Debugging Archives - The Golioth Developer Blog https://blog.golioth.io/tag/debugging/ Golioth, Zephyr, and IoT Development News and How Tos Thu, 11 Sep 2025 20:41:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://blog.golioth.io/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/cropped-Golioth_Symbol_Coral_RGB-1-32x32.png Debugging Archives - The Golioth Developer Blog https://blog.golioth.io/tag/debugging/ 32 32 Zephyr for Hardware Engineers: GDB Debugging https://blog.golioth.io/zephyr-for-hardware-engineers-gdb-debugging/ Thu, 11 Sep 2025 19:00:51 +0000 https://blog.golioth.io/?p=10074 Debugging a Zephyr program with GDB can be tough for newcomers, especially if they're used to more vertically integrated IDE solutions. Let's get hardware engineers (and others!) started digging into a command-line based solution.

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]]> How to Debug MCUboot (and Why I Needed To) https://blog.golioth.io/how-to-debug-mcuboot-and-why-i-needed-to/ Thu, 13 Jun 2024 14:30:06 +0000 https://goliothblogdev.wpenginepowered.com/?p=7325 Golioth firmware engineer Mike Szczys walks through debugging the MCUboot bootloader using gdb. This is a slightly different task than normal Zephyr debugging, but can help to find tricky bugs.

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]]> How to Debug a Network Error in Zephyr https://blog.golioth.io/how-to-debug-a-network-error-in-zephyr/ Tue, 21 May 2024 14:43:54 +0000 https://goliothblogdev.wpenginepowered.com/?p=7153 Zephyr has built-in debugging for many of its supported boards. Here's a real-world example of utilizing the these tools to track down and fix a networking error with CoAP.

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]]> Creating a portable Ozone project file https://blog.golioth.io/creating-a-portable-ozone-project-file/ Tue, 02 Apr 2024 15:01:09 +0000 https://goliothblogdev.wpenginepowered.com/?p=5406 Learn how to create a portable Ozone project file that you can check into a git repository for future debugging of Zephyr applications.

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]]> Debugging nRF9160 Zephyr applications with Ozone https://blog.golioth.io/debugging-nrf9160-zephyr-applications-with-ozone/ Tue, 17 Oct 2023 14:22:58 +0000 https://goliothblogdev.wpenginepowered.com/?p=5250 Ozone is a free graphical debugger for embedded firmware from SEGGER. It’s a powerful tool that can give you deep visibility into what’s happening in your embedded system. It’s especially useful when debugging nRF9160 Zephyr apps. Sorting out multiple threads and multi image builds can be tough, but this is the tool you want. In […]

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]]> Taking the next step: Debugging with SEGGER Ozone and SystemView on Zephyr https://blog.golioth.io/taking-the-next-step-debugging-with-segger-ozone-and-systemview-on-zephyr/ Tue, 24 May 2022 14:20:04 +0000 https://blog.golioth.network/?p=2142 Golioth showcases how to use SEGGER J-Link, Ozone, and SystemView to optimize your Zephyr programs and dig deeper into Real Time Operating Systems.

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]]> Debugging Zephyr for Beginners: printk() and the Logging Subsystem https://blog.golioth.io/debugging-zephyr-for-beginners-printk-and-the-logging-subsystem/ Tue, 08 Feb 2022 15:37:39 +0000 https://blog.golioth.network/?p=690 Zephyr has a number of tools to aid in debugging during your development process. Today we’re focusing on the most available and widely useful of these: printing message to a terminal and enabling logging messages. New to Golioth? Sign up for our newsletter to keep learning more about IoT development or create your free Golioth […]

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