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Re: Crash Reporter Decypher



There's nothing wrong with your RAM, aside from what this particular bit of code was trying to do with it.

The first part of the report is giving you some basic info, including the name of the process that crashed. It also tells you which thread the problem was in. EXC_BAD_ACCESS just means the program was trying to do something it shouldn't, like read memory it isn't allowed to.

If you look at the part that says "Thread 4" it is telling you what that thread was doing at the time. It's called a backtrace, the last thing to execute is at the top and followed by all the nested functions it took to get there. Then there is a bunch of low-level CPU entrails, and more stuff about the exact code. I think all the bit at the end has to do with libraries the binary was linked with, but I'm guessing.

This stuff is most useful to the programmers who wrote the application, but hardly at all to others (which is a large set that includes most system administrators.)

If it keeps happening, then you've got a problem with servermgrd to investigate. Actual bad RAM problems rarely crash things in such a friendly and helpful fashion that the operating system has an opportunity to output this handy report.

Here's some more on CrashReporter output:

http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2004/tn2123.html

Andrea

On 5 Jun 2007, at 10:53, Jason Pruim wrote:

Host Name:      qsraosetcom
Date/Time:      2007-06-05 13:33:52.271 -0400
OS Version:     10.4.9 (Build 8P135)
Report Version: 4

Command: servermgrd
Path:    /usr/sbin/servermgrd
Parent:  launchd [1]

Version: ??? (???)

PID:    2086
Thread: 4

Exception:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes:      KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0xbf220004




Thread 4 Crashed:
0 libobjc.A.dylib 0x90a410f8 objc_msgSend + 24
1 ...e.ServerAdmin.servermgr_dns 0x0020bde8 write_settings + 11076
2 ...e.ServerAdmin.servermgr_dns 0x00213b94 write_settings + 43248
3 libservermgrcommon.dylib 0x962a2ea0 - [ConfigurationParser initWithFile:typesFile:defaultsFile:populateDefaults:] + 172
4 ...e.ServerAdmin.servermgr_dns 0x00213998 write_settings + 42740
5 ...e.ServerAdmin.servermgr_dns 0x00213628 write_settings + 41860
6 ...e.ServerAdmin.servermgr_dns 0x002089d4 get_log_paths + 60
7 ...e.ServerAdmin.servermgr_dns 0x00207480 get_service_state + 1304
8 ...e.ServerAdmin.servermgr_dns 0x002066b4 doProcessInput + 196
9 servermgrd 0x000064b4 0x1000 + 21684
10 servermgrd 0x00008c30 0x1000 + 31792
11 servermgrd 0x00008250 0x1000 + 29264
12 servermgrd 0x00007ac4 0x1000 + 27332
13 com.apple.Foundation 0x92be11a0 forkThreadForFunction + 108
14 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9002be08 _pthread_body + 96


Thread 4 crashed with PPC Thread State 64:

[etc...]





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