Losing debugging capabilities, Scenario #2.
A fellow programmer also lost her debugging capabilities some time ago though for different reasons and with different symptoms. I am not dead sure what happened in her case but it looks like some unfortunate combination of User Roles and Service Settings as defined in Management Portal. We discussed it today and she tried a few things. Changing the studio login user helped as well as changing localhost in Cache Server Manager to an actual IP address. Using Remote System Access from the cube was beneficial as well.
Alright, this particular saga suddenly came to the end revealing the bug, my own one. But it is sort of educational so some details. I am implementing source control like features on and off while inheriting one of the features from a previous programmer. The latter feature which I preserved was about adding a timestamp with the compilation time to the changed routine in the overwritten source control method, OnAfterCompile. OnAfterCompile was adding this timestamp, resaving the routine directly in one of the internal routine globals, and it did NOT recompile the file again. That effectively still had the file internally marked as saved and compiled, no little cross in the Studio's routine tab, BUT that threw the .OBJ file mapping to the routine source code enough so the debug yellow box would refuse to appear and the cursor would not move from the first line. Many self eye-rolling emojis here...
How did I discover it? I need to modify this custom source control class and it was annoying to do so while the source control was on so I turned it off, moved functionality to my test routine, and observed with incredulity the long lost yellow debug box again....
P.S. On the plus side, I learned a lot about inner Cache workings due to this largely self-inflicted wound and I am happy it is over.
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One late addition: I just lost this debugging functionality again, looks like because my code was going into a different namespace via zn "nsp". If I put the first breakpoint AFTER this zn, the cursor does not go to it and the yellow box does not appear. However, if I put my first breakpoint AT zn, the yellow box appears at it and stays with me after the breakpoint as well. Can't say it's a feature but then what??