EXC_BAD_access code=2 address 0x8 - iphone

I have an app that I've been working on, which worked perfectly on iOS 6 in XCode 4.5, but now I downloaded XCode 5 with iOS 7 and get this error,
Thread 1: EXC_BAD_access code=2 address 0x8
in main.m :
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#import "TestAppDelegate.h"
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
#autoreleasepool {
return UIApplicationMain(argc, argv, nil, NSStringFromClass([TestAppDelegate class]));
}
}
I downloaded iOS 6 sdk and the code work perfect on iOS 6 sdk yet but with iOS 7 , i get this error , and I don't know why?
I try to debug this but get no information about the crash. I read something about zombies and enabled it by going to Product->Edit Schema->Diagnostic->Enable Zombie Object. But even after this I didn't get anything helpful.
Any pointers?

I'd like to expand on the tip given by Vinzzz but differing slightly (exception not symbolic breakpoint).
The problem here is that the program has stopping on an OS caught exception (bad access). You need to go one step earlier than this, to see the exception in code which would lead to an iOS exception. Go to the breakpoints tab on the left Xcode screen panel section (Breakpoint Navigator). Then at the bottom of the panel there should be a + sign. Click there and add an 'Exception Breakpoint'. Re-run your program and you should now be breakpointed when the problem is attempted to be introduced into the OS environment. This gives information about who and what is the cause.

When you get to the (lldb) prompt try to hit the continue button. That may reveal the underlying error message in the top of the debugger console. Look for the top of the bold text to see what possible object is causing the problem. This type of error usually refers to an attempt to access an object that has been deallocated.

I had this error too because in my user model class I had an extra object I declared as
var image = UIImage()
I didn't use it for that task I took it off from model class, my app didn't crashed I would check model class.

Related

signal SIGABRT Error when trying to run xcode 5.0 app

Sorry to ask, I have tried everything I have read online, but I keep getting the SIGABRT Error when I try to run an app.
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#import "AppDelegate.h"
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
#autoreleasepool {
return UIApplicationMain(argc, argv, nil, NSStringFromClass([AppDelegate class]));
}
}
Error code comes up beside the return UIApplicationMain(argc, argv, nil, NSStringFromClass([AppDelegate class]));
line.
The debugger just states
2013-10-18 10:29:45.270 Black History Month[733:c07] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSUnknownKeyException', reason: '[<UIApplication 0x903f770> setValue:forUndefinedKey:]: this class is not key value coding-compliant for the key view.'
*** First throw call stack:
(0x14a3052 0xea3d0a 0x14a2f11 0x9b3032 0x924f7b 0x924eeb 0x93fd60 0x23291a 0x14a4e1a 0x140e821 0x23146e 0x233010 0x1314a 0x13461 0x127c0 0x21743 0x221f8 0x15aa9 0x138dfa9 0x14771c5 0x13dc022 0x13da90a 0x13d9db4 0x13d9ccb 0x122a7 0x13a9b 0x2712 0x2685)
terminate called throwing an exception
I have tried producing a couple different apps and always get this error so cannot release, I have now tried a simple uiwebview app and the same thing keeps happening. I have tried running on many different deployement targets with no successful outcomes.
I have tried resetting the simulator, restarting both xcode the simulator, and computer multiple times, turned off auto layout for the xib file. No luck. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance
This has nothing to do with Xcode. Your application has thrown a run time exception. Since the exception is not caught anywhere it is poped upto main. Set an exception to All Breakpoint to figure out whats wrong. If your app worked in Xcode 4 then check the iOS deployment target. I suspect it has to do with iOS 7 which is default target in Xcode 5.
I also had this error. After spending so much time, I found how to fix it. First of all go the console and see where is the error (mine was related to storyboards and its code) The way I fixed my error was by going in story board. Below the iPhone screen, there will be small yellow button. Right click on it and you will see that is causing error. Delete(x) it if there is yellow error sign.
If this does not fix your error then try to make new project and then replace its blank files with old files of your old project. I had same error in very beginning and by doing this program run without any error.
Other people suggests by restarting your laptop and running it again, reseting the iOS simulator, or changing iOS debugger (however this does not work in latest x code since there is only one debugger)
Hope this helps
From the error message
[<UIApplication 0x903f770> setValue:forUndefinedKey:]: this class is
not key value coding-compliant for the key view.
one can see that you try to set the view property on an instance of UIApplication,
but UIApplication does not have a view property.
To find the point where the error occurs, set a breakpoint on
"All Objective-C Exceptions".
I also had this error. After spending so much time, I found how to fix it. First >of all go the console and see where is the error (mine was related to storyboards >and its code) The way I fixed my error was by going in story board. Below the >iPhone screen, there will be small yellow button. Right click on it and you will >see that is causing error. Delete(x) it if there is yellow error sign.
I would +1 Viraj's answer, but I don't have the reputation. I can verify that in a Swift project in X-Code 6, this solution works. My problem was:
My app ran great on the initial view controller and on the 2nd screen, but upon trying to load the third view controller, my app would crash and return the "SIGABRT" error.
The Fix was indeed to go to the screen where my app was crashing, right click on the yellow icon (which is ABOVE the view in my version of X Code). I had two IB Outlets assigned to views, which did not have connections to the code. I did not need them too (they were old), so I deleted both from within the Outlets inspector in the right sided attributes inspector.

