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Environment

Using VSCode Devcontainer extension to attach and debug a process running in an ubuntu 22.04 devcontainer.

GDB version is 12.1

Steps to reproduce

If I:

  • disable a breakpoint while broke, that should be hit again later
  • continue execution
  • attempt to enable the breakpoint again

The breakpoint remains greyed out and says "attempting to bind to breakpoint" indefinitely.

Expected

A means to re-enable breakpoints

Tried

The pause button has no effect nor does F6.

Tried going to the "debug console" and typing break, which results in a message: "Unable to perform this action because the process is running."

Summary

I cannot set or enable a disabled breakpoint while the code is executing and cannot pause its execution. It's become a rather large annoyance to have to start the entire process over again from the top.

Is there a mechanism/step I missed or anything I can do to re-enable a breakpoint while executing?

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  • What you are describing works for me. I have a simple program, and I can choose to enable or disable breakpoints while debugging. I am also able to add breakpoints while debugging. This is on Windows, using MSVC in VS Code via cmake. Commented Jan 6 at 15:38
  • I will also add that simply searching for "breakpoint" (Ctrl + Shift + P) shows commands for "Disable all breakpoints" and "Enable all breakpoints." They are not bound by a keyboard shorcut by default, but that is rather trivial to set yourself. Commented Jan 6 at 15:47
  • @sweenish See edited comment in post. I might have to do with the dev container extension. When I enable a breakpoint that was previously red and enabled, but I disabled, they greyed out and will not enable again. Commented Jan 6 at 15:50
  • @sweenish did a second edit to be more explicit for reproduction instructions. Commented Jan 6 at 15:52
  • I am currently unable to test a dev container setup. But it is good information to have in the question. Commented Jan 6 at 15:55
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