Topic created on: February 21, 2009 18:09 CST by hopkins .

Hi,

I'm currently having a problem enabling local kernel debugging using WinBDG.
I am using the Vista Home Premium operating system.

After going to File>Kernel Debug>Local, I see the following:
<img src=http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/b0a422089b.jpg border=0 height="100px" width="100px">

Obviously this is not what is supposed to happen. So I googled around and found a few possible solutions:
http://www.nynaeve.net/?p=114

From an elevated (administrator level) cmd.exe I issued the following commands:

C:\Program Files\Debugging Tools for Windows>bcdedit /debug on
The operation completed successfully.

C:\Program Files\Debugging Tools for Windows>bcdedit /dbgsettings
debugtype               Serial
debugstart              Disable
noumex                  Yes

However, after rebooting and running an elevated WinDBG, I am issued the same error as in the picture above.
Then I tried the following:

C:\Program Files\Debugging Tools for Windows>kdbgctrl.exe -db
Unable to set Kernel debugger block-enable, NTSTATUS 0xC0000354
    An attempt to do an operation on a debug port failed because the port is in the process of being deleted.

C:\Program Files\Debugging Tools for Windows>kdbgctrl.exe -e
Unable to enable kernel debugger, NTSTATUS 0xC0000354
    An attempt to do an operation on a debug port failed because the port is in the process of being deleted.

C:\Program Files\Debugging Tools for Windows>kd -kl

Microsoft (R) Windows Debugger  Version 6.6.0007.5
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Debugger can't get KD version information, Win32 error 5

It seems that nothing I do is allowing me to enable kernel debugging.
Any help or suggestions are welcome. I hope I have included all the information needed.