Mystery High Sierra Crash #1

John_McKernon · July 4, 2018, 10:59pm

My app (Lightwright) has been crashing for a few customers who are running it on High Sierra. There’s no real pattern and none of them are reproducible, but they are encountering crashes daily - usually in a different place each time. The app has been cleansed of all declares anywhere near the code that is crashing (there are only maybe 3 declares in use anywhere at all now), and all of the graphics have been converted to be multiples of 4 pixels. The app is built using Xojo 2016R3.

If anyone has suggestions for what might be causing these crashes, I’d love to hear them, I don’t see anything obvious, and Xojo isn’t raising an exception in either case. Here is a portion of the crash log for the first of today’s crashes. It happened when the user clicked a canvas-based button to choose a file to be opened.

Thank you!

[code]Process: Lightwright 6 [49091]
Path: /Applications/Lightwright 6.app/Contents/MacOS/Lightwright 6
Identifier: com.mckernon.lightwright6
Version: 6.0.19 beta build 195 (6.0.19.2.195)
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: ??? [1]
Responsible: Lightwright 6 [49091]

Date/Time: 2018-07-04 14:22:42.828 -0700
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.13.5 (17F77)

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Application Specific Information:
Performing @selector(performClick:) from sender XOJButton 0x6b47060
abort() called

