Debugger in VS Code not working

[kuchx]

Hello!

Some intro: I recently had to switch laptops because mine had some HW issues and needed to be sent back to warranty. On the first laptop debugger in VS Code worked just fine and I could debug applications without any issues.

Now on the new laptop I re-installed everything like before following https://developer.nordicsemi.com/nRF_Connect_SDK/doc/latest/nrf/installation/install_ncs.html# this instruction but I upgraded SDK version from 2.5.0 to 2.5.2. Now when I try to launch the nRF Connect debugger it just flashes the nRF9160 dk and does nothing else. In other words the Debug option does exactly the same what the Flash option does. Since I did not want to bother with it in the beginning I just downloaded Ozone and used it, but I'd prefer to use the builtin nRF Connect connect debugger. Did not find any useful workarounds since most of the people that have some debugger issues at least manage to launch the debugging session but my system does not get that far. I checked nRF Connect settings in VS Code and did not find anything about debugger path (for example to use gdb) or anything like that. I haven't tried to downgrade the SDK bersion back to 2.5.0 because I believe that it is not the issue here (maybe will try next week if I have some spare time).

I'm probably missing something simple, but I can't find the root cause of this. I would appreciate any help to be able to use debugger within VS code.

I am working on Windows 10 22H2, VS Code 1.87.1, SDK and Toolchan version 2.5.2.

Thanks in advance,

Andris

[Elfving]

Hello Andris,

Could you check that you have the entire "nRF Connect for VS Code Extension Pack"  installed and what version it is? The newest as of now, seems to be v2023.11.3. I believe it should also install other extensions such as the 

Cortex-Debug extension, which might be what you are missing.

Could you also press the generate support info button, and give me the output?

Regards,

Elfving

[kuchx]

Hello Elfving,

Thank you for your reply. I just double checked that "nRF Connect for VS Code Extension Pack"  is indeed installed and I'm using the newest version (v2023.11.3) since I re-downloaded everything on friday. Though I do not see Cortex-Debug extension in the list but you probably meant C/C++ extension which should have debugger features.

I think I forgot to mention, I'm trying to debug blinky example in case that matters at all.

About the support information, I would give it to you but when I pressed the button "Generate support information" nothing really happens. There is this notification in the bottom right corner saying that the information is generating: 

but its been already 30 minutes and nothing happened. No info in terminal nor a file generated in project folder

[kuchx]

Hello again,

Just a heads up. This morning I upgraded SDK and toolchains in VS code to 2.6.0 version and that seems to fix the debugger issue, so I'll close this ticket. 

Also the "Generate support information" button started working. So I guess there was some sort of issues with 2.5.2 version. Anyway thanks for help!