SIGABRT error in Facebook iOS SDK 3.0 Tutorial

I am trying to complete the tutorial for the iOS SDK 3.0 from Facebook and I have an error in my main.m file.
The error says "Thread 1: Signal SIGABRT" on the "return" statement. This error pops up when I click the "login" button of my app when it initiates the Facebook Login Flow.
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#import "MMAppDelegate.h"
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
#autoreleasepool
{ return UIApplicationMain(argc, argv, nil, NSStringFromClass([MMAppDelegate class])); } }
For reference here is the link to the Facebook tutorial that I am following: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/tutorials/ios-sdk-tutorial/
Thanks so much - this error is a total drag.
It probably has nothing to do with main. One of the things about Xcode that is kind of dumb is that regardless of where the exception occurred, it will always report main as the cause.
A good trick in Xcode is to open the left navigator area and click the Breakpoint Navigator to get a list of your project's breakpoints. Then in the bottom left corner there is a + symbol. Click that and say "Add Exception Breakpoint". Make sure "All" and "On Throw" are selected and press "Done". This will cause the program to break at the actual line that threw the exception, rather than in main. Now you can debug the actual cause of your problem.

App crashes while loading with error in main.m

I'm trying to recover an app that I accidentally deleted and managed to do it through the organizer, however, now when I try to run it on the simulator or iphone, it crashes with an error popping up in the main.m file:
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
#autoreleasepool {
return UIApplicationMain(argc, argv, nil, NSStringFromClass([AppDelegate class]));
}
}
The error occurs in the "return UIApplicationMain(argc, argv, nil, NSStringFromClass([AppDelegate class]));" section of the file with the SIGABRT error. I am using Xcode 4.2 with ARC on. I am testing it on ios 4.3 and ios 5.0. The app was working before and in fact, is on the app store right now. Anything would help
If you look in the debugger it will probably tell you what caused the error. This has happened to me before, due to insufficient memory (too many items on screen at once). Either way, look at the target debugger for what caused the error.
Usually when I get similar errors is because there is a broken link on the Interface Builder. Maybe you've changed the name of an IBOutlet and forgot to connect it again.
If you are using Storyboards, make sure you haven't hooked up duplicate referencing outlets or reference outlets that aren't there anymore in your code. In other words, if you dragged from a button on your view controller to your code and then the property or method has changed at all, you can get this error.
happened to me, looked in the debugger and found it mentioned a name I given to an action, but deleted it after I created it both viewController .h and .m so for some reason that old action created with a different name, still lingered somewhere... so I copied my code and pasted it on a new prog. Of course, it was a very small one view app so it was easy...
I've seen this happen before if the following build settings are not there. OTHER_LDFLAGS = -ObjC -all_load
This is under Linking in the target.
Not sure what the error message is—that would be helpful. But are you importing AppDelegate.h?
It happened to me and all I did was changed the name of my image view and than changed it back later. But, I forgot to disconnect the other name after I deleted it. However, once I disconnected it from interface builder it worked.
Crashed with LLDP debugger I changed to GDB and then it worked.
I got stuck with this problem too but not all the time only 1/2 launch. Absolutely no error in the console no nothing, just a signal SIGARBT. My AppDelegate did not even went to didFinishLaunchingWithOptions. Changing the debugger back to GDB (Edit Scheme… > (Info tab) Debugger > LLDB) solved the problem.
To fix it, click on mainstoryboard i.e. Interface Builder, select the File Inspector tab, and uncheck Use autolayout.
Alternatively, you can target iOS 6.0+-only devices and change the minimum target, if you absolutely must have autolayout.
This problem occurs due to mismatch in versions of xcode and source of learning programs from.

