The unfortunate instance when an individual application or your entire mac or iOS device refuses to respond or function properly. Usually causes the app to "quit" or the interface to "freeze".
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Can someone help me read this crash report as a user?
How can I read a crash report to get an idea as to what happened?
Sample Sanitised Crash Report:
Process: SoftwareUpdateCheck [16198]
Path: /System/Library/CoreServices/Software ...
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Why is the Network Link Conditioner preference pane crashing as soon as I turn it on?
I am trying to use the Network Link Conditioner preference pane included with the Hardware IO tools in the developer tools to throttle Internet speeds. I can open and load the preference pane, but as ...
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Why does File:/// crash my app?
Whenever I type File:/// into the URL bar in Chrome, into Text Edit, and more, it crashes the app. I found out about this after reading this blog post.
How can I avoid this crash and make it ...
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Does the developer of a Mac OS X app get the crash reports when the app crashes?
If an app crashes while I'm using it in OS X I get a little (apparently) OS-driven dialog that lets me "report the crash to Apple". It sends along a stack trace and some other system information.
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CrashReporter itself keeps crashing
I never get crash logs when an application crashes, and the reason is that CrashReporter itself crashes:
4/20/12 10:11:25 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[104]
(com.apple.ReportCrash.Self[133]) Job ...
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Terminal: Application Not Responding
A few days ago, Terminal.app suddenly stopped working. Whenever I open it, the little light below the icon in the dock turns on (and stays on), but no window appears. When I right-click the icon, I'm ...
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Mountain Lion Crashing while hibernating
I had one crash yesterday and one tomorrow on my iMac running mountain lion while the computer was hibernating. In both cases the computer restarted alone.
The messa is always the same: mountain lion ...
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Why does Finder use 59GB of swap space?
My new retina MacBook Pro(with 16GB RAM) keeps receiving this "Your Mac OS X startup disk has no more space available for application memory" message. I have 300 GB of free space on my hard drive, and ...
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OS X Private Folder - Runaway file “crash recovery” 126.61GB!
Woke up this morning any my 250GB, which had approx. 50% free space last night, was totally out of disk space!
Took me all day, but finally found a file in /private/var/audit/ called ...
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iPhone Jailbreaking and Unlocking [closed]
What exactly does jailbreaking and unlocking doing to an iPhone?
I'm aware that hackers are using baseband crashes for unlocking, but how are they exploiting these crashes? Even if they inject their ...
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Safe to post iOS crash logs in public?
One of the iOS apps I use has been crashing a lot more than usual lately, so I'm posting about it on their forum. I've got a bunch of crash logs.
Is it safe to post iOS crash logs in a public place? ...
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Do iOS apps crash regularly? Is this normal?
I've been having some trouble with one of the third-party apps on my iPod Touch 4gen, and realized that a lot of apps I use (which isn't many) have been spontaneously exiting, recently. Safari and ...
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Why does my computer auto-restart after freezing (Lion 10.7.3), even when disabled?
Since recently upgrading to "Lion 10.7.3" I have had repeated instances of the machine hanging/crashing without warning and then silently restarting.
Problem is, that such automatic restarts happen ...
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Macbook randomly logging me off
Every so often, mostly during what appears to be more-intense-than-usual processing, the computer quits all apps, logs me out, and returns to the login screen. I usually get the translucent spinning ...
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Mac won't boot: Way to mount drive and delete one file?
My macbook is currently a brick. I added a /etc/launchctl.conf file that must be malformed. The OS now crashes even when attempting to start in safe mode:
"launchd System bootstrapper has crashed: ...
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What is the Sixth Step of MacBook Repair?
My Macbook has crashed once or twice daily ever since I installed Lion. I am unable to return to Snow Leopard because my Time Machine is now coupled with Lion.
I went through the sequence:
Reset ...
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Is this crash normal?
My Snow Leopard crashed while I was switching from Itunes to the browser.
Basically everything got stuck and a the current song second started to run in loop.
Is that normal ? Can it happen very ...
