Getting to the bottom of crash

Question

I have the following crash that I can't replicate on demand but does happen enough to get noticed by the users.

This crash report has been symbolicated as well. How would you find out the cause!!! This only seems to happen on 4.1

Exception Type:  SIGSEGV
Exception Codes: SEGV_ACCERR at 0x9f069184
Crashed Thread:  0

Thread 0 Crashed:
0   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x000027d8 objc_msgSend + 16
1   CoreFoundation                      0x0007d749 ____CFXNotificationPost_old_block_invoke_1 + 45
2   libSystem.B.dylib                   0x000d5984 _dispatch_call_block_and_release + 20
3   libSystem.B.dylib                   0x000d66b0 _dispatch_continuation_pop + 72
4   libSystem.B.dylib                   0x000d69fc _dispatch_main_queue_callback_4CF + 220
5   CoreFoundation                      0x0002789b __CFRunLoopRun + 1335
6   CoreFoundation                      0x00027277 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 231
7   CoreFoundation                      0x0002717f CFRunLoopRunInMode + 59
8   GraphicsServices                    0x000045f3 GSEventRunModal + 115
9   GraphicsServices                    0x0000469f GSEventRun + 63
10  UIKit                               0x00004123 -[UIApplication _run] + 403
11  UIKit                               0x0000212f UIApplicationMain + 671
12  MyApp                               0x000024e3 main (main.m:17)

I have since managed to get a little more info, but not much.

2012-02-12 18:03:04.556 MyApp[462:307] (null): unrecognized selector sent to class 0x3e0a360c
2012-02-12 18:03:04.618 MyApp[462:307] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '(null): unrecognized selector sent to class 0x3e0a360c'
*** Call stack at first throw:
(
    0   CoreFoundation                      0x33506ed3 __exceptionPreprocess + 114
    1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x30412811 objc_exception_throw + 24
    2   CoreFoundation                      0x335086ff +[NSObject(NSObject) doesNotRecognizeSelector:] + 102
    3   CoreFoundation                      0x334b01d9 ___forwarding___ + 508
    4   CoreFoundation                      0x334aff90 _CF_forwarding_prep_0 + 48
    5   Foundation                          0x302a86b3 _nsnote_callback + 142
    6   CoreFoundation                      0x334e4749 ____CFXNotificationPost_old_block_invoke_1 + 44
    7   libSystem.B.dylib                   0x31d05984 _dispatch_call_block_and_release + 20
    8   libSystem.B.dylib                   0x31d066b0 _dispatch_continuation_pop + 72
    9   libSystem.B.dylib                   0x31d069fc _dispatch_main_queue_callback_4CF + 220
    10  CoreFoundation                      0x3348e89b __CFRunLoopRun + 1334
    11  CoreFoundation                      0x3348e277 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 230
    12  CoreFoundation                      0x3348e17f CFRunLoopRunInMode + 58
    13  GraphicsServices                    0x31b5e5f3 GSEventRunModal + 114
    14  GraphicsServices                    0x31b5e69f GSEventRun + 62
    15  UIKit                               0x341bd123 -[UIApplication _run] + 402
    16  UIKit                               0x341bb12f UIApplicationMain + 670

Now all of my addObservers are block based so I can't see why it would lead to an unrecognised selector.

Answer 1

This way won't help us much while Debugging crash. I found one of the best way to Debug the code for Crash. Follow the link for debugging technique:

https://cocoadev.com/DebuggingAutorelease.html

You need to analyze your Console very carefully to see actually why the Crash occurs. This helped me in almost all of the Code that are without ARC enabled.