Topic: Mac OS X 0.3.23 SIGSEGV crashes (Read 1375 times)
The Mac client is simply not useable right now. I haven't been able to send any transactions from it at all. When I try to send bitcoins the client stops responding but Activity Monitor shows it using 100% CPU. Sigh.
yeah, I don't know what's up with the Mac client but it really doesn't work well (especially if you've got FileVault turned on)
it just slows down your computer to a crawl
it just slows down your computer to a crawl
I'm getting frequent crashes from the 0.3.23 Mac OS X build.. when 0.3.21 had no problems.
Installed from the 'bitcoin-0.3.23-macosx.zip' file linked from bitcoin.org and available from Sourceforge:
The internal 'about' dialog self-identifies as 'version 0.3.23-beta'.
No user action is associated with the crashes.. I come back to the computer and the app has died with a MacOS crash dialog. Some excerpts from that dialog for the most recent crash:
Memory access crashes in security-sensitive C code make me nervous.
Installed from the 'bitcoin-0.3.23-macosx.zip' file linked from bitcoin.org and available from Sourceforge:
Code:
$ shasum bitcoin-0.3.23-macosx.zip
42e8a86a97edcafb12d09fa69b56ad0451baa140 bitcoin-0.3.23-macosx.zip
42e8a86a97edcafb12d09fa69b56ad0451baa140 bitcoin-0.3.23-macosx.zip
The internal 'about' dialog self-identifies as 'version 0.3.23-beta'.
No user action is associated with the crashes.. I come back to the computer and the app has died with a MacOS crash dialog. Some excerpts from that dialog for the most recent crash:
Code:
Process: bitcoin [76686]
Path: /Applications/Bitcoin.app/Contents/MacOS/bitcoin
Identifier: org.bitcoin.bitcoin
Version: 0.3.23 (323)
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [119]
Date/Time: 2011-06-24 08:11:52.881 -0700
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.7 (10J869)
Report Version: 6
...
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000040
Crashed Thread: 6
...
Thread 6 Crashed:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff8829a120 strlen + 16
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff882a5b1c __vfprintf + 8144
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff882a3cab __vfprintf + 351
3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff882f2154 vfprintf + 92
4 org.bitcoin.bitcoin 0x0000000100009432 OutputDebugStringF(char const*, ...) + 642
5 org.bitcoin.bitcoin 0x0000000100036b53 CDB::~CDB() + 22263
6 org.bitcoin.bitcoin 0x0000000100036fe1 CDB::~CDB() + 23429
7 org.bitcoin.bitcoin 0x00000001000373c3 CDB::~CDB() + 24423
8 org.bitcoin.bitcoin 0x000000010003875f CDB::~CDB() + 29443
9 org.bitcoin.bitcoin 0x00000001000346c6 CDB::~CDB() + 12906
10 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff882d04f6 _pthread_start + 331
11 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff882d03a9 thread_start + 13
Path: /Applications/Bitcoin.app/Contents/MacOS/bitcoin
Identifier: org.bitcoin.bitcoin
Version: 0.3.23 (323)
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [119]
Date/Time: 2011-06-24 08:11:52.881 -0700
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.7 (10J869)
Report Version: 6
...
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000040
Crashed Thread: 6
...
Thread 6 Crashed:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff8829a120 strlen + 16
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff882a5b1c __vfprintf + 8144
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff882a3cab __vfprintf + 351
3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff882f2154 vfprintf + 92
4 org.bitcoin.bitcoin 0x0000000100009432 OutputDebugStringF(char const*, ...) + 642
5 org.bitcoin.bitcoin 0x0000000100036b53 CDB::~CDB() + 22263
6 org.bitcoin.bitcoin 0x0000000100036fe1 CDB::~CDB() + 23429
7 org.bitcoin.bitcoin 0x00000001000373c3 CDB::~CDB() + 24423
8 org.bitcoin.bitcoin 0x000000010003875f CDB::~CDB() + 29443
9 org.bitcoin.bitcoin 0x00000001000346c6 CDB::~CDB() + 12906
10 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff882d04f6 _pthread_start + 331
11 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff882d03a9 thread_start + 13
Memory access crashes in security-sensitive C code make me nervous.
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