Thread 0 Crashed:: 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 2 libsystem_c.dylib 3 GLEngine 4 GLEngine 5 GLEngine 6 com.apple.CoreImage 7 com.apple.CoreImage 8 com.apple.CoreImage 9 com.apple.CoreImage 10 com.apple.CoreImage 11 com.apple.CoreImage 12 com.apple.CoreImage 13 com.apple.CoreImage 14 com.apple.CoreImage 15 com.apple.CoreImage 16 com.apple.CoreImage 17 com.apple.CoreImage 18 com.apple.CoreImage 19 com.apple.CoreImage 20 com.apple.coreui 21 com.apple.coreui 22 com.apple.coreui 23 com.apple.coreui 24 com.apple.coreui 25 com.apple.coreui 26 com.apple.AppKit 27 com.apple.AppKit 28 com.apple.AppKit 29 com.apple.AppKit 30 com.apple.AppKit 31 com.apple.AppKit 32 com.apple.AppKit 33 com.apple.AppKit 34 com.apple.AppKit 35 com.apple.AppKit 36 com.apple.AppKit 37 com.apple.AppKit 38 com.apple.AppKit 39 com.apple.AppKit 40 com.apple.AppKit 41 com.apple.AppKit 42 com.apple.AppKit 43 com.apple.AppKit 44 com.apple.AppKit 45 com.apple.AppKit 46 com.apple.QuartzCore 47 com.apple.QuartzCore 48 com.apple.QuartzCore 49 com.apple.QuartzCore 50 com.apple.AppKit 51 com.apple.CoreFoundation 52 com.apple.CoreFoundation 53 com.apple.CoreFoundation 54 com.apple.CoreFoundation 55 com.apple.CoreFoundation 56 com.apple.CoreFoundation 57 com.apple.HIToolbox 58 com.apple.HIToolbox 59 com.apple.HIToolbox 60 com.apple.AppKit 61 com.apple.AppKit 62 com.apple.AppKit 63 com.xojo.XojoFramework 64 com.apple.AppKit 65 com.apple.AppKit 66 com.apple.AppKit 67 com.apple.AppKit 68 com.apple.AppKit 69 com.apple.AppKit 70 com.xojo.XojoFramework 71 com.xojo.XojoFramework 72 com.xojo.XojoFramework 73 com.mckernon.lightwright6 74 com.mckernon.lightwright6 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
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0xa7579427 pthread_kill + 363
0xa730f956 abort + 133
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0x9b3f4785 gleBindTexture + 154
0x9b3f46a8 glBindTexture_Exec + 363
0x94360066 CI::GLTextureManager::attach_IOSurface(__IOSurface*, bool, int, CI::TextureDescriptor const&, int, int, int, bool) + 166
0x94365709 CI::GLContext::bind_surface(__IOSurface*, CI::TextureDescriptor const&, bool, CI::SampleMode, CI::EdgeMode, int, int) + 219
0x9420752c CI::Context::bind_sampler(CI::TextureSampler const*, CGRect const&, int, CI::KernelArgumentType) + 500
0x94364746 CI::GLContext::bind_arguments(CI::ProgramNode const*, CGRect const&) + 524
0x94363cdc CI::GLContext::render_root_node(CI::TileTask*, CI::ProgramNode*, CGRect const&, void () block_pointer) + 1254
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0x9421c338 CI::recursive_tile(CI::RenderTask*, CI::Context*, char const*, CI::Node*, CGRect const&, CI::PixelFormat, CI::swizzle_info const&, CI::TileTask* (CI::ProgramNode*, CGRect) block_pointer) + 428
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0xa0055c0e CUIRenderer::DrawImage(CGRect, long, CUIDescriptor const*) const + 132
0xa0054cec CUICoreThemeRenderer::Draw(CUIDescriptor const*, CGAffineTransform, CUIReturnInfo&) + 1450
0xa0054585 CUIRenderer::Draw(CGRect, CGContext*, __CFDictionary const*, __CFDictionary const**) + 1819
0xa0053e2f CUIDraw + 254
0x914a88b2 __44-[NSAppearance _drawInRect:context:options:]_block_invoke + 65
0x91e80ada -[NSAppearance _callCoreUIWithBlock:options:] + 1132
0x91e82089 -[NSCompositeAppearance _callCoreUIWithBlock:options:] + 158
0x914a886b -[NSAppearance _drawInRect:context:options:] + 102
0x914bf5cc -[NSCoreUIImageRep draw] + 435
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0x9165eb80 -[NSSidebarImage _drawMappingAlignmentRectToRect:withState:backgroundStyle:operation:fraction:flip:hints:] + 207
0x914d044b -[NSImageCell _drawImageWithFrame:inView:] + 211
0x914d032a -[NSImageCell drawInteriorWithFrame:inView:] + 719
0x914b7466 -[NSImageView _processedImageForView:] + 563
0x914cffb1 __31-[NSImageView _updateImageView]_block_invoke + 118
0x914b66f1 -[NSView updateLayer] + 30
0x91bf564e _NSViewUpdateLayer + 56
0x914ac8f5 -[_NSViewBackingLayer display] + 517
0x9c15caf4 CA::Layer::display_if_needed(CA::Transaction*) + 700
0x9c15c5cd CA::Layer::layout_and_display_if_needed(CA::Transaction*) + 27
0x9c15b5a2 CA::Context::commit_transaction(CA::Transaction*) + 310
0x9c15b1cb CA::Transaction::commit() + 459
0x91c51b66 __65+[CATransaction(NSCATransaction) NS_setFlushesWithDisplayRefresh]_block_invoke + 465
0x937997a6 _runLoopObserverWithBlockContext + 22
0x937994b6 CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_AN_OBSERVER_CALLBACK_FUNCTION + 22
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0x92d78d7b _BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInModeWithFilter + 71
0x9137ab2d _DPSNextEvent + 2101
0x91aece8c -[NSApplication(NSEvent) _nextEventMatchingEventMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 2859
0x91aec359 -[NSApplication(NSEvent) nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 134
0x065571e6 0x6515000 + 270822
0x91593ccd -[NSApplication _doModalLoop:peek:] + 540
0x91768c56 __35-[NSApplication runModalForWindow:]_block_invoke_2 + 165
0x91768ba2 __35-[NSApplication runModalForWindow:]_block_invoke + 79
0x91c14051 _NSTryRunModal + 119
0x915915aa -[NSApplication runModalForWindow:] + 109
0x91a5c749 -[NSSavePanel runModal] + 662
0x0661d040 0x6515000 + 1081408
0x0661ccad 0x6515000 + 1080493
0x0661c541 FolderItemDialogShowModal + 79
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0x0272dc86 VWLinkWnd.VWLinkWnd.ChooseFileBtn_Action%%o<VWLinkWnd.VWLinkWnd>o + 4068[/code]

Sam_Rowlands · July 5, 2018, 2:26am

Looking at the log; I would assume that it’s coming from Core Animation, do you have any declares or plugins that use functions starting with CA?

