IntelliJ IDEA: Breakpoint not being hit, and is shown without the tick, just a red dot

Question

First of all, the most similar question that I found is this Intellij IDEA: Breakpoint not being hit, and is shown greyed out but that is not the exact same case.

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Answer 1

The same happened with me on Mac machine. I followed these steps and all worked fine:

1. Stop server.
2. Close all intellij projects.
3. Open only the specific intellij project on which my application needs to run.
4. Start the server in debug mode.