[Eric] eric4 remote debugger problem with forking parent and not stopping on breakpoints

[Timothy Delaney]

I'm having a couple of problems with the remote debug client in eric4 (4.5.2 r4312). I'm running linux on both machines with a shared nfs mount so the paths on both machines are the same. The IDE is in passive debug mode and the client connects properly. My call to the client is:

python /mntpath/eric4-4.5.2/DebugClients/Python/DebugClientThreads.py -h timsworld2 -p 42424 --fork-parent -- /mntpath/somefile.py

The problems are:

1. Not stopping at breakpoints. The remote client connects to my eric ide but does not stop on the first line or honor other breakpoints I've put in the code. I've tried the -n and -e options, but they didn't change this behavior.

2. Prompts to follow the parent or child process on subprocess calls - in this case I have many subprocess calls and always want to follow the parent. I noticed the --fork-parent mail list thread for eric5 - I tried it with eric4 and it didn't work. I also downloaded the source and a quick grep for 'fork-parent' found nothing... so I'm beginning to suspect that's an eric5 feature. 

Any hints on getting around these?

Thanks,
Tim



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