gdb fails with “Unable to find Mach task port for process-id” error

Question

My app runs fine but gdb fails to debug it with the following error

(gdb) run
Starting program: /path/to/app 
Unable to find Mach task port for process-id 83         


        

Answer 1

I needed this command to make it work on El Capitan:

sudo security add-trust -d -r trustRoot -p basic -p codeSign -k /Library/Keychains/System.keychain ~/Desktop/gdb-cert.cer