eclipse-jdt / eclipse-jdt/eclipse.jdt.debug

Internal Error, Invalid stack frame (IllegalStateException) while debugging

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Description

Sometimes during debugging the Error log pops up with Exceptions like this. It is completely unclear to the user what went wrong, why and how to solve.

![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/487e42e4-3bf4-4acf-8295-bce5ba7fba7e)

It would be good if that message could be improved to make clear if its a programming issue within JDT or not (i hope so). At best a Hover would fail much more silently if something is just out of sync (for example only warning with appropriate message)

```
eclipse.buildId=4.35.0.I20250129-0030
java.version=22.0.2
java.vendor=Eclipse Adoptium
BootLoader constants: OS=win32, ARCH=x86_64, WS=win32, NL=de_DE
Command-line arguments: -os win32 -ws win32 -arch x86_64

This is a continuation of log file C:\Users\jkubitz\platform-2025-01-02\ws\.metadata\.bak_0.log
Created Time: 2025-01-29 07:51:01.381

org.eclipse.jdt.debug.ui
Error
Wed Jan 29 13:02:35 CET 2025
Internal Error

org.eclipse.debug.core.DebugException: Invalid stack frame
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.core.model.JDIStackFrame.getUnderlyingStackFrame(JDIStackFrame.java:1373)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.core.model.JDIStackFrame.getUnderlyingThisObject(JDIStackFrame.java:1008)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.core.model.JDIStackFrame.getVariables0(JDIStackFrame.java:366)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.core.model.JDIStackFrame.getVariables(JDIStackFrame.java:304)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.ui.JavaDebugHover.containsVariable(JavaDebugHover.java:620)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.ui.JavaDebugHover.lambda$2(JavaDebugHover.java:639)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.ui.JavaDebugHover.findFirstFrameForVariable(JavaDebugHover.java:604)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.ui.JavaDebugHover.getHoverInfo2(JavaDebugHover.java:469)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.java.hover.BestMatchHover.getHoverInfo2(BestMatchHover.java:165)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.java.hover.BestMatchHover.getHoverInfo2(BestMatchHover.java:131)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.java.hover.JavaEditorTextHoverProxy.getHoverInfo2(JavaEditorTextHoverProxy.java:89)
at org.eclipse.jface.text.TextViewerHoverManager$1.run(TextViewerHoverManager.java:155)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.core.model.JDIStackFrame.getUnderlyingStackFrame(JDIStackFrame.java:1376)
... 11 more

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