Need ability to cancel debug session on connection failure.

[Andrew Neil]

When the connection fails “unexpectedly”, CubeIDE keeps re-trying for a long time:

 

Although “unexpected” to the IDE, the reason may be obvious to the user - so it would be useful to be able to cancel these retries, exit the Debug Session, and return to the C/C++ perspective.

 

See also:

 

[Mahmoud Ben Romdhane]

Hello ​@Andrew Neil 

Let me thank you for your feedback.

I reproduced the behavior described in STM32CubeIDE, and when the connection fails “unexpectedly,” CubeIDE does not continue to retry for very long:

 

Thanks.

Mahmoud

[Andrew Neil]

Hmmm … I’m using CubeIDE v2.1.1 on Windows 11 Pro - you can see that it does take *much* longer than yours.

I think it always has done - certainly in v1.13.0

The above is with the ST-Link of a Nucleo-F030, when the SWD pins are set to analogue by the application.

So the target remains powered-up and physically connected, but SWD comms is lost.

[Andrew Neil]

The above is with the ST-Link of a Nucleo-F030, when the SWD pins are set to analogue by the application.

 

​@Mahmoud Ben Romdhane - If I do just remove the Target power, it does timeout a lot quicker:

That takes ~11s