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mmoossen
mmoossen

Reputation: 1277

IntelliJ can not debug

i get following error when (locally) trying to debug by junit test in IntelliJ 2018.2.4:

Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.
Unrecognized option: -XXdebug

i think there is a configuration error, it should actually be -Xdebug instead of -XXdebug, but i can not find it anywhere in the settings.

a grep in the .idea or .intellij folders did not find any such a setting either.

any help greatly appreciated.

many thanks

Michael

Upvotes: 1

Views: 483

Answers (1)

yole
yole

Reputation: 97308

In your idea.properties (which is normally located in the IDEA installation directory), there's a property named idea.debug.key, with the value set to -XXdebug. Change it to -Xdebug and everything should work.

Upvotes: 2

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