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

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i got a tricky one:

look At Breakpoints, they are crossed out!

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)

Had the same issue just now. Thanks! Seems like I accidentaly pressed CTRL+ALT+B at some point. — Tohnmeister, Feb 08 '16 at 15:22
Which is @#£$%! annoying, since set/clear breakpoint is `CTRL`+`Shift`+`B` ! — Mawg says reinstate Monica, Jan 13 '17 at 19:01

score 340 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 04 '14 at 14:19

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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.

edited Feb 04 '14 at 14:19

lhan

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answered Nov 03 '11 at 08:51

Michael Borgwardt

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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. – MartinL Nov 03 '11 at 10:17
I had skipped all breakpoints one day in my efforts to clear all breakpoints, I had forgotten about this! Thanks for the eye opener! – Aadi Droid Sep 26 '13 at 04:53
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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. – May 11 '17 at 15:42

score 28 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 27 '16 at 07:11

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Screenshot of the 'skip all breakpoints' in eclipse.

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

edited Oct 27 '16 at 07:11

Binary Nerd

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answered Oct 26 '16 at 09:55

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score 8 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 29 '16 at 13:26

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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.

answered Mar 29 '16 at 13:26

Psi-Ed

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Thank you sooooo much! I must have hit this by accident. The Eclipse IDEs can be different but the shortcut works great! – jade290 Sep 16 '16 at 23:52

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 16 '17 at 06:36

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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.

answered Nov 16 '17 at 06:36

Aniket Thakur

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 29 '13 at 11:10

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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.

answered Dec 29 '13 at 11:10

UMAR-MOBITSOLUTIONS

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Jan 06 '15 at 07:53

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I followed these steps below to fix this

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

answered Jan 06 '15 at 07:53

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

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