decoding dwarf section info at offset 0x0: too short

GoLand ships with a bundled version of Delve. Update to 2018.2.2 and it should work. If you need to do remote debugging, then you need to update your Delve installation on/for the target machine as well (make sure you compile it with Go 1.11).

Edit: There are two more possible cases where this issue can appear:

  • the application was compiled with all the debugging flags turned off and the additional debugging information stripped
  • the application uses the standard library "plugin" package, which is known to cause an issue in the Go compiler. This will be fixed in Go 1.12.

For my Mac the problem is related to the dlv package as installed by Golang plugin.

  • Install delv and,
  • check the path of dlv as executed by IntelliJ (in the console).

Go to this directory

($HOME//Library/Application Support/IntelliJIdea2017.3/intellij-go/lib/dlv/mac) 
  • and rename dlv to any other name. Get the right dlv executable by using

    which dlv (/usr/local/Cellar/go/1.11.1/libexec/bin/dlv for my computer) 
    
  • and add a symbolic link

    (ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/go/1.11.1/libexec/bin/dlv dlv).
    

I would like to share my experience here too as it may be helpful for community, I made it works by doing the following:

  • Update Goland to 18.3
  • Also, in case if you have Mac, you should run xcode-select --install
  • In case if you had delv already installed inside GOPATH/bin, remove it and re-install it again by following instructions here