Sounds like you are missing the debugging jvm arg: -agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,address=30303,server=y,suspend=n
Take a look at the debugging instructions: https://sling.apache.org/documentation/development/getting-and-building-sling.html#debug-sling-in-eclipse-1 Happy debugging! On Fri, Jan 8, 2021, 06:22 JCR <j...@proxymit.net> wrote: > Hello > > I tried starting up Sling standalone in debug mode, by either providing > the debug-param on the command line (java -Dlaunchpad.debug=true -jar > org.apache.sling.starter-11.jar) and modifying sling.properties > respectively (by adding line launchpad.debug=true). In either case, > Eclipse is unable to connect, reporting that port 30303 is not available. > > What's missing? > > Thanks, > Juerg > >