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Junior MemberThis problem may also be encountered if your source paths or source lookup doesn't match up right.For example if you are attaching to a program built on another machine, and the debugger is attempting to load all of the symbols by absolute path, your source location much match the build machines.I know is a problem that I have ran into, I have just made my paths align which is probably the hard solution. GDB will resolve this just fine, but breakpoints in eclipse will fail.I think this is most applicable when debugging with Attach to Application. There are other source lookup mechanisms you can use in the debug configuration underneath the source tab.

Check/do the following:1) Under 'Window - Preferences - Java - Compiler - Classfile Generation', all options have to be to True: (1) Add variable attributes.(2) Add line number attributes.(3) Add source file name.(4) Preserve unused (never read) local variables2) In.settings folder of your project, look for a file called org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs.Verify or set org.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler.debug.lineNumber=generate3) If error window still appears, click the checkbox to not display the error message.4) Clean and build the project. Start debugging.Normally the error window is not displayed any more and the debugging informations is displayed correctly.

I found yet another reason for this message. I was programming Scala. The solution was:. Open Run - Debug configurations. In the Main tab, on the bottom, beside the 'Apply' and 'Revert' buttons, there is a text saying which Launcher you are using, and beside it, there is a hyperlink saying 'Select other'. It is a strange UI element, doesn't look actionable at first glance. Use the 'Select other' link and choose 'Scala Application (new debugger) Launcher'.

The other one doesn't seem to work with Scala.Now the debugging should work. Notice that I have installed the Scala IDE plugin, this option may not be available if you don't have it. I had the same error message in Eclipse 3.4.1, SUN JVM1.6.007 connected to Tomcat 6.0 (running in debug-mode on a different machine, Sun JVM1.6.016, the debug connection did work correctly).Window - Preferences - Java - Compiler - Classfile Generation: 'add line number attributes to generated class file' was checked.

I did a clean, recompile. I did uncheck it, recompile, check it, recompile. I made sure the project did use the global settings. Still the same message.I switched to ant build, using Still, same message.I didn't find out what caused this message and why it wouldn't go away. Though it seemed to have something to do with the running Tomcat debug session: when disconnected, recompiling solves the issue. But on connecting the debugger to Tomcat or on setting new breakpoints during a connected debug session, it appeared again.However, it turned out the message was wrong: I was indeed able to debug and set breakpoints, both before and during debugging ( javap -l did show line numbers, too). So just ignore it:).

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I had this problem while attempting to start Tomcat in debugging mode from Eclipse. I had an ANT build file taking care of the compile and deploy.

After setting the debug flag to true (as mentioned in other answers) and redeploying the application it worked fine: NOTE: if you've just added the debug flag and recompiled you still need to redeploy your application to the server since this is where Eclipse is debugging the class files. Very obvious but easy to spend an hour or so scratching your head and wondering why it's not working (trust me). I saw this problem when I annotated a class with @ManagedBean (javax.annotation.ManagedBean). The warning message came up when running the newly complied app on JBoss EAP 6.2.0. Ignoring it and running anyway did not help - the breakpoint was never reached.I was calling that bean using EL in a JSF page.

It's possible that @ManagedBean is no good for that (I'm new to CDI). When I changed my annotation to @Model, my bean executed but the breakpoint warning also went away and I hit the breakpoint as expected.In summary it certainly looked as though the @ManagedBean annotation messed up the lines numbers, regardless of whether or not it was the wrong annotation to use. Since I have 6 different versions of Java installed, I had to change my default JDK compliance to match that of the Java version I wanted to use. Eclipse by default had compiler compliance level set to Java 1.7 when everything was built/compiled using Java 1.6.So all I did was. In eclipse menu, go to Window-Preferences-Java-Compiler.

Under JDK Compliance, I changed Compiler compliance level from 1.7 to 1.6Now Eclipse doesn't complain about the 'Unable to insert breakpoint Absent Line Number Information' anymore and the debugging breakpoints actually work!!! This is explained in detail here:Just for future reference, this is the relevant part of the answer (ignore the fact that refers to a Spring Boot application, behavior is the same for lot of other cases):Whenever you set a breakpoint in Eclipse/STS, the IDE tries to set the breakpoint in the VM if you launch an app. That is what happens in your case when you run the boot app in debug mode.For each class that gets loaded into the JVM, the IDE checks whether it needs to set a breakpoint or not. If it decides to set the breakpoint, the tries to do so (using the information from the breakpoint definition in the IDE, including its line number, since you usually set line breakpoints on a source file at a given line).This decision (whether to set the breakpoint on a given loaded class or not) checks the types that you set the breakpoint on, enclosing types, and inner classes. This makes sure that breakpoints for inner classes (even anonymous inner classes) are set to the JVM (and are not ignored).Spring Boot generates an inner class for your controller at runtime (this is the CGLIB generated inner class that appears in the error message). When the JVM loads that class, it tries to set the line number breakpoint of the enclosing type (for this inner class). Since the generated inner class doesn't have any line number information (it doesn't need to have line number information), setting the breakpoint fails for this inner class with the mentioned error message.When the IDE loads the enclosing type (your controller class itself), it also tries to set the line breakpoint and succeeds with that.

This is visualized with the check marker on the breakpoint marker.Therefore you can safely ignore the error message that shows up. To avoid this error message to show up, you can go to the preferences (Java - Debug) and disable 'Warn when unable to install breakpoint due to missing line number attributes'.