Waiting for the XDebug Session 57% in Eclipse PDT

Question

Browsing the hints when I write this message it seems this is a tough question with all kind of patches, but no clear answer ... Anyway, I try my chance, here it is. I'm using Eclipse Helios PDT on Ubuntu 10.04, with XDebug and the corresponding section in php.ini as following:

xdebug support  enabled
Version 2.0.5

Supported protocols Revision
DBGp - Common DeBuGger Protocol $Revision: 1.125.2.6 $
GDB - GNU Debugger protocol $Revision: 1.87 $
PHP3 - PHP 3 Debugger protocol  $Revision: 1.22 $

Directive   Local Value Master Value
xdebug.auto_trace   Off Off
xdebug.collect_includes On  On
xdebug.collect_params   0   0
xdebug.collect_return   Off Off
xdebug.collect_vars Off Off
xdebug.default_enable   On  On
xdebug.dump.COOKIE  no value    no value
xdebug.dump.ENV no value    no value
xdebug.dump.FILES   no value    no value
xdebug.dump.GET no value    no value
xdebug.dump.POST    no value    no value
xdebug.dump.REQUEST no value    no value
xdebug.dump.SERVER  no value    no value
xdebug.dump.SESSION no value    no value
xdebug.dump_globals On  On
xdebug.dump_once    On  On
xdebug.dump_undefined   Off Off
xdebug.extended_info    On  On
xdebug.idekey   no value    no value
xdebug.manual_url   http://www.php.net  http://www.php.net
xdebug.max_nesting_level    100 100
xdebug.profiler_aggregate   Off Off
xdebug.profiler_append  Off Off
xdebug.profiler_enable  Off Off
xdebug.profiler_enable_trigger  Off Off
xdebug.profiler_output_dir  /tmp    /tmp
xdebug.profiler_output_name cachegrind.out.%p   cachegrind.out.%p
xdebug.remote_autostart Off Off
xdebug.remote_enable    Off Off
xdebug.remote_handler   dbgp    dbgp
xdebug.remote_host  localhost   localhost
xdebug.remote_log   no value    no value
xdebug.remote_mode  req req
xdebug.remote_port  9000    9000
xdebug.show_exception_trace Off Off
xdebug.show_local_vars  Off Off
xdebug.show_mem_delta   Off Off
xdebug.trace_format 0   0
xdebug.trace_options    0   0
xdebug.trace_output_dir /tmp    /tmp
xdebug.trace_output_name    trace.%c    trace.%c
xdebug.var_display_max_children 128 128
xdebug.var_display_max_data 512 512
xdebug.var_display_max_depth    3   3

I've been using Eclipse for PHP development without any problem so far, but never used debugging. When I launch the project in debugging mode I get the application correctly launched in the browser in the background, my by Debug/PHPDebug perspective is empty, while in the Eclipse console I have the message in the Title of this posting. Thanks for any help

Answer 1

If Eclipse is stopping at 57%, then the remote debugging process couldn't be started. This might the case, when...

• You didn't enable remote debugging in the file /PHP/php.ini:

  xdebug.remote_enable=on
  

• the remote host ip address (client which starts debug session (your IDE)) isn't correct:

  xdebug.remote_host=IP_ADDRESS
  

• Instead of defining the remote hosts ip address you can enable "multihost" remote debugging using:

  xdebug.remote_connect_back=1
  

Also checkout the xdebug documentation for all settings: http://xdebug.org/docs/all_settings