Defold Debugger Freezing

Questions
#1

Hi guys.

I have been trying to run the defold debugger for a while now. So when I Run the Debugger (F5) on my Windows machine - the Debugger gets frozen and the debugger windows shows (Not Responding). Nothing happends. The Game never loads at all. I have tried whitelisting the app with Antivirus etc with no results.

Even Debug > Open Web Profiler just loads forever without showing a thing. What may be causing this?

#2

@britzl @AGulev any guidance on what I can do to get this working perhaps?

#3

I’m not sure what’s causing this. It seems like you’re prevented from connecting to the running game for some reason.

  • Does this happen for all projects?
  • What if you run the Defold editor as Administrator?
  • What happens if you open a webpage to your-local-ip:8002 while the game is running?
  • What if you do wget your-local-ip:8002 or use curl from a command prompt?
#4
  • Does this happen for all projects?

Apparently, yes.

  • What if you run the Defold editor as Administrator?

Also tried that, it didn’t work.

  • What happens if you open a webpage to your-local-ip:8002 while the game is running?

Still freezes. Takes forever to load

  • What if you do wget your-local-ip:8002 or use curl from a command prompt?

Hangs and does not respond

#5

What platform is this?
And to be clear, it works fine if you don’t launch with the debugger?

#6

Surely it prints something to the command prompt? In my attempt I have:

wget 192.168.0.114:8002  
--2022-03-08 13:17:26--  http://192.168.0.114:8002/
Connecting to 192.168.0.114:8002... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://192.168.0.114:59797/ [following]
--2022-03-08 13:17:26--  http://192.168.0.114:59797/
Connecting to 192.168.0.114:59797... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]

In your case I’d expect it to at least print Connecting to 192.168.0.114:8002...

#7

Actually it prints nothing. It just hangs.

So its like its being firewalled or something - or that port is blocked. That sort of situation.

#8

Annoying. I’m not a Windows expert so I’ve run out of ideas.

#9

@britzl @Mathias_Westerdahl it turns out the cache may have been messed up. I tried cleaning my PC cache and for some reason now stuff works well.

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#10

Old thread, but I had the same issue and it was because I had ZeroBrane studio open while porting my game over to Defold. So, closing ZeroBrane released the resource and allowed Defold to use mobdebug.

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