An error occurred while attaching debugger to the application. spawn EINVAL (error code 1410)

React Native
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So I’m following along Mosh’s React native course and I’m having the error with the message in the title. And it seems a lot of other people all over the web are having the same error I am.

My configuration is the following:
“version”: “0.2.0”,
“configurations”: [

    {
        "name": "Debug Android",
        "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",
        "type": "reactnative",
        "request": "launch",
        "platform": "android"
    },
    {
        "name": "Attach to packager",
        "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",
        "type": "reactnative",
        "request": "attach",
        "sourceMaps": true,
        "port": 19000
    }
]

The only change I made is adding port to the second one. I asked and followed the steps given by Copilot I;ll log them here:

  1. Ensure the packager is running. I’ve used both commands npm start and expo start.
  2. check the Debugger Configuration. Done see above
  3. Check for port conflicts. Done using netstat in PowerShell. Port 19000 is free
  4. Update dependencies. Done with npm install since I’m on Windows 11
  5. clear cache, Done with expo start -c

Since all of these troubleshooting steps have been done I wonder if the problem is with the extension, React native Tools. Maybe there is a bug with it and the best approach is to use something else for debugging.

2

Hi you can take a look at the video below which uses react native tools and see if you can get it to work that way

3

sadly this didn’t work. I should mention that I’m on Windows not on mac