Comments on: Mac OS X symbols now available on crash-stats http://www.ardisson.org/afkar/2009/05/13/mac-os-x-symbols-now-available-on-crash-stats/ A journal at al-Qâhira fî Amrîkâ Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:41:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: افكار و احلام » Camino 2009 Week 19-20 http://www.ardisson.org/afkar/2009/05/13/mac-os-x-symbols-now-available-on-crash-stats/comment-page-1/#comment-6871 افكار و احلام » Camino 2009 Week 19-20 Mon, 18 May 2009 03:50:42 +0000 http://www.ardisson.org/afkar/?p=395#comment-6871 [...] allow us to generate good symbols for Core code linked into the Camino binary itself, and he also helped me write and debug a script to facilitate generating and uploading Mac OS X symbols. Stuart’s patch to allow viewing [...] [...] allow us to generate good symbols for Core code linked into the Camino binary itself, and he also helped me write and debug a script to facilitate generating and uploading Mac OS X symbols. Stuart’s patch to allow viewing [...]

]]> By: Smokey http://www.ardisson.org/afkar/2009/05/13/mac-os-x-symbols-now-available-on-crash-stats/comment-page-1/#comment-6869 Smokey Fri, 15 May 2009 03:31:47 +0000 http://www.ardisson.org/afkar/?p=395#comment-6869 While there’s not a good way to get to something like “Ooh, here’s a library I don’t have a symbol for; let’s fetch it from Redmond” (which I take it Windows can do), once you have a good list of libraries, I don’t think it would be too difficult to have something (fseventsd?) watch for the installation of a software update and then run a symbolstore.py/dump_syms-running script. Once Stuart gets finished tracking down other Breakpad integration issues we have, he plans on improving the script to get better coverage than my manual list without resorting to dumping all of the executables in <code>/System/Library/Frameworks</code>, <code>/usr/lib</code>, and various other <code>/System/Library</code> directories. All in all, it turned out to be less painful than I expected (most of the pain was self-induced, trying to write a script in a language I don’t know well). ;-) At any rate, I’m glad to help out. While there’s not a good way to get to something like “Ooh, here’s a library I don’t have a symbol for; let’s fetch it from Redmond” (which I take it Windows can do), once you have a good list of libraries, I don’t think it would be too difficult to have something (fseventsd?) watch for the installation of a software update and then run a symbolstore.py/dump_syms-running script.

Once Stuart gets finished tracking down other Breakpad integration issues we have, he plans on improving the script to get better coverage than my manual list without resorting to dumping all of the executables in /System/Library/Frameworks, /usr/lib, and various other /System/Library directories.

All in all, it turned out to be less painful than I expected (most of the pain was self-induced, trying to write a script in a language I don’t know well). ;-) At any rate, I’m glad to help out.

]]> By: Ted Mielczarek http://www.ardisson.org/afkar/2009/05/13/mac-os-x-symbols-now-available-on-crash-stats/comment-page-1/#comment-6868 Ted Mielczarek Thu, 14 May 2009 11:40:25 +0000 http://www.ardisson.org/afkar/?p=395#comment-6868 Thanks, this will make everyone's Mac crash reports better! I just wish there was a way to automate it... Thanks, this will make everyone’s Mac crash reports better! I just wish there was a way to automate it…

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