Breakpoints are crossed out, how can I make them valid?

Question

i got a tricky one:

I can't set valid breakpoints. Not in Tests, neither in my Java Classes. I searched Stackoverflow and google, but I couldn't find anybody with the same problem.

I'm using STS(x86) and Maven.

Edit: It may seem confusing but I solved it by myself. I have to go Run-> Skip all Breakpoints (it was set, and I wonder how it was set, because I didn't do it)

Empedocles

Had the same issue just now. Thanks! Seems like I accidentaly pressed CTRL+ALT+B at some point. – Valletta

Which is @#£$%! annoying, since set/clear breakpoint is CTRL+Shift+B ! – Ideate

Answer 1

There is a menu entry you have discovered for yourself that toggles the skipping of all breakpoints. There is also an icon for this in the "Breakpoints" View, and there may be a hot-key defined as well, all of which you may have triggered by accident.

Take a look at the Run -> Skip All Breakpoints.

Celina

I have to commit that I didn't use debugger since I switched to sts. I searched hotkeys and at skipping was no hotkey set. Like it was default setup from STS which I don't belive. What ever, I hope my post can help other users, if they got the same problem. – Empedocles

I had skipped all breakpoints one day in my efforts to clear all breakpoints, I had forgotten about this! Thanks for the eye opener! – Sanitarium

I'd say 99% of visitors here are encountering what I encounter about once per year with Eclipse. There's apparently a bug in eclipse that causes this "Skip All Breakpoints" feature to turn ON all by itself even though you didn't actually turn it on. – Belloc

Answer 2

Screenshot of the 'skip all breakpoints' in eclipse.

When you click on 'skip all breakpoints'(which is selected), everything will become normal

Chlorenchyma

Answer 3

The shortcut key for placing a breakpoint in Eclipse (Ctrl + Shift + B) is quite similar to the one that skips all the breakpoint (Ctrl + Alt + B). Hence, if a "skip all breakpoints" condition is to be cancelled, it can be achieved by pressing "Ctrl + Alt + B" again.

Rightminded

Thank you sooooo much! I must have hit this by accident. The Eclipse IDEs can be different but the shortcut works great! – Bisexual

Answer 4

You should already be in debug perspective. If not just go to debug perspective. You should see disable all breakpoints button. -

Click on it and it should allow all breakpoints.

Forfeit

Answer 5

1) Run => Skip all breakpoints. 2) Run => remove all break points.

and then your debugger wont show cross sign and will keep debugging your app.

Hardhearted

Answer 6

I followed these steps below to fix this

1. select debug only tomcat server
2. debug particular application and then prompt came whether to re enable break points and I selected yes

Silverware

Answer 7

In mine case neither ctrl+alt+B is working nor I am getting any option in run->skip all breakpoint. Do we have any alternative options for fix this breakpoint issue

Topknot

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