I have a multithreaded Cocoa+OpenGL app that can reliably bring down OSX. I am using the latest released/patched version of OSX, all updates have been downloaded and applied.
The application has a thread that displays video frames as OpenGL textures. When I resize the associated window, it crashes OSX in various ways. Sometimes OSX just hangs. Sometimes the whole screen goes black. Sometimes I get psychedelic colors displayed outside my application, for instance when I click the OSX dropdown menu at the top left corner of the screen, it displays with blasts of colors splayed across the screen. When OSX doesn't completely die and I try to remotely log in and kill my process with a -9 signal, OSX refuses to kill it. I've tried using Quartz Debug, that brings down OSX particularly hard. When OSX doesn't hang, the graphics device driver state seems to get corrupted, even when my application has finished running, I get the weird psychedelic colors in OSX menus and programs. Now, I'm sure I've got a bug in my program--but nothing I'm doing should make OSX behave this way. Fundamentally this is an OSX bug. In any case it's difficult to find the bug when OSX comes crashing down. Any tips? Shayne Wissler _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
