Urban Apps

Fixing symbolicatecrash…

Because you found your way here, I am assuming you already know what symbolicatecrash is and when/why you would use it. If not, take a detour < href=”http://furbo.org/2008/08/08/symbolicatifination/”>here and come back. This tool has been great but is very temperamental. It worked for a while when I first started, then it broke and stopped giving results. I applied the Alan Quatermain Fix, but things still weren’t right.

Well, tonight I had a client app rejected from crash I couldn’t reproduce. I only had 1 crash log from Apple, and the stupid symbolicatecrash script wasn’t finding anything! I had to dig in and see what was up. After spending a little bit brushing up my Perl, I was able to fix the problem. Basically, the Regex that the script uses was failing to match in two places: the bundle name, and the versions.

Change lines 372-377 in the symbolicatecrash script to look like this:

^\s* (\w+) \s* \- \s* (\w+) \s*    (?# the range [1,2])

(\+)?                              (?# the application may have a + in front of the name [3])

([^\s]+)                           (?# bundle name [4])

\s* \w+ \s*                        (?# the versions--generally "??? [???]")

\?                                 (?# possible UUID [5])

\s* (\/.*)\s*$                     (?# first fwdslash to end we hope is path [6])

There are 2 changes from the pre-Alan-Quartermain-Fix:
On line 374, I changed the (.+) to be ([^\s]+) just like the AQ fix.
On line 375, I changed the \s+ .+ \(.+\) \s* to be \s+ \w+ \s* because my crash reports never have versions in parenthesis.

I don’t know if this will work for everybody, but it works for me and the crash reports I get back from iPods and iPhones. Good luck!

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