I'm using SqlDeveloper 1.2.1.32.13 (latest non-beta), on Ubuntu 7.10.
When I try to debug a function or procedure by first compiling for debug, and then pressing the beetle icon in the editor pane, I get the following message in the debugging log window:
The target TESTPROC could not be started because the local host machine does not have an IP address.
Naturally the machine has an IP address, since I am connected to the DB server.
The problem is the same whether I connect to Oracle v9 or v10 servers.
Checking the box didn't solve the problem in itself, but I found out that the JRE threw an java.net.UnknownHostException because it couldn't resolve my hostname to an IP, so I
entered "hostname 127.0.0.1" in /etc/hosts - and that did the trick.