@c @c COPYRIGHT (c) 1988-1998. @c On-Line Applications Research Corporation (OAR). @c All rights reserved. @c @c $Id$ @c @chapter Troubleshooting This section describes symptoms in some situations where the debugger does not work correctly, and it gives guidelines for resolving the problems encountered. @section Target machine name unknown on the host RTEMS/GDB fails to connect to target machine named my_target: @example (gdb) target rtems my_target Attaching remote machine across net... Invalid hostname. Couldn't find remote host address. @end example @i{==> Ask your system administrator to add an entry with the Internet number of machine my_target in the file /etc/hosts on your host machine. } @section Debug server not present The target rtems command fails: @example (gdb) target rtems my_target Attaching remote machine across net... RPC timed out. Couldn't connect to remote target @end example @i{==> Verify that the target system is properly configured, and is running the debugging daemon and communication stack.}