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MacBook Pro keeps freezing, could Google Update be the cause?
Last Dec (2012) my MacBook Pro (OS X Lion) started freezing, say 3 or 4 times a session. I ran both the Apple hardware diagnostic DVD (ran for hours, no problems),
and I ran a disk scan, no problems ...
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How can I enable SSH without using the gui or apple script on snow leopard?
A while back here How can I enable internet sharing without using the gui or apple script on snow leopard? I asked if any one knows how to enable Internet sharing without using GUI or apple script, I ...
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Is there a way to stop MS Word from automatically opening previously opened documents?
I know there's probably a setting in preferences, but I need to be able to do it without Word being open.
The problem is one of my docx has become corrupt, so every time Word opens it immediately ...
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Macbook Air (1st gen) running really slow, basic apps crash and no internet
Macbook Air was working fine yesterday. Switched it on this morning and it wouldn't boot, just hung on grey screen.
Eventually got the Air to safe boot, now Air boots normally (but very slowly). Once ...
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Why are the iPad games Epic Citadel and Gravity HD crashing on startup?
I've got 2 iPad games that crash (vanish from the screen) on startup. The games are Epic Citadel and Gravity HD. Both apps go through the loading sequence then the screen goes black and returns back ...
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Why do my applications keep crashing on Lion 10.7.3?
Once every couple of days an application crashes on my MacBook Pro with Lion (10.7.3). It's also running the newer build that's supposed to have fixed these issues (11D50b).
This has been happening ...
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Right-click causes application crash
I have a serious problem with right clicking. When ever I try to open the contextual menu in certain applications like the iWork Suite, MS Office or Evernote, I get the beach ball.
I've completely ...
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How do I troubleshoot a lockup that occurs when plugging in an external monitor?
Since installing Lion, nearly every time I plug my 13" MacBook Air into my 27" Dell display, the Mac locks up. (The mouse pointer stops moving.) I can't do anything except shut it down and reboot.
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Why does Microsoft Messenger 8.0 crash when I open a new chat window?
Microsoft Messenger For Mac 8.0 crashes sometimes when I try to open a new chat window.
Moreover there is no any error logged in Console.
My system is Mac OS X 10.6.5 at a Mac Book Pro.
Find the ...
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Finder crashes constantly
On an iMac 10,1 running Mac OS X 10.6.8, Finder crashes on every startup.
Safe Boot does not work around the problem.
When I log in normally, the Finder Crashed error messages always steal focus. ...
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New hard drive in Mac Book Pro leading to occasional crashes and kernel panics
Ok, this is kind of a long story...it starts with two swedish hitchhiker twins who knocked at my door...not really but it is a long story because I don't know what facts are relevant.
Ok, so I fall ...
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Operating System becomes unstable after prolonged use
My setup
uname -a prints:
Darwin Jutsu.local 11.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 11.2.0: Tue Aug 9 20:54:00 PDT 2011;
root:xnu-1699.24.8~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
Mac OS X Version: 10.7.3 as of this post
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How to get Safari crash report?
I have been able to reproduce a bug that makes the iOS5 browser crash and stop unexpectingly. I am unable to reproduce that bug outside of our web application so I was thinking to send a crash report ...
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Why are applications (like Adobe Fireworks and Appcelerator Titanium) crashing on startup?
Closed my computer last night, went home. Opened it and it had restarted. Now when I open a couple programs such as Adobe Fireworks or Appcelerator Titanium they throw up a nasty error like below. ...
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System Preferences crashes when trying to open time setting
My System Preferences are crashing when I try to open time setting on my mac. I have try to repair the permissions by following the help given on this thread ...
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System Crash issue after Lion update
I have recently updated my Mac Mini machine from Mac OS X 10.6.8 to Mac OS X 10.7. Since this update my system has started crashing once or twice a day.
Please find my crash report and screen ...
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Gimp keeps on crashing with SIGSEGV error
I am trying out Mac Gimp 2.8 as an alternative to Photoshop. I've been wanting to go for more OS stuff and wondered if Gimp would play nice. It seems both Photoshop and Gimp get the same error working ...
