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)

Solution 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.

Solution 2

Screenshot of the 'skip all breakpoints' in eclipse.

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

Solution 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.

Solution 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.

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Comments

[Tohnmeister]

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

[Mawg says reinstate Monica]

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

[MartinL]

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.

[Aadi Droid]

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

[jade290]

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

[Admin]

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.