Oh no, I absolutely trust Brendan too I'm just sayin'. Brendan's blog post was very easy to follow and the image appears to work fine, but if I can't debug my app (in C/C++) it's a problem for me. Again I could be totally wrong but I tried it multiple times on both Debian (Wheezy) and Ubuntu (12.04 AND 14,.04) as hosts with the same results. The Wheezy and Ubuntu images were running in VM's while the (K)Ubuntu 14.04 was host OS on different hardware. All behaved as detailed in the post referenced above.
We want to release our product based on the IOTDK image. I've been holding off trying to make a custom layer work until somebody answered the post. Apparently Pablo got sidetracked. We would like to update a couple things like connman, turn on the fast_cgi module in lighttpd, add our own cgi executable, stop the ttyS1 getty after boot, start syslog etc., all in our own custom layer. Just waiting to get a good IOTDK build process that we can start with. That is why I was lurking in the OP's thread hoping for clues. Would it be more appropriate to take this discussion back to my thread?