My second suggestion is to try a newer version of Xojo; You’re using a two year old IDE on a one year old OS. Heck using a one year old IDE (even an older version of Xcode) doesn’t play nice on the latest version of the macOS.

John_McKernon · July 5, 2018, 2:50am

Nope, no core animations. I have this one, which is used on a few critical windows:

Declare Function collectionBehavior Lib "AppKit" Selector "collectionBehavior" ( obj As Integer ) As UInteger
Declare Sub setCollectionBehavior Lib "AppKit" Selector "setCollectionBehavior:" ( obj As Integer, value As UInteger )
Const NSWindowCollectionBehaviorFullScreenAuxiliary As UInteger = 256

Dim behavior As UInteger = collectionBehavior(Self.Handle)

setCollectionBehavior(Self.handle, behavior Or NSWindowCollectionBehaviorFullScreenAuxiliary)

Maybe it’s not needed on High Sierra? It was needed beginning in El Capitan to keep certain windows from going full-screen.

I can’t use anything newer than 2016R3 because StringShapes and some other printing-related things broke beginning in 2017. Hopefully they’re on the list for fixing soon, I’m eager to get 64-bit up and running.

Greg_O_Lone · July 5, 2018, 4:15am

That crash looks like its coming from within GLEngine, does it not?

Sam_Rowlands · July 5, 2018, 5:43am

It’s still required if you DO NOT want your window to go full screen.

I can’t confirm for sure, it sure looks like the Save panel is doing some Core Animation, which then triggers an update on the sidebar, which it turns looks like it’s doing some Core Image manipulation and then on trying to draw this to the screen via an OpenGL context. If this is true, it shows that Apple isn’t using Metal 2 themselves for Core Image (at the moment the developer has to hard code to use OpenGL or Metal as a Core Image rendered. Metal 2 is so much faster than OpenGL (probably because Apple are still using an OpenGL version from 2010).

That’s my 2¢ on the report anyway. If there’s nothing directly manipulating Core Animation, Core Image or OpenGL, then this is most likely either an incompatibility between Xojo 2016 and High Sierra, or in my opinion it’s a borked install of High Sierra.

High Sierra has been a nightmare for advanced Core Image applications and I can’t wait for that POS OS version to disappear.

ChristopheDV · July 5, 2018, 7:27am

I had this too with one of my projects. It crashed literally at random.
It was fixed by compiling it with a newer Xojo version.

Emile_Schwarz · July 5, 2018, 10:30am

What about running in the IDE ?

I ask because I still use 2015r1, but when I fall into troubles, I load my project into the lastest version and run in the IDE (Xojo 2018r1.1 as of today).

John_McKernon · July 5, 2018, 12:51pm

[quote=394789:@Christoph De Vocht]I had this too with one of my projects. It crashed literally at random.
It was fixed by compiling it with a newer Xojo version.[/quote]

Which version worked for you?

ChristopheDV · July 5, 2018, 1:17pm

In that case it was 2017R2

John_McKernon · July 5, 2018, 1:46pm

Unfortunately 2017 is the year that printing troubles started, which is why I’m stuck in 2016R3. Bummer…

Beatrix_Willius · July 5, 2018, 2:35pm

You mentioned troubles with printing. Could you elaborate? Nowadays I don’t think that using an older version of Xojo is a good idea.

John_McKernon · July 6, 2018, 12:33am

I’d been using DrawRotatedTextMBS to print vertical text, but it stopped working because it needs HDC and Xojo’s printing is now based on DirectDraw. Rotated StringShapes print all over the place, not where you expect them - each different rotation amount changes the rotation center, with no obvious pattern.

And if you use a Printer Setup Dialog on Windows, the graphics instance you get to print in isn’t the whole page, it’s the area contained within the margins set in the dialog, there’s no way to print wherever you need to on the page - for instance, when printing a page of labels. On the Mac, you always get the entire printable area on the page.

So I’m stuck in 2016r3 until something changes - hopefully sooner rather than later. And no, using a version of Xojo that old isn’t good. I’m using 2018 only for non-printing projects.