Unsolved Qt Creator unable to start debugger

[mjohn]

When I click 'Start Debugging' (F5) I immediately get an error dialog saying:
"The inferior stopped because it received a signal from the operating system."
Signal name: SIGSEGV

So something got a segmentation fault but I'm not able to determine what that is. From the 'Application Output' window it only prints out 'Debugging starts'. The application runs normally outside of the debugger (Ctrl+R).
This is on Linux Mint (Debian 9 base) with Qt Creator 4.5.1.

[mrjj]

Hi
Sorry for the wait. you post must have gone under the radar.

Did you check what GDB you have installed?

https://doc.qt.io/qtcreator/creator-debugger-engines.html
" The minimum supported version is GDB 7.5 using Python version 2.7, or 3.3, or newer."

[aha_1980]

Hi @mjohn,

just to add to @mrjj, the Debugger Log under Windows > Views might give some more insight what's going on.

Regards

[mjohn]

Hi @aha_1980,
This provided some useful additional info, which I've attached below.

>408^running
dNOTE: ENGINE RUN AND INFERIOR RUN OK
sRunning.
dState changed from EngineRunRequested(7) to InferiorRunOk(11)
dNOTE: ENGINE RUN AND INFERIOR RUN OK
sRunning.
dState changed from EngineRunRequested(7) to InferiorRunOk(11) [master]
dINFERIOR STARTED
sApplication started.
>*running,thread-id="all"
dNOTE: INFERIOR STILL RUNNING IN STATE InferiorRunOk.

>~"\nProgram"
>~" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.\n"
>~"0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()\n"
>*stopped,reason="signal-received",signal-name="SIGSEGV",signal-meaning="Segmentation fault",frame={addr="0x0000000000000000",func="??",args=[]},thread-id="1",stopped-threads="all",core="1"
dNOTE: INFERIOR SPONTANEOUS STOP
sStopped.
dState changed from InferiorRunOk(11) to InferiorStopOk(14)
dNOTE: INFERIOR SPONTANEOUS STOP
sStopped.
dState changed from InferiorRunOk(11) to InferiorStopOk(14) [master]
<409importPlainDumpers off
dHANDLING SIGNAL SIGSEGV
sStopped: Segmentation fault (Signal SIGSEGV).

The GDB version that it found is version 7.12.0.