I am trying to debug an application remotely in Eclipse. When I start debugging, the application is deployed and the gdbserver is started on the target. This seems to work automatically without any mistakes, but then following error occurs:

'Launching helloworld Build(GNU)' has encountered a problem.

Could not determine GDB version using command: /usr/bin/gdb --version

When I expand <<Details in Eclipse this is shown:

Could not determine GDB version using command: /usr/bin/gdb --version

Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding

ImportError: No module named 'encodings'

In a console on the target /usr/bin/gdb --version is showing me the version and when I open a Python shell I can import encodings without errors.

Does anybody know where this error comes from? I wasn't sure about how to tag this question since I have no clue in which area the solution will be.

What I tried so far:

• In Eclipse/Debug Configurations: Commands to execute before application: Several export commands to Python.
• Same in /etc/profile.
• bitbake -e python | grep "^PACKAGES=" : Inserted every python package into my image recipe via IMAGE_INSTALL_append.
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