[Buildbot-devel] Step fails only under Buildbot

[Stephen Davis]

On Mar 7, 2014, at 10:08 AM, Bob Hood <bhood2 at comcast.net> wrote:

> Hi, Stephen.
> 
> On 3/7/2014 10:55 AM, Stephen Davis wrote:
>> Since signal 11 is a segementation fault, there should be a crash log stored away in the usual places (~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/).
> 
> Just checked, and there's no ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/ folder.  I also did
> a "find . -name core" in the home root, and there's no dump file.

That may be an old location.  Try ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/.  Depending on what uid was running the process, it may be in the global one instead which is at /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/.

>> If that's not good enough, you can set the DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES=/usr/lib/libgmalloc.dylib environment variable to run your test under GuardMalloc which usually can pinpoint the problem a little better if the default crash log doesn't narrow it down enough.
> 
> Hmm.. I'll give that one a try.  Thanks, Stephen.

good luck,
stephen