Magento 1.9 breadcrumbs always empty - magento

Question

I'm working on a magento ecommerce, I'm not the one who configured it or anything, I'm just doing his CSS, however, the site does not display the breadcrumbs.
Inside the "page / html / breadcrumbs.phtml" file I made a var_dump in the $ crumbs variable and it is always empty.
In the XML only in one situation the breadcrumbs is displayed in the frontend, when I enter the code inside the "default" tag if I put this code inside "customer_account_login" nothing will be displayed on the front.
Code of breadcrumbs.phtml:
<?php if($crumbs && is_array($crumbs)): ?>
<div class="breadcrumbs">
<ul>
<?php foreach($crumbs as $_crumbName=>$_crumbInfo): ?>
<li class="<?php echo $_crumbName ?>">
<?php if($_crumbInfo['link']): ?>
<?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_crumbInfo['label']) ?>
<?php elseif($_crumbInfo['last']): ?>
<strong><?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_crumbInfo['label']) ?></strong>
<?php else: ?>
<?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_crumbInfo['label']) ?>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php if(!$_crumbInfo['last']): ?>
<?php endif; ?>
</li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>
Here part of code of "customer.xml"
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<layout version="0.1.0">
<default>
<!-- Mage_Customer -->
<reference name="top.links">
<action method="addLink" translate="label title" module="customer"><label>My Account</label><url helper="customer/getAccountUrl"/><title>My Account</title><prepare/><urlParams/><position>10</position></action>
</reference>
<!-- HERE BREADCRUMBS DISPLAYS ON ALL PAGES THE SAME CONTENT "HOME / MY ACCOUNT" -->
<reference name="breadcrumbs">
<action method="addCrumb">
<crumbName>Home</crumbName>
<crumbInfo><label>Home</label><title>Home</title><link>/</link></crumbInfo>
</action>
<action method="addCrumb">
<crumbName>My Account</crumbName>
<crumbInfo><label>My Account</label><title>My Account</title><link>/customer/account/</link></crumbInfo>
</action>
</reference>
</default>
<!-- Load this update on every page when customer is logged in -->
<customer_logged_in>
<reference name="top.links">
<action method="addLink" translate="label title" module="customer"><label>Log Out</label><url helper="customer/getLogoutUrl"/><title>Log Out</title><prepare/><urlParams/><position>100</position></action>
</reference>
</customer_logged_in>
<!-- Load this update on every page when customer is logged out -->
<customer_logged_out>
<reference name="top.links">
<action method="addLink" translate="label title" module="customer"><label>Log In</label><url helper="customer/getLoginUrl"/><title>Log In</title><prepare/><urlParams/><position>100</position></action>
</reference>
<remove name="reorder"></remove>
</customer_logged_out>
<!-- Layout for customer login page -->
<customer_account_login translate="label">
<label>Customer Account Login Form</label>
<!-- Mage_Customer -->
<remove name="right"/>
<remove name="left"/>
<reference name="root">
<action method="setTemplate"><template>page/1column.phtml</template></action>
</reference>
<reference name="content">
<block type="customer/form_login" name="customer_form_login" template="customer/form/login.phtml" />
</reference>
</customer_account_login>
If I move the breadcrumbs code from "< default >" to the "< customer_account_login translate="label" >" for example, all screens returns the breadcrumbs as null.
I have no idea what's going on. I just wish all the screens had their breadcrumbs being displayed.

Answer 1

Check that breadcrumbs are actually enabled in the back end admin panel like below.