diff --git a/lldb/source/Plugins/Process/gdb-remote/GDBRemoteCommunicationClient.cpp b/lldb/source/Plugins/Process/gdb-remote/GDBRemoteCommunicationClient.cpp
--- a/lldb/source/Plugins/Process/gdb-remote/GDBRemoteCommunicationClient.cpp
+++ b/lldb/source/Plugins/Process/gdb-remote/GDBRemoteCommunicationClient.cpp
@@ -2590,6 +2590,9 @@
 
   if (SendPacketAndWaitForResponse(stream.GetString(), response) ==
       PacketResult::Success) {
+    if (response.IsErrorResponse())
+      return false;
+
     llvm::StringRef name;
     llvm::StringRef value;
     while (response.GetNameColonValue(name, value)) {
diff --git a/lldb/test/API/commands/platform/launchgdbserver/Makefile b/lldb/test/API/commands/platform/launchgdbserver/Makefile
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lldb/test/API/commands/platform/launchgdbserver/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+C_SOURCES := main.c
+
+include Makefile.rules
diff --git a/lldb/test/API/commands/platform/launchgdbserver/TestPlatformLaunchGDBServer.py b/lldb/test/API/commands/platform/launchgdbserver/TestPlatformLaunchGDBServer.py
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lldb/test/API/commands/platform/launchgdbserver/TestPlatformLaunchGDBServer.py
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+""" Check that errors while handling qLaunchGDBServer are reported to the user.
+    Though this isn't a platform command in itself, the best way to test it is
+    from Python because we can juggle multiple processes more easily.
+"""
+
+import os
+import socket
+import shutil
+import lldbgdbserverutils
+from lldbsuite.test.decorators import *
+from lldbsuite.test.lldbtest import *
+from lldbsuite.test import lldbutil
+
+
+class TestPlatformProcessLaunchGDBServer(TestBase):
+    NO_DEBUG_INFO_TESTCASE = True
+
+    @skipIfRemote
+    # Windows doesn't use lldb-server and on Darwin we may be using debugserver.
+    @skipUnlessPlatform(["linux"])
+    @add_test_categories(["lldb-server"])
+    def test_platform_process_launch_gdb_server(self):
+        self.build()
+
+        hostname = socket.getaddrinfo("localhost", 0, proto=socket.IPPROTO_TCP)[0][4][0]
+        listen_url = "[%s]:0" % hostname
+
+        port_file = self.getBuildArtifact("port")
+        commandline_args = [
+            "platform",
+            "--listen",
+            listen_url,
+            "--socket-file",
+            port_file,
+            "--",
+            self.getBuildArtifact("a.out"),
+            "foo",
+        ]
+
+        # Run lldb-server from a new location.
+        new_lldb_server = self.getBuildArtifact("lldb-server")
+        shutil.copy(lldbgdbserverutils.get_lldb_server_exe(), new_lldb_server)
+
+        self.spawnSubprocess(new_lldb_server, commandline_args)
+        socket_id = lldbutil.wait_for_file_on_target(self, port_file)
+
+        # Remove our new lldb-server so that when it tries to invoke itself as a
+        # gdbserver, it fails.
+        os.remove(new_lldb_server)
+
+        new_platform = lldb.SBPlatform("remote-" + self.getPlatform())
+        self.dbg.SetSelectedPlatform(new_platform)
+
+        connect_url = "connect://[%s]:%s" % (hostname, socket_id)
+        self.runCmd("platform connect %s" % connect_url)
+
+        self.runCmd("target create {}".format(self.getBuildArtifact("a.out")))
+        self.expect("run", substrs=["unable to launch a GDB server on"], error=True)
diff --git a/lldb/test/API/commands/platform/launchgdbserver/main.c b/lldb/test/API/commands/platform/launchgdbserver/main.c
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lldb/test/API/commands/platform/launchgdbserver/main.c
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+int main() { return 0; }