How to debug iPhone applications

how can i debug applications for iPhone in Objective-C, XCode
i mean ok, XCode and debug mode is fine, but when my application crashes on
BAD_ACCES (or smth. smilliar) i just get the trace to assembly
when iam debugging C++ and lets say want to access an invalid pointer, i get a trace right to the line of code where everything crashed... here i just get a trace to many internal functions in assembly, so i dont have a clue what and where went wrong
probably some release / retain problem, but how can i find out?
thank you
Here we go with the full answer:
I've had a look at your app and I think there is a problem with the combination of the UINavigationController and asynchronous http loading in two places. Enabling the zombies did reveal those two errer. The first on I was able to reproduce, the seconds one popped up several times and then not any more.
*** -[DetailViewController respondsToSelector:]: message sent to deallocated instance 0x56d6030
*** -[SearchViewController respondsToSelector:]: message sent to deallocated instance 0x56daa10
I've just throttled my bandwidth to see if those errors are connected to http requests. Look at [Throttling Bandwidth On A Mac][1] to set up a slow connection. I set it to 5KBytes/sec.
The first error occurs if you go very quickyl down to the details and then two levels up again and as a last action to trigger the error: click on search. The stacktrace shows a
#2 0x004545b8 in -[UIWebView webView:decidePolicyForMIMEType:request:frame:decisionListener:]
and there are some threads open, so looking at the dropdown, there is a webThread. Showing that thread reveals something going on with the webview loading the detailPages url. This hints that the webiew actually finished loading in a seperate thread and wasn't able to connect back to the webview itself [DetailViewController respondsToSelector:]. This can be easily proofed: remove the loading of the request for the webview: I wasn't able to reproduce the error.
Solution problem 1
The problem is easily fixed, as the webview is not released in the dealloc. Setting delegates to nil of objects is also recommended, but not needed in this case.
- (void)dealloc {
webView.delegate = nil;
[webView release];
}
The second error
The stackTrace shows a
CLLocationManager onClientEventLocation:
Solution error
Same as error 1, set the delegate to nil and release the locationManager.
When your app crashes you cann open up the debugger in the left hand window you can see the stacktrace. You can double click any line which will jump to correct position in your code(if the called method is of yours).
Goto Project->Edit Active Executable->Arguments Tab
Add the Variable in the lower window by clicking on +
Name:NSZombieEnabled
Value:YES
This tries to resolve memory addresses to class names for bad excess errors.
To find out about memory leaks, open Run->Run with performance tool->Leaks. This will open up instruments which is a brillant tool to find leaks.
Are you using XCode 3? If so, I would highly advise upgrading to XCode 4. The debugger in XCode 4 is brilliant in comparison. It let's you step back through the code and see exactly what caused the crash.

Stack trace or more info on unhandled exception in Xcode/iPhone

Excuse my ignorance, but something's been bugging me about the Xcode debugger when running iPhone applications in the iPhone Simulator.
Sometimes, when I mess something up in Interface Builder, I get an unhandled exception at runtime and I get thrown back to Xcode. The only thing I see is a single line "uncaught exception" or something like that. From what I can see, there's no additional information, let alone a stack trace or anything else that's useful.
I have been developing in Visual Studio for the last decade or so, and I'm used to getting a nice stack trace and complete exception info when something like that happens.
I'm sure I'm simply missing something very obvious... Hopefully...
If you add two breakpoints, you should be able to debug these exceptions. To do this, go to Run | Show | Breakpoints and create two global breakpoints (I do them globally because they are so useful in all my applications). The first should be named "objc_exception_throw" and its location should be "libobjc.A.dylib". The second should be "-[NSException raise]" and its location should be "CoreFoundation".
Now, if you start debugging your application with breakpoints enabled, it should break on the throw of these exceptions. You should then be able to see the chain of events that led to the exception within the debugger.
The lack of a stack trace is usually indicative of a problem with LLDB (debugger). I love LLDB, but when it comes to showing stack traces and breaking on the exception rather than main in iOS apps, it's a pain in the ass and has been for a few releases now. No idea why Apple hasn't addressed this yet. To fix it is a two-step process:
Edit your current scheme and under the "Run" tab change the debugger from LLDB to GDB.
Go to https://developer.apple.com/bugreporter/ and report the bug so Apple addresses it.
Hey activa - for more information about runtime exceptions, you should be able to open the debugger console and see more information. I assume you've already done that, but just in case - you can get to it by selecting Run -> Console from the menu. I'm not sure why it doesn't come up automatically!
You can wrap your UIApplicationMain in a try/catch:
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
int retVal;
NSAutoreleasePool * pool;
#try
{
pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
retVal = UIApplicationMain(argc, argv, nil, nil);
}
#catch(NSException* e)
{
NSLog(#"%#", e.reason);
}
#finally
{
[pool release];
}
return retVal;
}
You should also look up into setting an assertion handler while debugging: NSAssertionHandler.
Update:
and also the unhandled exception handler: NSSetUncaughtExceptionHandler