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Sometimes, one wants to debug a program that's already running. One scenario for this is debugging parallel programs using [https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/mpi/ MPI], or for debugging a long running background process. To do this, go to the menu entry <menuchoice>Run -> Attach to Process</menuchoice>, which will open a window like the one above. Select the program you wish to attach to and then click <menuchoice>Attach</menuchoice>. If you fail to attach to the process and get the following result:

Sometimes, one wants to debug a program that's already running. One scenario for this is debugging parallel programs using MPI, or for debugging a long running background process. To do this, go to the menu entry Run -> Attach to Process, which will open a window like the one above. You will want to select the program that matches your currently open project in KDevelop - in my case that would be the step-32 program.