I got (in ITC) below presented crash report for my first Mac App Store app.
Using knowledge founded on Stackoverflow I tried to symbolicate this log, but (using atos and otool) I was only able to read last (20) line (which means start (in My App) + 52
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I really don't know how to interpret lines above, and how to find cause of crash.
Process: My App [270]
Identifier: com.mycompany.myapp
Version: 1.0.0 (1.0.0)
App Item ID: 568750000
App External ID: 11410000
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [143]
User ID: 501
Date/Time: 2012-11-07 19:21:11.365 -0200
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.8.2 (12C60)
Report Version: 10
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 1232 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 1
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: EXC_I386_GPFLT
Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00007fff877a5256 objc_msgSend + 22
1 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8dac6e27 -[NSOutlineView _delegate_isGroupRow:] + 66
2 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8da46878 -[NSTableView _isGroupRow:] + 81
3 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8da41fad -[NSTableView _isSourceListGroupRow:] + 56
4 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8da418e8 -[NSTableView rectOfRow:] + 288
5 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8da5b3cb _NSTVVisibleRowsForUpdate + 296
6 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8da5aa85 -[NSTableRowData _unsafeUpdateVisibleRowEntries] + 96
7 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8da5a8a1 -[NSTableRowData updateVisibleRowViews] + 119
8 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8da6e463 -[NSTableRowData _idleUpdateVisibleRows] + 66
9 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff87547da4 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_TIMER_CALLBACK_FUNCTION__ + 20
10 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff875478bd __CFRunLoopDoTimer + 557
11 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8752d099 __CFRunLoopRun + 1513
12 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8752c6b2 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 290
13 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff830a30a4 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 209
14 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff830a2e42 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 356
15 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff830a2cd3 BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 62
16 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8d8d8613 _DPSNextEvent + 685
17 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8d8d7ed2 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 128
18 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8d8cf283 -[NSApplication run] + 517
19 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8d873cb6 NSApplicationMain + 869
20 com.mycompany.myapp 0x000000010f29ce1c 0x10f29b000 + 7708
Reading stack frames that aren't in your code often borders on reading tea leaves, but in this case, it's pretty clear what happened.
I'm going to read your crash log to you, translating as I go along.
The stack is built up from the bottom up (just like stacks in the real world). I'll cut to the chase:
10 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff875478bd __CFRunLoopDoTimer + 557 9 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff87547da4 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_TIMER_CALLBACK_FUNCTION__ + 20
A timer fired.
8 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8da6e463 -[NSTableRowData _idleUpdateVisibleRows] + 66 7 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8da5a8a1 -[NSTableRowData updateVisibleRowViews] + 119 6 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8da5aa85 -[NSTableRowData _unsafeUpdateVisibleRowEntries] + 96 5 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8da5b3cb _NSTVVisibleRowsForUpdate + 296
In this timer (which is presumably set to fire during idle time), the table view attempts to update its knowledge of which rows are visible.
(The last frame is the one that clarifies that it's updating which rows are visible, not updating the rows that are visible. You can tell this from the wording of the function's name.)
4 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8da418e8 -[NSTableView rectOfRow:] + 288
To determine whether a row is visible, the view needs to figure out where that row is within its bounds (presumably to intersect with its visible rectangle within the scroll view).
Toward that end, the table view is attempting to figure out the characteristics of this row:
3 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8da41fad -[NSTableView _isSourceListGroupRow:] + 56
Is it a source list group row?
2 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8da46878 -[NSTableView _isGroupRow:] + 81
Is it any group row at all?
1 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8dac6e27 -[NSOutlineView _delegate_isGroupRow:] + 66
Let's ask the delegate.
0 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00007fff877a5256 objc_msgSend + 22
Attempting to send a message. This is where your process crashed.
So, the crash occurred while the outline view was trying to send a message to its delegate.
From this, we can derive three facts:
Use Instruments's Zombies template to determine which object the outline view is trying to talk to, and to look over the history of that object to find the undue or unbalanced release that killed it. You probably need to add a strong ownership of that object somewhere.