How to symbolicate crash report from Apple received in .txt format not .crash format

When you get your crash report as a .txt file just follow these steps : Change the file extension .txt to .crash (eg mycrash.txt to mycrash.crash). Create a new folder in desktop and copy the mycrash.crash file to the newly created folder. Copy the .dSYM file: update: download all DSYMs from appstoreconnect activity- they are … Read more

Java VM: reproducible SIGSEGV on both 1.6.0_17 and 1.6.0_18, how to report?

I got similar problem upgrading to JDK 1.6_18 and it seems solved using the following options: -server -Xms256m -Xmx748m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m -verbose:gc -XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps -Xloggc:/tmp/gc.log -XX:+PrintHeapAtGC -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:HeapDumpPath=”/tmp” -XX:+UseParallelGC -XX:-UseGCOverheadLimit # Following options just to remote monitoring with jconsole, useful to see JVM behaviour at runtime -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=12345 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false -Djava.rmi.server.hostname=MyHost I still didn’t double check … Read more

How to debug w3wp clr.dll error

It looks like you have a StackOverflow Exception, which is caused by unbounded recursion (a function repeatedly calling itself, etc). This can’t be caught by regular try/catch block. You can track the problem down using DebugDiag and WinDbg. DebugDiag can be configured to generate a crash dump when the StackOverflowException occurs. Download at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=58210. Open … Read more

Windows does not produce full crash dumps even though registry is set correctly

Permissions of the folder to write to Looking at the permissions of the folder C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER it has Read & execute List folder contents Read Creating a subfolder LocalDumps will inherit the permissions. So you should either modify the permissions of that folder or use a different folder with write permissions. Permissions of the Registry key … Read more

How do I disable the ‘Debug / Close Application’ dialog on Windows Vista?

To force Windows Error Reporting (WER) to take a crash dump and close the app, instead of prompting you to debug the program, you can set these registry entries: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting] “ForceQueue”=dword:00000001 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\Consent] “DefaultConsent”=dword:00000001 After this is set, when your apps crash, you should see *.hdmp and … Read more