had to put a tag and there is not nrf52...
    – codeScriber
    Jan 7, 2019 at 11:29
  • Just change 51 to 52 then. OpenOCD supports both.
    – Majenko
    Jan 7, 2019 at 11:33
  • according to openocd it doesn't support non stop mode. i want to debug a running target, i'll explain. the atget seems to be "stack" doesn't responds, however if i use jlink commander and use halt then go presumably i didn't do much, stopped the cpu then resumed it, however it does causes restart and then i don't know what happen. i need to get a stacktrace or get the PC to be sure the cpu indeed doesn't stop...
    – codeScriber
    Jan 7, 2019 at 14:05
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    bummer :-( maybe i'll go for gdbserver method, for that iu need to see how to convert the project from aduino to eclipse mcu or Segger's "Ozeone"
    – codeScriber
    Jan 8, 2019 at 9:28

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