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IDProjectCategoryView StatusDate SubmittedLast Update
0003081FreeCADFeaturepublic2017-06-13 10:282021-02-06 06:49
Reporterberka Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilitysometimes
Status confirmedResolutionopen 
PlatformIntelOSMacOSOS Version10.12.5
Product Version0.17 
Target Version0.20 
Summary0003081: MacOS application crashes should generate Diagnostic Reports
DescriptionI'm testing 0.17 nightlies (primarily to use Path Workbench).
I found 0.17 crashes often enough to be annoying. However, unlike other MacOS apps I'm accustomed to, this application doesn't pop up with a backtrace and other diagnostic report information. I've spent a long time fishing through log files with no result.
This is de ja vu for me (bug 0002521). I will now start systematically running under lldb.

However, I think it would be helpful if an unexpected crash generated some diagnostic information. Please identify and implement what you need to do to enable such diagnostic gathering.

I looked, but couldn't find how to enable the MacOS facility that generates these reports. Some things that show up in web search:
ReportCrash utility (e.g. "man ReportCrash")
CrashReporter https://developer.apple.com/library/content/technotes/tn2004/tn2123.html <- This describes what I'm accustomed to seeing as an app user.

I find the crash reports I expect from other applications at: ~/Libary/Logs/DiagnosticReports
Additional InformationOS: Mac OS X
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.17.11232 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: (detached from 5f54fc0)
Hash: 5f54fc0298cea749c53fa3c1a6be71f1f1e1476f
Python version: 2.7.13
Qt version: 5.6.2
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.1.0
Tags#post-to-forum, crash, distribution specific, macOS, packaging
FreeCAD Information

Relationships

related to 0002731 new Project Tools & Websites Add exception stacktrace upload function (AKA crash reporting) 
related to 0003765 closed FreeCAD 0.18, 0.17 crashes (kernel panic) MacOs Mojave with reference to Intel driver 

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berka

2017-06-13 10:42

reporter   ~0009353

This may be related to why crash reports aren't displayed/logged for FreeCAD. I had found this in my syslog:
com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.xpc.launchd.oneshot.0x10000016.FreeCAD[4320]): Service exited with abnormal code: 1
Thinking back, it hints that FreeCaD may be running as a background app. Crash reports (by default) are not generated for background apps.

Kunda1

2017-06-13 21:44

administrator   ~0009357

@blacey care to comment?

Kunda1

2017-06-13 21:47

administrator   ~0009358

In the same vein as 0002731

Kunda1

2017-06-29 13:12

administrator   ~0009607

@peterl94 mind taking a look?

peterl94

2017-07-01 22:21

developer   ~0009644

It seems to depend on how the app crashed. The following two examples both crash freecad ( builds from github), but only the first shows the mentioned diagnostic report.

part1 = App.ActiveDocument.addObject("App::Part", "Part1")
part1.Group = [part1]


import Part
circle = Part.makeCircle(10)
result = Part.makeFilledFace([circle])

yorik

2022-03-03 13:55

administrator   ~0016546

This ticket has been migrated to GitHub as issue 5711.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2017-06-13 10:28 berka New Issue
2017-06-13 10:28 berka Tag Attached: MacOSX
2017-06-13 10:42 berka Note Added: 0009353
2017-06-13 21:43 Kunda1 Assigned To => Kunda1
2017-06-13 21:43 Kunda1 Status new => assigned
2017-06-13 21:44 Kunda1 Assigned To Kunda1 =>
2017-06-13 21:44 Kunda1 Priority high => normal
2017-06-13 21:44 Kunda1 Status assigned => new
2017-06-13 21:44 Kunda1 Description Updated
2017-06-13 21:44 Kunda1 Note Added: 0009357
2017-06-13 21:46 Kunda1 Relationship added related to 0002731
2017-06-13 21:47 Kunda1 Note Added: 0009358
2017-06-29 13:12 Kunda1 Note Added: 0009607
2017-06-29 13:19 Kunda1 Tag Attached: crash
2017-06-29 13:19 Kunda1 Tag Attached: distribution specific
2017-06-29 13:19 Kunda1 Tag Attached: packaging
2017-06-29 13:21 Kunda1 Tag Attached: #post-to-forum
2017-07-01 22:21 peterl94 Note Added: 0009644
2018-11-19 10:56 Kunda1 Target Version => 0.18
2018-11-19 10:56 Kunda1 Status new => confirmed
2019-01-18 13:55 wmayer Target Version 0.18 => 0.19
2020-11-13 14:08 Kunda1 Tag Renamed MacOSX => macOS
2020-12-03 20:35 Kunda1 Relationship added related to 0003765
2021-02-06 06:49 abdullah Target Version => 0.20