Failed to launch child process <gdb.exe>

de Vaal.Ruud · ‎2019-09-03

Use ST visual development and all of a sudden I get this message:

>error=2 - "The system cannot find the file specified.

Ozone · ‎2019-09-03

Don't know your IDE.

But general experience tells me that many applications cannot deal with several instances at the same time, and refuse to start under that circumstances.

I would check if some comatose instance of gdb.exe is still running.

And, of course, that the executable is still there.

de Vaal.Ruud · ‎2019-10-14

For some reason all of a sudden it worked for some weeks and now I get the same error again out of the blue. Reboot of the PC with ST visual only did not solve the issue.

uhaid.1 · ‎2023-01-03

I had the same issue. uninstall and reinstall method did not work.

Update your windows, it works.

YIshi.1 · ‎2023-07-19

A few days ago, I made a mistake and left the weight on the return key, and a lot of STM32CubeIDE started up. I forcibly rebooted the PC in the middle, but after that I couldn't access ST-Link at all, so I had no choice but to process it on another PC.
Today, when I tried to debug with STVD (for STM8), I got the same message as the questioner. I thought that the ST-Link driver might be broken, so I reinstalled it, and it returned as if nothing had happened. Is it possible that the driver is corrupted?