Changes between Version 3 and Version 4 of BugReporting

Timestamp:

12/20/07 11:12:40 (5 years ago)

Author:

gbooker

Comment:

Curse my lousy spelling

BugReporting

@@ -3 +3 @@
  1. Examine the last part of the console.  On the AppleTV, you can execute {{{tail /Library/Logs/Console/501/console.log}}}.  On Leopard, open {{{/Applications/Utilities/Console.app}}}.  This is important even if it crashed, because it may have thrown an exception earlier in the code which caused the crash.
  1. If the console says that a crash log was written, examine that file.  The console tells you the location of this file.
-   a. If this file says that that it crashed due to an uncaught exception, there is no reason to post it, just the info form the console
+   a. If this file says that that it crashed due to an uncaught exception, there is no reason to post it, just the info from the console
  1. Prune the information.
    a. Console log information need only have data about exceptions, errors, and the like that came from Front Row (Finder on the AppleTV).