Re: Refuses to break, Useless Debugger
Re: Refuses to break, Useless Debugger
- Subject: Re: Refuses to break, Useless Debugger
- From: Frank Rimlinger <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 19:37:15 -0500
When the debugger or indeed any part of Xcode just obviously doesn't work, the first thing to do is to throw out a file that caches some user preferences in the Xcode project. I find that nine times out of ten this solves the problem. To do this, first be sure Xcode is not running. Now right click on your xxx.xcode project icon in a finder view (the blue icon with an "A" on it). Select "Show package contents". This will open up an new folder. Locate the file <user>.mode1, where <user> is your user name. Drag this file to the trash and empty the trash. Be sure *not* to drag any of the other files to the trash. If the situation does not improve, re-install Xcode from the CD or CD image. Now create a fresh version of any of the standard projects, and try running it in the debugger. If that works, migrate your old project to the good one and hope for the best. If that doesn't work, try re-installing OS X. If you use Java, re-install with the latest version from the Apple web-site. As a last resort, back up and re-initialize your hard disk. If the problem still persists, its time to start thinking about hardware diagnostics.
The moral is, Xcode 1.5 does work well most of the time, but it can go sour for no apparent reason. I find it much easier to just deal with it than to figure out what is really wrong. Throwing switches only works if you are an expert, and using the command line is a horrible work-around, IMHO.
frank
Norio Ota wrote:
I feel much stress on debugging. I have to look at the spinning cursor
all the time when I press some control buttons on the window by
mistake. However who can debug without pressing any control buttons?
Even if I turn Enable Data Formatters off, Debugger does the same
behavior.
On Nov 29, 2004, at 3:08 PM, Jonathan Jackel wrote:
My project now refuses to honor breakpoints in my document class (which I
have broken up into categories). Symbolic breakpoints work sometimes, but
not always. Normal breakpoints don't work at all in the affected files, but
everything seems normal with other files.
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