Where did the CrashReporter logs go?

Thomas McGrath III mcgrath3 at mac.com
Thu Nov 6 06:55:01 EST 2008


Might be too obvious: Applications folder/ Utilities folder/ Console.app

Under Logs then Crash Reporter ???


HTH

Tom McGrath III
Lazy River Software
3mcgrath at comcast.net

iTunes Library Suite - libITS
Information and download can be found on this page:
http://www.lazyriversoftware.com/RevOne.html


On Nov 6, 2008, at 4:43 AM, Ben Rubinstein wrote:

> I'm currently working on a kiosk app, on Mac OS X, using revBrowser,  
> so I'm doing soak testing with a gorilla that's hammering randomly  
> on it.  Given enough gorillas and time, I can crash it.  I want to  
> find out where the crash is happening so I can tell Rev.
>
> In the days of yore, when Rev crashed, you could find all the gory  
> details in ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter.  But now when my Rev  
> standalone crashes, no log. This is a brand new machine, (intel Mac  
> mini) running Leopard.
>
> I've been running this for a week now, and at first I thought this  
> might be because I was running it under a managed user; but  
> yesterday I set it going under an admin user, and this morning it  
> was crashed, there was a malloc error in the console - but still no  
> CrashReporter log.  There's a CrashReporter folder there - with a  
> report from my gorilla app, written badly by me in, which I managed  
> to crashed before it could crash anything else - but nothing from my  
> Rev standalone.
>
> I also discovered something I'd not come across before in /Library/ 
> Logs/HangReporter - which did have a report from a few days ago of a  
> hang of my Rev standalone - but the report doesn't look very useul.
>
> Given that the Cocoa (gorilla) app produced a CrashReporter log,  
> this mechanism obviously hasn't gone altogether.  Does anyone know  
> where the crash reports for Rev-built standalones will go, or  
> whether there's something I have to do to the standalone to make  
> sure that the OS produces one?
>
> TIA,
>
> - Ben
>
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