Where did the CrashReporter logs go?
Thomas McGrath III
mcgrath3 at mac.com
Thu Nov 6 07:19:21 EST 2008
Actually, after rereading your email, could the log be in one of the
user folder libraries?
HTHs
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
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> On Nov 6, 2008, at 4:43 AM, Ben Rubinstein wrote:
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>> 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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