On 4 Sep 2009, at 12:04 am, Greg Parker wrote:
On Sep 3, 2009, at 3:41 PM, Mark Allan wrote:
I've been battling with this intermittent crash for about two weeks
now and can't figure it out for the life of me. I've got try/catch
blocks around nearly all my code, and definitely around any code
which runs in a separate thread, but it's not catching whatever
causes this crash. Also, I'm not even convinced it's my threads
causing the crash as this one happened while a modal sheet was
being displayed, before any of my external threads got started.
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000001, 0x0000000090d5c02c
Crashed Thread: 6
Thread 6 Crashed:
0 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x90d5c02c CFRunLoopWakeUp + 156
1 com.apple.Foundation 0x903ad0e4 _backgroundActivity +
440
EXC_BREAKPOINT means the process deliberately killed itself
(including `int3` on i386, `trap` on ppc, `__builtin_trap()` in
gcc). In the case of CFRunLoopWakeUp(), it's halting because it
tried and failed to send a Mach message to that run loop. Most
likely this means the target run loop has already been deleted, but
other Mach messaging problems are possible.
_backgroundActivity is part of NSFileHandle, to perform things like -
readInBackgroundAndNotify. Perhaps there's bad memory management of
an NSFileHandle somewhere.
Thank you so much for your answer.
It turns out one of my threads was running after all and I think what
was happening was that the NSTask started by my second thread was
completing so quickly that the thread (and hence the run loop) was
disappearing before some notification was being sent/received. I was
under the impression that the waitUntilExit method was supposed to
prevent this from happening, but it doesn't appear to be doing so
reliably. Anyway, I've now moved all my -release calls into the
object's dealloc method, removed the -waitUntilExit call and the
NSTask is now being started from the main run loop. Hopefully that
covers all the bases.
Because it's an intermittent bug, it'll be a while before I can be
sure I've managed to squash it once and for all, but initial reports
look good :)
Thanks again
Mark
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