Xdebug Remote Debugger seems to jump to random locations

Question

My problem is, that the debugger always stops at the first breakpoint I set (doesn't matter where I set it in the code) but when I continue the execution it seems to jump to a random location in the code. Doesn't make any difference here if I use "step into, "step over" or "continue". I checked if any key on the keyboard is stuck but I can't find anything here and I also cleaned the browser cache and invalidated the PhpStorm caches. After some random time it works normally again and I can step around like I want.

The other weird part is, that it always jumps to the same random location from every set breakpoint, but every breakpoint got another random location.

I am using PhpStorm (latest Version) and Xdebug 2.7 for Remote Debugging with the following configuration

php.ini:

[Xdebug]
zend_extension="C:\xampp\php\ext\php_xdebug-2.7.0alpha1-7.0-vc14.dll"
xdebug.remote_enable=true
xdebug.remote_port="9000"
xdebug.remote_connect_back=true
xdebug.remote_autostart=1
xdebug.collect_return="0"
xdebug.profiler_enable=0;

xdebug.remote_log="D:\xampp\logs\xdebug.log"

xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp
xdebug.remote_mode=req
xdebug.remote_host = 192.168.1.129

PhpStorm:

I got this problem every 2nd or 3rd day at the moment for a few hours and just can't figure out what is going on.

Is there maybe a shortcut or anything like that, that I activated without knowing it?

Answer 1

So i just had the problem again and it seems that removing the watches (as suggested here: https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360000602950-XDebug-Remote-Debugger-seems-to-jump-to-random-locations) fixes it. I will keep an eye on this and post an update if the error occures again and removing the watches doesn't fix it.