enabling crash logs (was Re: Xcode Tools Readme)
enabling crash logs (was Re: Xcode Tools Readme)
- Subject: enabling crash logs (was Re: Xcode Tools Readme)
- From: Dave Payne <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 23:14:34 -0800
Hi Justin!
With Panther (10.3.x) crash logs should always get written to
~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter or /Library/Logs/CrashReporter and you can
view those with Console, as described in Console's Help.
In addition, there are some defaults you can write to control when the
crash submission dialog appears. Personally, I find having that crash
submission dialog come up is the fastest way for me to see a crash log.
(In the future, a mechanism may be added to give GUI preferences for
this again.)
By default, the crash submission dialog only comes up for GUI apps
you're running in the desktop environment. To get the crash submission
dialog for all programs, you can set this default:
% defaults write com.apple.CrashReporter DialogType crashreport
Use this to set it back to just showing the crash dialog for GUI apps:
% defaults write com.apple.CrashReporter DialogType
And lastly, you can turn the dialog off for ALL crashes:
% defaults write com.apple.CrashReporter DialogType none
In all cases, a crash log is still going to be written to its standard
place.
You may also notice that the crash log format in 10.3.2 has been
changed to give more info about what libraries, bundles, etc were
loaded into the crashed app.
Note that it is always best to file Radar reports about crashes (with
full details about how to reproduce the problem) as well as submitting
them via crash submitter.
- Dave
On Dec 19, 2003, at 4:22 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
Justin,
Behavior and design of the Console application has changed; I didn't
refresh that part of the Read Me note. Please launch Console and review
the information provided in the Help for how to see logs, etc.
On Dec 19, 2003, at 3:04 PM, Justin Walker wrote:
A query: in the README for the Xcode Tools 1.1 CD/Download, it
describes how to generate a crash log:
"Launch Console, got to Preferences and mark the checkboxes under
the
Crash Tab"
When I do this, I see no Crash Tab, only two checkboxes and a slider,
governing behavior when a log is updated.
What am I missing?
This is on 10.3.2.
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