Variables not showing while debugging in Eclipse

I ended up trying something easy by resetting the Debug perspective, which seemed to work:

Window => Perspective => Reset Perspective...

Thanks for the comments.

Resetting the perspective wasn't quite enough for me, I had to first delete the "Variables" tab and then reset the perspective (which reinstated the Variables tab in a working state). One other thing not mentioned above which might help others - when the variables tab is not working, the tab title is in italics (whatever that signifies). When it's working it goes back to normal font.

Window --> Show View --> Variables

My problem was that I couldn't see variables names, but just the value. After trying quite a while I got the solution: Click on the down arrow (in degub Variables tab) --> Layout --> show columns

It did the trick!