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10.6 crashes average of every 12 hours
A couple of days ago, my Snow Leopard Mac Mini started to crash an average of once every 12 or so hours. Symptoms include the display being frozen (no changes in response to any keyboard or mouse ...
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Recovering from Laptop HDD crash
My Windows 7 Laptop HDD crashed. I bought a new HDD and installed Windows on it. I also installed iTunes.
I'm patting myself on the back for setting up full backups of my laptop to an external HDD. I ...
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Why is my mid-2010 MacBook Pro experiencing a blank blue screen and crashing?
I've had this happen a couple of times so far, not sure what's happening. I think it's related to having an external monitor connected to the notebook.
My regular workflow is to have the MBP log out ...
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AppStore crashed during software update
I was using my computer normally when I got a "Updates Available" notification.
On selecting to update, the App Store opened, and I saw 3 updates available:
1) iTunes
2) Java (I have never installed ...
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eclipse RCP juno 64 bit crashes on Mac OS X
I'm trying to install eclipse RCP 64 bit version on my Mac (10.7.5).
Whenever I tried to launch eclipse, I got this crash screen.
When I tried to start eclipse using command line, I got ...
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Cached restored files and their logs after the force shutdown (crash). Where are they?
Where can I find the cached files or logs from which Mac OS X restores to its current position after the force shutdown (hard freeze problem)?
Moreover, same question with Google Chrome: from where ...
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Mac Pro suffering from kernel panics almost daily
After running flawlessly for 2 years, my 6 Gig Mac Pro has started to suffer a kernel panic about once a day. Nothing really has changed as far as I know. Two details, probably irrelevant, I installed ...
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Cisco Smart Tunnel crashes Safari. Can it be made to work on Mac OS X?
I deal with a customer who has provided me a SSL VPN address. When I log in it downloads a .jnlp file, and then some files are created in /tmp.
The meat of how it works, is it tries to run Safari ...
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Mac Book Pro crashing
I have a Mac Book Pro (late 2008, unibody design). Recently I replaced the HD with a crucial SSD and added more RAM (2x 4GB instead of 2x 2GB). I also installed Mac OSX Lion on it. It worked fine for ...
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Cisco AnyConnect causes OS X to kernel panic
My Macbook Pro 15" (Early 2011 - the one with Thunderbolt port) constantly kernel panics whenever Cisco AnyConnect establishes connection.
The panic tends to happen in the first ~30 seconds after ...
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Boot Camp Assistant crashes when partitioning drive (exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS)
I run Mountain Lion, a fresh install, brand new Macbook Pro. HD: Samsung 840 Pro 512 GB SSD.
When trying to go through Boot Camp Assistant / Setup it works fine until it wants to repartition my ...
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Facebook messages causing the Facebook app on my iPad to crash
I have an iPad mini, updated to iOS 6. I can use my Facebook app well in every department apart from messages. In both the top display and side display, when I click on the messages option the ...
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My Mac show a login screen on a spinning cube which keeps on spinning
My 2009 iMac with Lion keeps on getting stuck everytime my son's limited time ends and the computer subsequently wakes up from sleep.
How to reproduce
In other words, my son has a limited usage ...
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computer sleeps, then crashes later
For the past several weeks, this has been happening.
I put the computer to sleep at night, and when I wake the computer up the next morning, my computer has restarted itself.
There's a "Problem ...
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Preview Bug with (Mountain) Lion — hangs/crashes on repeat postscript openings
I have been able to duplicate this error on both Lion and Mountain Lion.
Open a(n) (enhanced) post-script file (either .ps or .eps) using preview.
It should convert properly to PDF and be displayed
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100% CPU Lock Up On Launching Applications On AFP Shares
When ever I try to launch an application that is located on an AFP share, the CPU load raises to max and shortly after that the system locks. Why is this? How can I prevent it?
I'm on current Lion, ...
