eclipse xdebug session never completes

Question

I am trying to get xdebug working with eclipse (3.5) / php (on xampp windows 7). I have verified xdebug is enabled in php - I have the fancy output and my phpinfo shows all the xdebug stuff. I have remote debug on, and typed in the lan ip address on my eclipse machine.

When I tell eclipse to debug, it launches the browser and passes the debug URL parameters. That looks OK.

However, in eclipse debug perspective it shows 'launching myproject' 57% 'waiting for xdebug session'. It sits there forever.

I have turned off windows firewall on both machines.

I tried turning implicit flush on.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Same problem here. Did you resolve it?

Answer 2

I realized that TCP port was in use and that was the reason why it was hanging. I changed port in php.ini and eclipse settings.

Answer 3

Yeah, check network/port stats. In my case I'm using vmware fusion on mac, and the process vmware-natd was hogging the cpu (blocking on an open port I'm assuming), which I didn't notice. php.ini was completely fine, had to run this to get it to work again:

sudo "/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/boot.sh" --restart

So ppl check your php.ini (or xdebug.ini) file first. If it looks ok ala this discussion, then check that you're not having networking issues.

Answer 4

I had this problem too... I was missing this line:

xdebug.remote_enable = On

in the php.ini file.

Answer 5

I don't know this means to you anymore or not! But, did you hit to a PHP file (anything.php) with right debug parameter, something like XDEBUG_SESSION_START=ECLIPSE_DBGP&KEY=12882809194391.

People often make mistakes to hit a HTML file with the debug parameters which causes Eclipse to hang at xdebug session