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I am using JetBrains GoLand and I am trying to debug my go file and I am getting the following error:

decoding dwarf section info at offset 0x0: too short

I tried to find an answer here at StackOverflow but unfortunately, I didn't get any solution.

Jonathan Hall
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GoLand ships with a bundled version of Delve. Update to 2018.2.2 and it should work. If you need to do remote debugging, then you need to update your Delve installation on/for the target machine as well (make sure you compile it with Go 1.11).

Edit: There are two more possible cases where this issue can appear:

  • the application was compiled with all the debugging flags turned off and the additional debugging information stripped
  • the application uses the standard library "plugin" package, which is known to cause an issue in the Go compiler. This will be fixed in Go 1.12.
dlsniper
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    I had the same issue after updateing Go. Delve update helped: `go get -u github.com/go-delve/delve/cmd/dlv` – user318750 Mar 18 '19 at 08:31
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    GoLand ships with its own delve copy so updating the external version should not change anything. – dlsniper Mar 19 '19 at 04:29
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    Yes, I know Go ships with its own Delve copy, but the wierd thing is that I had this issue exactly after updateing Go. Everything started working again only after `go get -u github.com/go-delve/delve/cmd/dlv` – user318750 Mar 21 '19 at 17:14
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    For me it is located in `$GOPATH/bin` – tom10271 May 06 '19 at 10:11
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I would like to share my experience here too as it may be helpful for community, I made it works by doing the following:

  • Update Goland to 18.3
  • Also, in case if you have Mac, you should run xcode-select --install
  • In case if you had delv already installed inside GOPATH/bin, remove it and re-install it again by following instructions here
Muhammad Soliman
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For my Mac the problem is related to the dlv package as installed by Golang plugin.

  • Install delv and,
  • check the path of dlv as executed by IntelliJ (in the console).

Go to this directory 

($HOME//Library/Application Support/IntelliJIdea2017.3/intellij-go/lib/dlv/mac)

  • and rename dlv to any other name. Get the right dlv executable by using 

    which dlv (/usr/local/Cellar/go/1.11.1/libexec/bin/dlv for my computer)

  • and add a symbolic link 

    (ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/go/1.11.1/libexec/bin/dlv dlv).
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Christian Arnheiter
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  • You should just upgrade the IDE and this will work. Adding the symlinks will break the updater functionality, as far as I remember. – dlsniper Mar 19 '19 at 04:31
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After hours of effort, I was able to find the issue. It was due to Golang Plugin which is deprecated and was not compatible with IntelliJ IDEA 2018.2.2 (Ultimate Edition).

I uninstalled the plugin and reinstall the IntelliJ. Hope this also helps to above solutions.

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