# \[ISSUE\] Particle: Flash for debug fails and puts device in error state. Also related to Failed to launch OpenOCD GDB. Server: Timeout

**URL:** <https://community.particle.io/t/issue-particle-flash-for-debug-fails-and-puts-device-in-error-state-also-related-to-failed-to-launch-openocd-gdb-server-timeout/53705>\
**Category:** Particle Workbench\
**Tags:** argon, workbench\
**Created:** [December 11, 2019, 3:01pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/issue-particle-flash-for-debug-fails-and-puts-device-in-error-state-also-related-to-failed-to-launch-openocd-gdb-server-timeout/53705 "2019-12-11T15:01:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![joel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9bd4f/32.png) [@joel](https://community.particle.io/u/joel)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2019, 4:44pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/issue-particle-flash-for-debug-fails-and-puts-device-in-error-state-also-related-to-failed-to-launch-openocd-gdb-server-timeout/53705/3 "2019-12-11T16:44:51Z")

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For the red SoS, debugging mesh on Gen3 can be problematic because of some hard real-time constraints that the debugger interferes with and can cause a fault.

[https://docs.particle.io/tutorials/developer-tools/workbench/#disabling-mesh-networking](https://docs.particle.io/tutorials/developer-tools/workbench/#disabling-mesh-networking)

I don’t have personal experience but sounds like that may be part of what you are running into.

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