An instance when a particular application or your entire Mac or iOS device refuses to respond and/or function properly. Usually causes the app to "quit" or the interface to "freeze".
Questions tagged [crash]
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How to make Google Chrome Helper not use as much CPU
I've found solutions for this problem but they dont seem applicable now in 2017.
For some reason, Google Chrome Helper is using a lot of my CPU and fans are going full blast. I found this link on Apple's site that seems to help everyone but I can't…
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Catalina crashing at shutdown: "watchdog timeout: no checkins from watchdogd"
I have an iMac late 2012 with 24GB or RAM and 3 USB disks connected to it, all running time machine in sequence.
After updating to catalina, every time I shutdown the system it takes ages to shutdown and then after reaching the shutdown state,…
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Can you actually use Terminal to crash your computer?
People who don't understand Terminal are often afraid to use it for fear that they might mess up their command and crash their computer. Those who know Terminal better know that that's not the case - usually Terminal will just output an error. But…
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App crashes, dock icon remains, can't reboot, yet no process in ps aux to kill
I've been encountering an extremely annoying problem since I upgraded to Yosemite.
FCPX (but I've been having reports of this problem on other computers with finder.app and safari.app) sometimes will crash on exit (with no detectable log trace) and…
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How can I run newer Unity games on OS X 10.9 Mavericks?
Most games built with Unity 2018 and Unity 2019 do not work on Mac OS X 10.9. They will launch initially, and occasionally even get as far as the main menu, but invariably crash before entering gameplay.
Dyld Error Message:
Symbol not found:…
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XCode 6 on Yosemite crashing in fullscreen mode when build & running app on device
Xcode 6 on Yosemite crashes everytime when pressing Build&Run on Device.
Current window disappears and Start screen appears.
Anyone else experiencing this?
UPDATE:
As it seems Xcode is not crashing, but clicking "Run" triggers "close" and clicking…
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Avoiding all apps reopening when OS X crashes
Sometimes my computer will crash and restart due to unknown errors. It usually happens when I'm working on something so a few apps are open. OS X has this annoying feature where it tries to reopen all apps when you restart. You can disable it when…
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Constant kernel GPU panics (GPUPanic.cpp:127) on mid-2010 MacBook Pro (6,2)
Hardware is a mid 2010 MAcBook Pro 15", i7 2,66ghz, 8 GB RAM, 512 MB Video RAM.
I encounter regular kernel panics for a while now, I think since upgrading to Mavericks. Usually it used to happen every now and then, between once a week and once a…
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Xcode 8.2.1 crashes on opening project with array index out of bounds
I just upgraded to Xcode 8.2.1 and Xcode crashes every time I open my project with the following traceback. I verified that an older version of Xcode (8.1) can still open the project file. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Exception Type: …
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Mac keeps restarting with kernel panic "UPSB thunderbolt power on failed"
Does anyone know what could be causing this? Happening at least daily now, sometimes multiple times :(
Anonymous UUID: 9BD0D242-70AD-9DEC-BCA3-D8DCCE96A963
Sat Oct 6 09:25:04 2018
*** Panic Report ***
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff7f97c9c271):…
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Can someone help me read this crash report as a user?
How can I read a crash report to get an idea as to what happened?
Sample Sanitised Crash Report:
Process: SoftwareUpdateCheck [16198]
Path: /System/Library/CoreServices/Software…
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macOS Catalina watchdog timeout kernel panics
Ever since upgrading to Catalina, my MacBook Pro 2018 randomly freezes up completely. The screen will be completely frozen and the trackpad won't click anymore. After a minute or so, the fans blow very loud for a second and the system reboots. After…
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Google Chrome Helper Using Up Too Much Memory
Google Chrome Helper is appearing in Activity Monitor a dozen times and overall using a ton of memory. How do I curtail this? Most advice columns say to go to my plugins and check "Play on click", but Google updated the browser and this option is…
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Does the developer of a Mac OS X app get the crash reports when the app crashes?
If an app crashes while I'm using it in OS X I get a little (apparently) OS-driven dialog that lets me "report the crash to Apple". It sends along a stack trace and some other system information.
Does this crash information get shared with the app…
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Repeated crashes of 'suggestd'
I've been running OS X 10.11 without issues since it was released — until today, when suggestd began repeatedly crashing (from every few minutes, up to every 30 seconds).
What is suggestd and how do I disable it (since it's only function appears to…
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